"Adam in Chains" is a song by English rock musician Billy Idol, released on 20 September 1993[1] as the third single from his fifth studio album, Cyberpunk.

Within the biography section of the custom floppy disk included with the press pack edition of the Cyberpunk album, the song was described by Mark Frauenfelder: "Here's a prayer for the tomorrow people and power junkies.

It depicted Billy Idol bound in a chair with a chip inserted into his neck as he is monitored by scientists.

Idol eventually rejects the fantasy, which is consumed in flames as, in the real world, his body violently convulses.

[8] Robert Christgau, in his review of Cyberpunk, commented: "So "Adam in Chains," which after a long spoken intro devolves into what a vulgarian might take for his latest love-gone-bad rant, is in fact "a prayer for the tomorrow people and power junkies.