Chains Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Em]
[C][A]
[C]

[Verse 1]
And then [C]I rose
to the top of the [Em]world
And I saw that I was blessed
[G]I saw that it was built o[Em]n the bac[C]ks
of the poor and the oppressed
I saw this [G]endless spin[A]ning
[Em]Of ending up back at t[A]he beginning
[D]Of [G]headlong races [C]to where we sat
But oh, the places we could go
if the world [G]was flat
[Em]And I was tired and defeated
With nothing [G]turned out as I [C]thought
But if [Em]I always do[C] what
I've always done
Then I only get [G]what I al[A]ways got
[Em]I saw the masses yawning sto[A]len breaths
That [G]they might [C]breathe the next
Tall drinks, queen ants,
and half -mast cigar[G]ettes
[Em]The same lives, the same pain
Lay like embers in the rain
[D]I saw all things invisible that b[Bm]ind me
When Lady Luck was smiling
It was that the guy behind me
Green and brown girls of the sea
[B]Take me, but don't ever wake me
You wanna be [Em]free
You wanna be [G]free
You wanna be [A]free
Why are you living in [C]chains?
You wanna be [Em]free
You wanna be [G]free
You wanna be [A]free
Why are you living in [C]chains?
You're living in [Am]chain[C]s
[G]You're living in...
And I [Em]saw my supposed enemy
But I looked exactly [G]like [A]him
[C]I saw the boat sinking
So I got out and learned how to [Em]swim
[A]I saw the sorrow of the centuries
[Em]And saw first smoke [G]from the stack[C]s
I saw bullets being buried
[Em]in our old man's [C]backs
I [Em]saw the poetry of the prophet
But they wallpapered over it, they [D]did
The same words written years ago
on the back of my eyelids
[Bm]I saw tax collectors as
national protectors
Tables be[B]ing turned,
books being burned
And bodies washing in from the sea
[Em]You free
You wanna be [G]free
You wanna be [A]free
Why are you living in [C]chains?
You could change it [Em]so bad
We're nothing but [G]a worm
You want to [A]be free
Why are you living in [C]chains?[D#][D#m]
[Em][G][A][B]
[Em][G][A][B]
You wanna [Em]be free, you wanna [G]be free
You wanna be [A]free,
why are you living in [C]chain[D#]s?[D#m][G#m]
You want to be [B]free, you want to be free
[C#]While you're living in chain[D#]s
You want to be [G#m]free, you want to be [B]free
You want to be [C#]free,
while you're living in [D#]chains
You wanna be [G#m]free, you wanna [B]be free,
you wanna be [C#]free,
why are you living in [D#]shame?
You wanna be [G#m]free, you wanna [B]be free,
you wanna be [C#]free