No Chains on Me
A fast-paced blend of opera aria, power metal, sadcore, and Maori tribal, launching with sparse, reverb-soaked electric guitar and raspy male vocals. Syncopated drums, distorted guitars, and rising choir harmonies build to a hair rock peak with piercing leads, agile tempo shifts, and thick vocal layers. Maori chanting pulses beneath bluesy, expressive guitar leads and a melancholic, delay-heavy choir outro; dramatic, dynamic, and relentless. Deep bass male raspy vocals. Vibrato.
No Chains on Me
A fast-paced blend of opera aria, power metal, sadcore, and Maori tribal, launching with sparse, reverb-soaked electric guitar and raspy male vocals. Syncopated drums, distorted guitars, and rising choir harmonies build to a hair rock peak with piercing leads, agile tempo shifts, and thick vocal layers. Maori chanting pulses beneath bluesy, expressive guitar leads and a melancholic, delay-heavy choir outro; dramatic, dynamic, and relentless. Deep bass male raspy vocals. Vibrato.
Lyrics
Intro - chant
Aaaahhh, aahhh
(Aaaahhh, aahhh)
Verse 1
I walk in daylight, no shadow on my name,
The streets forget me, but the blood’s the same.
Every siren sings, but it’s never for me,
I’m a ghost in the system, set quietly free.
Pre-Chorus
But my hands still shake,
And my heart won’t pray,
Every mirror I break
Shows the price I won’t pay.
Chorus 1
No chains on me, but I’m bound inside
(you can’t run, you can’t hide)
Carrying the truth I can’t hide
(the weight you tried to deny)
No judge, no cell, no gallows tree
(justice lost, but haunting me)
Still the sinner lives in me
(still the sinner lives in me…)
Verse 2
I kissed forgiveness, but the taste was ash,
I bought salvation, but I paid in cash.
Every deal I made left another scar,
I can’t run from myself, I know who you are.
Pre-Chorus
And the silence screams,
Like a choir of bones,
Every night I dream
That the crime still owns.
Chorus 2
No chains on me, but I’m bound inside
(freedom’s just another lie)
Carrying the truth I can’t hide
(it burns, it tears, it won’t die)
No judge, no cell, no gallows tree
(no law can set you free)
Still the sinner lives in me
(still the sinner lives in me…)
Break - electric guitar solo
Verse 3
The walls are cracked, the glass bleeds red,
A thousand voices in my head.
They sing of fire, they sing of pain,
But in their echoes I remain.
Pre-Chorus
But my hands still shake,
And my heart won’t pray,
Every mirror I break
Shows the price I won’t pay.
Final Chorus
No chains on me, but I’m bound inside
(you can’t run, you can’t hide)
Carrying the truth I can’t hide
(the weight you tried to deny)
No judge, no cell, no gallows tree
(justice lost, but haunting me)
Still the sinner lives in me
(still the sinner lives in me…)
(…and the sinner is me…)
Bridge – atmospheric, dissonant
Light falls down, but it doesn’t cleanse,
Grace runs out where the mercy ends.
I walk free, but I’ll never be whole,
I’m the jailer and I’m the soul.
Outro – fading guitar echoes, whispered
No chains…
No chains…
But I’m not free.
Aaaahhh, aahhh
(Aaaahhh, aahhh)
End