The Unbreakable Chain - Daniel Lanois

You wake up and there’s something there tugging at your sleeve

It’s not the pitter-patter of the one in your dreams

Held on by the chain, the unbreakable chain

Held there by the chain, the unbreakable chain

You walk and you know that the wind is not passing you by

It’s speaking and you listen and the tears don’t come now when you cry

Cry, cry, crying won’t break the unbreakable chain

Crying won’t break the unbreakable chain

It’s thirty years ago and you live with your decision

You talk to him in a prayer, you send out your transmission

But a prayer won’t break the unbreakable chain

Your prayers won’t break the unbreakable chain

Your baby’s not yours but he walks the streets of your city

He wants to know you, there’s no self pity

It’s pulling at your heart, the unbreakable chain

Pulling at your heart, with the unbreakable chain

And you, you put an ad in the paper, it’s foolish but maybe

Maybe he’ll see cause he’s searching for mama mi

Oh mama here, mama feel the unbreakable chain

Mama feel the unbreakable chain

You can’t believe that it’s now, it’s turned itself around

You’re frightened of the way that you look, but you meet him there in town

Oh the joy and the fear of the unfailable pain

The joy and the fear of the unfailable pain

He stares at you and you step back and no words are spoken

You say hello to your boy and he says, «Mama, you’ve awoken»

Ah yes, you have broken the unbreakable chain

Yes, you have broken the unbreakable chain

You have broken the unbreakable chain

Yeah, you have broken the unbreakable chain