Breaking The Chains

Album: Breaking The Chains (1981)
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  • Sit there thinking in your room
    You feel the pressure
    You're goin' crazy too
    The walls around you closin' in
    You need a change

    Claustrophobic feeling scared
    You need somebody
    But no one seems to care
    A one way ticket, a change of pace
    You've had enough
    Can't take no more

    Breaking the chains around you
    Nobody else can bind you
    Take a good look around you
    Now you're breaking the chains

    Got this letter, came today
    From my baby who left me yesterday
    Said she loves me, she'll come back
    She wants to try

    I won't let her, she'll be upset
    I know it's better than something I'll regret
    She's been dishonest and insincere
    I lost my mind twenty times a year

    Breaking the chains around me
    Nobody else can bind me
    Take a good look around me
    Now I'm breaking the chains

    Woke up today, I'm alone
    I look around, but baby, you were gone
    But I don't mind and I don't worry
    I will survive

    I'm alone now that you're gone
    Don't need nobody
    To hold or tie me down
    I broke the chains
    So let me be, I've gotta be free

    Breaking the chains around me
    Nobody else can bind me
    Take a good look around me
    Now I'm breaking the chains

    Breaking the chains around me
    Nobody else can bind me
    Take a good look around me
    Now I'm breaking the chains Writer/s: Don Dokken, George Lynch, Mick Brown
    Publisher: NEXT DECADE ENTERTAINMENT,INC.
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  • Dan Gillespy from Courtenay BcThis song proves that Dokken is a good band.
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