From the recording The Adventures of iLLa The Sleeping Giant- Past, Present, Future: Volume 1
"Stuck in these Chains"
A raw look at addiction's cycle—using drugs, sex, or pills to numb life's pain, only to forge heavier links in the chain. The real tragedy is passing those binds to the ones you love. This is the urgent call to break your chains before you shackle the next generation.
Lyrics
Stuck In These Chains LYRICS:
[intro]
I was like Oh well,
Nobody really cares,
Hoped it be different,
Cause I've been searching all my days
Been praying crazy wide awake
Someone, come save me, crying for better days
[Verse 1]
If you speak it in any other language,
And hurt still turned hearts cold,
Trying to find another way
To mend this broken soul,
And you think the reasons in,
The reasons in that COKE.
Now you gave a reason to,
Addicted to your soul.
[Pre-Chorus]
Hoping for a time, I can find someone to trust,
Cause I don't trust nobody,
Why I can't trust nobody?
Mess up on them drugs, I can't find no one to love,
So I don't love nobody,
Why I can't love nobody?
[Chorus]
Stuck in these chains!
Anybody with some love,
Please come save me
(Please come save me)
Stuck in these chains!
Anybody understands,
Please come pray for me,
(Please come pray for me)
Who can deliver us from Chains?
(Choir Yahshua)
Who can deliver us from these Chains?
(Oh Lord)
Who can deliver us from Chains?
(Choir Oh Yahshua)
Who can deliver us from these Chains?
(Choir Oh Yahshua)
[Verse 2]
Broke days, in the projects made me hateful,
was getting crazy, every time I seen that paper,
By any means, that's the way my city raised us.
I was buck trucking over anybody that stood in my way.
When I was just a youngster, I was a lost cause,
Nobody really want me, so I broke my hat off.
Watch my homie knock a block off with a sawed-off
Had my nerves burning hot, y'all, like some hot sauce.
I knew there was a God, cause I was working for the devil,
Trying to drown my demons with that Hennessy and swishers
But they be swimming,
Pray that all of heaven's listening
Hoping that my suffering has purpose for God's missions.
Moe chains, Moe chain!
I'm sick of being thecause of all my pain.
Lord, if you hear me, I'll change if you promise to deliver me
Give me Give me a better way
[Pre-Chorus]
Hoping for a time, I can find someone to trust,
Cause I don't trust nobody,
Why I can't trust nobody?
Mess up on them drugs, I can't find no one to love,
So I don't love nobody,
Why I can't love nobody?
[Chorus]
Stuck in these chains!
Anybody with some love,
Please come save me
(Please come save me)
Stuck in these chains!
Anybody understands,
Please come pray for me,
(Please come pray for me)
Who can deliver us from Chains?
(Choir Yahshua)
Who can deliver us from these Chains?
(Oh Lord)
Who can deliver us from Chains?
(Choir Oh Yahshua)
Who can deliver us from these Chains?
(Choir Oh Yahshua)
[Bridge]
Man, can't you see it? It's all on the TV.
The world's getting worse now.
(The world's getting worse and worse now)
Darkness is what's in, and light ain't accepted,
And every dark door is open now.
No rules!
Hocus pocus, fill you up with potions,
Drugs, hate, movies, and this music.
it be boiling, in a cauldron, make you want it.
Then they wonder why these kids shootin schools up.
It's so messed up, when you think about what you could've done so different,
Before tragedy hit your crib, it made you see the truth.
all your wrongs, you'll wish you'd dealt with them way back then...
Don't pass down your chains!
[intro]
I was like Oh well,
Nobody really cares,
Hoped it be different,
Cause I've been searching All My Days
Been Praying Crazy, Wide Awake
Someone Come Save Me, Crying For Better Days!
Who can deliver us from Chains?
(Choir Yahshua)
Who can deliver us from these Chains?
(Oh Lord)
Who can deliver us from Chains?
(Yahshua)
Who can deliver us from these Chains?
(Oh Yahshua)
Who can deliver us?
Who can deliver us?
Who can deliver us?
Who can deliver us from Chains?
(Yahshua)
Who can deliver us from these Chains?
(Oh Yahshua)