The way you move
Has got me yearning
The way you move
Has left me burning
I know you know what you're doing to me
I know my hands will never be free
I know what it's like to be in chains

The way you move
Is meant to haunt me
The way you move
To tempt and taunt me
I know you knew on the day you were born
I know somehow I should've been warned
I know I walk every midnight to dawn
In chains

You've got me dying for you
It's you that I'm living through
You've got me reaching for you
You've got me singing to you
Anything you ask me to

Oh

The way you move
Is mesmerizing
The way you move
It's hypnotizing

I know I crumble when you are around
Start to mumble a bit of a false sound
Stagger, stumble, shackled and bound
In chains

In chains
In chains
I'm in chains

In chains, I'm in chains
In chains, I'm in chains
In chains, I'm in chains

In chains, I'm in chains


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In Chains Lyrics as written by Martin Gore

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    As a sub, I definitely relate this song to BDSM.

    "The way you move Is meant to haunt me The way you move To tempt and taunt me"

    is, the way I see it, about his Mistress (Or Master, for that matter) and how amazingly attractive and sexy she is.

    "The way you move Is mesmerizing The way you move It's hypnotizing"

    How he can't take his eyes off her and her beautiful body.

    "You've got me singing to you, Bringing to you anything you ask me to"

    As a good sub, servant or slave, one does as one's Dom says.

    It's easy to see the BDSM references if you actually know what BDSM really is like.

    He says he's in chains, which is self-explanatory.

    MjauZion July 25, 2009   Link

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