The Chain
Fleetwood Mac * Track #7 On Rumours
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The Chain by Fleetwood Mac
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Fleetwood MacWrited by
John McVie & Christine McVie & Stevie Nicks & Mick Fleetwood & Lindsey BuckinghamAbout
“The Chain” is a Fleetwood Mac anthem and one of their best-known songs.
“The Chain” is the bond that keeps the relationship going and never-ending. It can also be seen as the chain that keeps the band together; linking the members together in ways that don’t allow them to truly part ways. Written...
The Chain Lyrics
[Intro: Lindsey Buckingham]
(Fuck)
[Verse 1: Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks]
Listen to the wind blow
Watch the sun rise
Run in the shadows
Damn your love, damn your lies
[Chorus: Lindsey Buckingham, Both, Stevie Nicks]
And if you don't love me now
You will never love me again
I can still hear you sayin'
You would never break the chain
(Never break the chain)
And if you don't love me now
(You don't love me now)
You will never love me again
I can still hear you sayin' (Still hear you saying)
You would never break the chain
(Never break the chain)
[Verse 2: Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks]
Listen to the wind blow
Down comes the night
Run in the shadows
Damn your love, damn your lies
Break the silence
Damn the dark, damn the light
[Chorus: Lindsey Buckingham, Both, Stevie Nicks]
And if you don't love me now
You will never love me again
I can still hear you sayin'
You would never break the chain
(Never break the chain)
And if you don't love me now
(You don't love me now)
You will never love me again
I can still hear you sayin' (Still hear you saying)
You would never break the chain
(Never break the chain)
And if you don't love me now
(You don't love me now)
You will never love me again
I can still hear you sayin' (Still hear you saying)
You would never break the chain
(Never break the chain)
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Outro: Both, Lindsey Buckingham]
Chain keep us together
Run in the shadow
Chain keep us together
Runnin' in the shadow
Chain keep us together
Runnin' in the shadow
Chain keep us together
Run in the shadow
Chain keep us together
Run in the shadow
Chain
The Chain Q&A
Who wrote The Chain's ?
The Chain was written by John McVie & Christine McVie & Stevie Nicks & Mick Fleetwood & Lindsey Buckingham.
Who produced The Chain's ?
The Chain was produced by Ken Caillat & Richard Dashut & Fleetwood Mac.
When did Fleetwood Mac release The Chain?
Fleetwood Mac released The Chain on Fri Feb 04 1977.
What did Fleetwood Mac say about "The Chain"?
Per Lindsey Buckingham in The Rolling Stone Magazine
The ending was the only thing left from (McVie’s) original track; we ended calling it “The Chain” because it was a bunch of pieces
How did Stevie Nicks' lyrics come about?
As documented by Rolling Stone, drummer Mick Fleetwood told Lucky 98 FM:
Originally we had no words to it, and it really only became a song when Stevie wrote some. She walked in one day and said, ‘I’ve written some words that might be good for that thing you were doing in the studio the other day.’...
What has producer Kevin Caillat said about the song?
Caillat told Music Radar:
The very first song we worked on. It began as one of Christine’s things, something called ‘Keep Me There.’ I remember Richard and I almost got fired while trying to record it because we spent five days on drum sounds – the band thought we were clueless.
They ran through i...
What has the media said about the song?
Rolling Stone named it the #5 greatest Fleetwood Mac song, saying:
Side Two of Rumours opens with a tortuously pastiched collaboration that remains the only song in the band’s history on which all five members of Fleetwood Mac are credited as songwriters. Though the song was built from a handful of...