And this bird you cannot change 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now Oh oh oh oh oh oh And the bird you cannot change Lord knows, I can't change If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me For I must be travelin' on now There's too many places I got

And freedom tastes of reality An' I'm waiting for you to follow me How can we follow? If I told you what it takes To reach the highest high You'd laugh and say 'nothing's that simple' But you've been told many times before Messiahs pointed to the door

Battlefields a thousand miles away There with every bite Finally we're coming home Watching the horizon Everybody's coming home for summer What a feeling, taste the freedom We started in October Drowned our sins in cold November rain Thoughts all through

I went from goin' to school, to totin' them tools and makin' a move Said I would win, they said I would lose, shit We're so confused, hope I don't make the news, oh Lord We was breakin' the rules, trappin' to get some food Risking freedom for shoes

Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast Blind man ask me forgiveness I won't deny myself Disrespect you have given Your suffering's my wealth I feed off pain, force fed to love it And now I swallow whole I'll never live in the past Burn my fist to the

Someone saved, someone saved, someone saved my life tonight You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear You nearly had me roped and tied Altar-bound, hypnotized Sweet freedom whispered in my ear You're a butterfly And butterflies are free to fly Fly

Uxellodunon This is the final resistancel This was the final revolti In desperace hope With tear-dimmed eyes With wrath-torn minds We took up arms one more time Oh the last stand The freedom manifesto

I can't move Freedom, cut me loose 'Cause I need freedom, too I break chains all by myself Won't let my freedom rot in hell Hey! I'ma keep running 'Cause a winner don't quit on themselves I'm telling these tears, go and fall away, fall away

I fell in love in the back of a cop car But there was somethin' bout the way The blue lights were shinin' Bringing out the freedom in your eyes I was too busy watching you Going wild child To be worried about going to jail You were thinking that Running

It comes and goes in waves The freedom, of falling A feeling I thought was set in stone It slips through, my fingers I'm trying hard to let go And carries us away It always does, it always does We watch as our young hearts fade Into the flood, into the