## Metadata
**Caption:** soul pop, gospel-tinged vocal, orchestral backing, mid-tempo, 100 bpm, male vocal
**BPM:** 125
**Duration:** 164.0s
**Key:** C minor
**Time Signature:** 4

## Lyrics
[verse]
Hear that hammer falling, falling on the stone
Line of tired shoulders, so far from home
Sun beats down hard on a road that don't end
Just the sound of chains and the men who call each other friend

[chorus]
That's the sound, that's the sound of the chain gang
Working through the heat, singing out the pain, man
Huh, ah, hear the rhythm of the blow
That's the sound of the chain gang, moving slow

[verse]
Miles behind us and miles left to break
Every swing we take is for each other's sake
No one's walking free but we still walk as one
Underneath this same relentless sun

[bridge]
Someday this road will finally reach its end
Someday these chains will loosen, friend
Till then we lean on the rhythm of the song
That carries all of us, tired but strong

[chorus]
That's the sound, that's the sound of the chain gang
Working through the heat, singing out the pain, man
Huh, ah, hear the rhythm of the blow
That's the sound of the chain gang, moving slow