In "Break Away," the end of the line "Where the shackles never hold me down" is sung to a descending phrase, musically giving a sense of that "hold[ing] down." When I figured out the specific notes, I discovered that it's an arpeggiation of an A minor chord (E C A), so there's also a musical feeling of sadness linked with "the shackles" and their "hold[ing] me down."
I think it's also important to note that compared to the earlier iteration of the chorus ("I can break away from that lonely life / And I can do what I wanna do..."), the melody here is different, apparently to accommodate that descending melody for "hold me down."
