Chained To The Rhythm – Katy Perry | REBECCA BLACK, ALEX GOOT, KHS Cover

This is one of my favourite songs of Katy Perry and as usual KHS (Kurt Hugo Schnieder) has given a marvellous cover song for it with along with Alex Goot, Rebecca Black. I fact the beats in this cover song, I like better than the original.

The lyrics of this song have always been very introspectional for me. They talk about getting trapped in a bubble, a comfortable one but with no growth, where we’re stuck in utopia and see everything through rose-coloured lens to just ignore the reality and celebrate the ignorance by partying, repeating the rhythm.

That’s why the song has the repeated lines ‘Chained to the rhythm’ because of once humans get stuck in a routine, they get moving in the circle being afraid to change anything for their entire lives. Intertia is so powerful in their minds.

The lines go as below

Are we crazy?
Living our lives through a lens
Trapped in our white-picket fence
Like ornaments

So comfortable, we’re livin’ in a bubble, a bubble
So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, the trouble

Aren’t you lonely up there in Utopia?
Where nothing will ever be enough
Happily numb

So comfortable, we’re livin’ in a bubble, a bubble
So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, the trouble (aha)

So put your rose-colored glasses on
And party on (woo)Turn it up, it’s your favorite song
Dance, dance, dance to the distortion
Turn it up, keep it on repeat
Stumbling around like a wasted zombie

Yeah, we think we’re free (aha)

Drink, this one’s on me
We’re all chained to the rhythm
To the rhythm, to the rhythmTurn it up, it’s your favorite song
Dance, dance, dance to the distortion

Turn it up, keep it on repeat
Stumbling around like a wasted zombie

Yeah, we think we’re free (aha)
Drink, this one’s on me
We’re all chained to the rhythm
To the rhythm, to the rhythmAre we tone deaf?

Keep sweeping it under the mat
Thought we could do better than that
I hope we canSo comfortable, we’re livin’ in a bubble, a bubble
So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, the trouble (aha)

So put (so put)
Your rose-colored glasses on
And party on (woo)Turn it up, it’s your favorite song
Dance, dance, dance to the distortion
Turn it up, keep it on repeat
Stumbling around like a wasted zombie

Yeah, we think we’re free (aha)
Drink, this one’s 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
Turn it up, keep it on repeat
Stumbling around like a wasted zombie

Yeah, we think we’re free (aha)
Drink, this one’s on me
We’re all chained to the rhythm
To the rhythm, to the rhythm (woah-oh-oh)

It is my desire
Break down the walls to connect, inspire
Ayy, up in your high place, liars
Time is ticking for the empire
The truth they feed is feeble
As so many times before
The greed of all the people
They stumbling and fumbling
And we about to riot
They woke up, they woke up the lions (woo)

Turn it up, it’s your favorite song (hey-oh-oh)
Dance, dance, dance to the distortion
Turn it up, keep it on repeat
Stumbling around like a wasted zombie (like a wasted zombie)

Yeah, we think we’re free (aha)
Drink, this one’s on me
We’re all chained to the rhythm
To the rhythm, to the rhythm (we’re all chained to the rhythm)

It goes on, and on, and on (turn it up)
(It goes) It goes on, and on, and on (turn it up)
(It goes on, and on, and on, and on)
It goes on, and on, and on (on, and on, and on)
‘Cause we’re all chained to the rhythm