Chain Around My Neck

Dan Bern

Everything I've ever done's gone belly up or bust

Don't ask you to believe me now I don't deserve your trust

Just let me prove to you that I'm a new man, I gone straight

Next time that I see you let's pretend it's our first date

I looked into my past and I don't much like what I see

A chain around my neck of things that I don't want to be

A chain around my neck of lies and bitterness and pride

A chain that doesn't let you see the man I am inside



Chain around my neck

Can't move this way or that way

A train that jumped its track

It don't let me move forward

It don't let me move back

Chain around my neck



If you left me now, no one could say that you were wrong

But my life is a place where I am certain you belong

I know that our love can be as solid as a rock

All I need is one more chance baby to unlock

This chain around my neck...



Each link on the chain is choking

But each link on the chain can be broken

Each link takes your love away from me

But only your love can set me free



From this chain around my neck...