“Chains of Misery” is about the little devil that sits permanently on our shoulder. This little devil who can ruin your life. For instance, you meet a girl, you have a great relationship, and all of the sudden you do something stupid with no apparent reason, and you wonder… “Why am I doing this?” You don’t really know why you act the way you do, but you feel that you have to do it. Maybe it’s a feeling of guilt that drives you, maybe you feel that you’re not “good enough” to deserve all this… In any case, you act against your own interest without really knowing why.

—Bruce Dickinson