In These Chains

I’m in these chains

 

I look out from these gates

Ashamed of what I’ve been made

These chains on my feet

Causin’ me to bleed

Well, I was born here

Through the cracks in these walls I peer

I want to be free, I want to be free!

 

I am a slave

In bondage I lay

I’m in these chains

This is my fate

 

The warden came

Gave me the key to these chains

Now free from the brace I make my escape

There, a master was waiting

The land of the free enslaved me

I want to be free, I want to be free!

 

I am a slave

In bondage I lay

I’m in these chains

This is my fate

 

There’s a statue in the east

Lady Liberty

Her torch was bright, now tarnished and green

How can I be free, from the chains, and my fate, and these gates, oh I yearn to get paid but for now I’m a slave…

 

I am a slave

In bondage I lay

I’m in these chains

This is my fate

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“Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.adBut collect for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:19-21 HCSB).

 

“Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1 HCSB).