Chains
Keep me from you
Keep me from life
Keep me from love

Chains
Hold me back
Hold my tongue
Hold my heart

Chains
Around my brain
Around my soul
Around my feelings

Chains
Are a part of me
Are a part of love
Are a part of life

Chains
Are depression
Are bipolar disorder
Are anxiety

Chains
Are mental illnesses

Chains
Around brains
Forced to be lived with
Forced to be reckoned with

Chains
Inside us
Holding us back
From anything considered normal

Chains
Too tight that they break us
Until there is only ashes to rise from

Chains
Some of us never rise from the ashes

Chains
Some of us never break them
Some of us are stuck in the chains forever