You better love loving and you better behave
You better love loving and you better behave
Woman in chains
Woman in chains

Calls her man the great white hope
Says she's fine, she'll always cope
Ohh, woman in chains
Woman in chains

Well I feel lying and waiting is a poor man's deal (a poor man's deal)
And I feel hopelessly weighed down by your eyes of steel (your eyes of steel)
Well it's a world gone crazy
Keeps woman in chains

Oh oh oh oh oh
Woman in chains
Woman in chains

Trades her soul as skin and bones
Sells the only thing she owns, oh oh
Woman in chains
Woman in chains

Men of stone
Men of stone
Oh, no no no

Well I feel
Deep in your heart there are wounds time can't heal
And I feel
Somebody somewhere is trying to breathe
Well you know what I mean
It's a world gone crazy
Keeps woman in chains

It's under my skin but out of my hands
I'll tear it apart but I won't understand
I will not accept the greatness of man

It's a world gone crazy
Keeps a woman in chains
Gone crazy, keeps woman in chains

So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her


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    Ok, this song is about a woman thinking that she needs to give everyone everything, (Trades her soul as skin and bone -Sells the only thing she owns") and she's in denial because she thinks that it's not hurting her....yet, she's a woman in chains. And i guess someone is noticing it, and he sees that ..."And I feel somebody somewhere is trying to breathe." That's what i get from it. It's such a great song....

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