Standard (EADGBE)

Your hunger after money

You're pandering to greed

The things you don’t require

You kid yourself you need

Chorus

Neglect the flower of love, give your worship to the weed

 Your just adding links to a long and heavy chain

The selfishness that drives

So much of what you do

That fixes your attention

Completely up on you

Chorus

Your record is to take away much more than is your due

 Your just adding links to a long and heavy chain

That heavy chain gets longer all the time

What should be easy going

Turns into a mountain climb

That heavy chain gets heavier, day by day

It keeps you anchored to the ground so that

Your heart can't fly a way

The whiskey and the women

You use to blow your mind

Are deadly on their own

And double deadly when combined

They satisfy your senses but they leave your soul behind

 Your just adding links to a long and heavy chain

That heavy chain gets longer all the time

What should be easy going

Turns into a mountain climb

That heavy chain gets heavier, day by day

It keeps you anchored to the ground so that

 Your heart can't fly a way

Solo

 That heavy chain gets longer all the time

What should be easy going

Turns into a mountain climb

That heavy chain gets heavier, day by day

It keeps you anchored to the ground so that

 Your heart can't fly a way

Your hunger after money

The whiskey and the women

It’s a long and heavy chain

Such a long and heavy chain

(Fade Out)