Chained

Chained (Behind the song)

What a terrible thing it is to be chained. We have all see the dramatic presentation of black slaves chained, Jewish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps along with constant dehumanized treatment. It has sadly been a treatment meted out to any innocent group or nationality that those in control dominate. But there are also other chains that are not so visible, chains that hold captive their victims as well. Catastrophic events in life create chains that become even harder to be released than literal chains. Children abused physically and sexually are chained to the horrible terrors that those treatments produced. Soldiers are chained to the catastrophic events of war that embed in their memories the unspeakable  destruction of other human beings including ones they were close to and seeing death all around them. We find them chained to what we call  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). These sad chains hold a relentless grip on it’s prisoners. The song, ‘Chained’ asks for a return to normal with the words , “Let me live (and love) once again” and “take these wings and make them fly again”. Will life ever return to normal? According to psychologists sustained abuse over years and intense catastrophic events never completely heal to a return to normal. So is there ever any hope to a return to normal and an enjoyment of life free of these memories as the songs pleads for. These comforting words give hope, “For look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be called to mind, Nor will they come up into the heart”—Isaiah 65:17.  Not only that but an enjoyment of  a life of endless longevity in peace , harmony and Love as Titus 1:2 offers “a hope of the everlasting life that God, who cannot lie, promised long ago”. The guilt that one unjustly heaps one oneself wil be erased as well total forgiveness too for all other mistakes that one has made.  These painful years and memories will be forgotten and dwarfed by an endless life of happy times on an earth changed to a global paradise..  These are the ideas behind the song ‘Chained’.