Chained to the Rhythm

## **Chained to the Rhythm**Song by Katy Perry

"*We're chained*"
—Brandi Carlile
"**Chained to the Rhythm**" is a song performed by American singer Katy Perry featuring Jamaican singer Skip Marley. Serving as the lead single from her 2017 album *Witness*, it was written by Perry and Marley along with the song's producers, Max Martin and Ali Payami, with additional writing by Sia. Sia also provides backing vocals.

For more information about this song, go to the Katy Perry Wiki's "Chained to the Rhythm" page.

## Lyrics

[Verse 1: Katy Perry]

Are we crazy?

Living our lives through a lens

Trapped in our white picket fence

Like ornaments

So comfortable, we're living in a bubble, bubble

So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, trouble

Aren't you lonely

Up there in utopia

Where nothing will ever be enough?

Happily numb

So comfortable, we're living in a bubble, bubble

So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, trouble

[Pre-Chorus: Katy Perry]

So put your rose-colored glasses on

And party on

[Chorus: Katy Perry]

Turn it up, it's your favorite song

Dance, dance, dance to the distortion

Come on, turn it up, keep it on repeat

Stumbling around like a wasted zombie

Yeah, we think we're free

Drink, this one is on me

We're all chained to the rhythm

To the rhythm

To the rhythm

Turn it up, it's your favorite song

Dance, dance, dance to the distortion

Come on, turn it up, keep it on repeat

Stumbling around like a wasted zombie

Yeah, we think we're free

Drink, this one is on me

We're all chained to the rhythm

To the rhythm

To the rhythm

[Verse 2: Katy Perry]

Are we tone deaf?

Keep sweeping it under the mat

Thought we could do better than that

I hope we can

So comfortable, we're living in a bubble, bubble

So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, trouble

[Pre-Chorus: Katy Perry]

So put your rose-colored glasses on

And party on

[Chorus: Katy Perry]

Turn it up, it's your favorite song

Dance, dance, dance to the distortion

Come on, turn it up, keep it on repeat

Stumbling around like a wasted zombie

Yeah, we think we're free

Drink, this one is on me

We're all chained to the rhythm

To the rhythm

To the rhythm

Turn it up, it's your favorite song

Dance, dance, dance to the distortion

Come on, turn it up, keep it on repeat

Stumbling around like a wasted zombie

Yeah, we think we're free

Drink, this one is on me

We're all chained to the rhythm

To the rhythm

To the rhythm

[Bridge: Skip Marley]

It is my desire

Break down the walls to connect, inspire

Ay, up in your high place, liars

Time is ticking for the empire

The truth they feed is feeble

As so many times before

They greed over the people

They stumbling and fumbling

And we're about to riot

They woke up, they woke up the lions

(Woo!)

[Chorus: Katy Perry]

Turn it up, it's your favorite song

Dance, dance, dance to the distortion

Come on, turn it up, keep it on repeat

Stumbling around like a wasted zombie

Yeah, we think we're free

Drink, this one is on me

We're all chained to the rhythm

To the rhythm

To the rhythm

[Outro: Katy Perry]

Turn it up

Turn it up

It goes on, and on, and on

It goes on, and on, and on

It goes on, and on, and on

'Cause we're all chained to the rhythm

## See also

* "Double Rainbow"
* "Hey Hey Hey"