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Weightless Chain
album cover
Weightless Chain was released on July 1, 2026 by Shades of Life as a part of the album Life Less than Zero
ReleasedJuly 1, 2026
LabelShades of Life
LanguageEnglish
BPM125
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Lyrics

The gates swung open in the sunlight
The road stretched wide before my feet
The sky looked larger than I remembered
The air tasted strangely sweet
People called it freedom's morning
The ending of a long dark reign
Yet somewhere underneath the silence
I still could hear a chain
Not around my hands or ankles
Not hanging cold from iron bars
But hidden in forgotten corners
Between my memories and scars
The body left the prison
The prison left more slowly
This is the weightless chain
The burden no one sees
A shadow walking beside me
In every gentle breeze
The weightless chain
Invisible but real
Forged from years of waiting
Forged from wounds that never healed
And though the lock has broken
Though the walls have passed away
Part of me still listens
For the sound of yesterday
I found myself pausing at open doors
Looking over my shoulder at night
Flinching at ordinary noises
Measuring every wrong and right
The world moved on without permission
The seasons changed their names
Yet certain parts of me remained
Inside those old prison frames
Friends spoke about the future
While I was learning how to stand
Trying to understand a freedom
I could finally hold in hand
Some chains are made of iron
Some chains are made of fear
The hardest ones to break apart
Are the ones we carry here
This is the weightless chain
The burden no one sees
A shadow walking beside me
In every gentle breeze
The weightless chain
Invisible but real
Forged from years of waiting
Forged from wounds that never healed
And though the lock has broken
Though the walls have passed away
Part of me still listens
For the sound of yesterday
But healing is a patient river
It does not rush the stone
It teaches broken places
How to become a home
Perhaps freedom is not given
The moment gates unlock
Perhaps freedom is a journey
Measured step by step and thought by thought
And maybe every scar remembered
Can become a map instead
Leading me away from darkness
Rather than back to it
This is the weightless chain
And I no longer run
For every wound it represents
Reminds me what I've overcome
The weightless chain
No longer my disguise
No longer my prison
No longer my eyes
The memories remain
But they no longer reign
The scars remain
But they no longer chain
And slowly
Through grace and time
The weightless chain
Becomes a line
In a story I survived
The gate opened
The world welcomed me back
The chains disappeared
Almost
Yet freedom taught me one final lesson
The last prison to unlock
Lives inside the soul
And that key
Is made of healing.
Written by: Sykology

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