Letra Chains K.S. Rhoads

Chains

And then I rose to the top of the world and I saw that I was blessed,
I saw that it was built on the backs of the poor and the oppressed,
I saw this endless spinning of ending up back at the beginning,
of headlong races to where we sat.
But oh, the places we could go if the world was flat.

And I was tired and defeated with nothing turned out as I thought,
but if I always do what I've always done then I'll only get what I always got.
I saw the masses yawning stolen breaths that they might breathe the next,
Tall drinks, queen ants, and half-masked cigarettes.

The same lives, the same pain lay like embers in the rain.
I saw all things invisible that bind me but lady luck was smiling,
or was that the guy behind me?
Green and brown grows with the seed.
Take me but don't ever wake me.

You wanna be free
You wanna be free
You wanna be free
Why are you living in chains?
You wanna be free
You wanna be free
You wanna be free
Why are you living in chains?

You're living in chains
You're living in-

And I saw my supposed enemy, but I looked exactly like him,
I saw the boat sinking so I got out and learned how to swim,
I saw the sorrow of the centuries, and suffered smoke from the stacks,
I saw bullets being buried in our old man's backs.
I saw the poetry of the prophet but they wallpapered over, it they did,
The same word ten years ago on the back of my eyelids.
I saw tax collectors as national protectors,
Tables being turned, bullets being burned,
and bodies washing in from the sea

You wanna be free
You wanna be free
You wanna be free
Why are you living in chains?
You could change into a bird
With nothing but a word
You wanted to be free
Why are you living in chains?

You wanna be free
You wanna be free
You wanna be free
Why are you living in chains?

You wanna be free
You wanna be free
You wanna be free
Why are you living in chains?
[repeat to fade]