Fettered

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. - Thoreau

dragged heavy around

nagging, burdensome pursy

weighing 'pon a conscience

Author's Note

"Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!" - Thoreau