Chained (STUDIO COVER)

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 on oneself wil be erased as well as total forgiveness 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’.

LYRICS

CHAINED

By:ELTON HENDRIX

813-810-4192

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

TAKE AND RELEASE ME FROM THESE CHAINS, AND LET ME LIVE ONCE AGAIN

I DON T KNOW HOW IT EVER CAME TO THIS

BUT I CANNOT WIN IF I AM CHAINED HERE

TAKE THESE ARMS AND LET THEM LEAVE, TAKE THIS SOUL AND LET IT BREATH

TAKE MY EYES AND LET THEM SEE

AND SAVE ME AND SAVE ME FROM THIS DROWNING  SEA

FOR I CANNOT WIN WHILE I AM CHAINED HERE

TAKE MY HEART AND MAKE IT WHOLE , TAKE FROM MY HEAD THESE DREAMS I STOLE
AND THESE WINGS, MAKE THEM FLY AGAIN

AND DON T SHOW ME WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN
JUST SAVE ME, SAVE ME FROM THESE TEARS THAT CHAIN THE NIGHT
FOR I CANNOT WIN WHEN I AM CHAINED HERE

TAKE MY FEET AND LEAD THEM HOME ,TAKE MY HANDS AND LEAVE THEM TO MOURN

TAKE MY VIENS AND LET THEM BLEED
BUT SAVE ME , SAVE ME FROM THESE CHAINS THAT STEAL THE NIGHT

FOR I CANNOT WIN ,WHEN I AM CHAINED HERE
I CANNOT WIN
WHEN I AM CHAINED HERE

TAKE AND RELEASE ME FROM THESE CHAINS, AND LET ME LOVE ONCE AGAIN
I DON T KNOW HOW , IT EVER CAME TO THIS

BUT I CANNOT WIN WHILE I AM CHAINED HERE

I CANNOT WIN WHEN I AM CHAINED HERE.