"Chains"

I recently ran across my note on "Chains" that I wrote about back in March, and reading the lyrics again made me realize that the structure of the song matches its theme in a way.

The first part of the song establishes that the verses start with just the word "Chains," but later, the bridges elide into the verses:  "But, darling, I'm imprisoned by these // Chains" and "But I can't break away from all of these // Chains."  The sections of the song are now bound together semantically, just as the narrator is bound metaphorically.