(Long I forge a link in the chain
From all the iron we've laid
I forge a link in the chain
We'll be together again
Long wait, a link in the chain
Holds us beneath our own weight
I know this link in the chain
Binds us together again
One more link in the chain
Waits for me at the
End of days, a link in the chain
All day, and over again)

I carry it on the way I go
I drag it behind my tired soul
(let the rain fall)
It moans and it shakes you to your bones
(let the earth shake)
It rattles to prove mistakes I've made

But quick as you turn your back to me
I'll be watching over you
I wait and I wait for this to pass
But oh Lord, it never goes, oh, it goes

(So I bend and break and forge another link in the chain
It takes us to walk down the path to the lake
I will bend and break another link in the chain
It dips our heads under the tide and the waves)

Let the rain fall
Let the earth shake
Let the rain fall

I'm gonna build a tower
I'm gonna build it straight
I'm gonna build a tower
Up to Heaven's gate

I'm gonna dig a tunnel
I'm gonna carve a cave
I'm gonna dig a tunnel
And It'll be my grave

(It's all coming out, it's all coming out...)
And begs you please you burry it all I know, I know
You won't give up what you've lost
It eats you alive, oh, it ruptures your heart
And the blood comes gushing out

I forge a link in the chain

(I bend and I break another link in the chain
And we've wrought all the pain, another link in the chain)
I carry it on the way I go
Does it run red down your throat?
I carry it on the way I go
Does it stain your tattered clothes?
Oh, Heaven will know the place I go
Does it leave you on its own?
Oh, Heaven will know the place I go
Does it shoulder your sorrow?

I forge a link in the chain
Binds us together again