Love Is A Chain - Greg Brown

If you’re free, stay free.

If ya ain’t free, git free.

But if ya' can’t git free, join me All my life I been bound in the chains of love.

An' I said to myself I would leave

Said I gonna travel an' just do as I please

An' I stood with my back to you, darlin'

An' we both ended up on our knees.

Love is a chain,

Love is a chain

Though I try to fly

Off through the sky

But here I remain.

Many times I have gone to the depot

Jus' to listen to the departure times

I was thinkin' of all the places I would love to go An' gonnaleave everything behind.

Ah, but I know I could go to the moon,

To the cold side where everything is dark

But I’d still see your face before me An' I would still say your name in my heart.

'Cause…