Ode to Freedom
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โฑ๏ธ 5:14 duration
๐ ID: 2891973
๐ Lyrics
Freedom is the sweetest sound, like snorting drugs and breaking glass
Freedom is the greatest word, like shit and puke and anarchy
Freedom is the greatest thing, like shows and beer and 7"s
Freedom is the truest art
Perfected in the three chord punk rock song
And when I look out over fields and mountains,
I hope one day they all can be anarchist squats
Where all the kids are orphans and everyone wears
Patched up clothes that say less-than-ten-word
Slogans oversimplifying problems
Into catchy confrontational underground slang
Freedom is the freshest breeze
Like beer-soaked clothes and tobacco wind
Freedom is the soundest cause
, Like distributing pamphlets and putting on shows
Freedom is a glowing sight
, Like Mohawks formed in just the right shape
Freedom is the truest love,
Drunk fucking on the toilet at the punk rock show
And when I look out over hills and pastures
I hope one day they all can be spaces for bands
To play where all the kids just self-destruct and
Ruthlessly defend their right to misery, running from
Fears and scars and themselves, by assimilating into yet
Another formulaic authoritarian fashion show, where
Everything they think and say can be predicted in
Advance, with pretty labels and trendy clothing
Accepted causes, repetitive politics, unexamined
Choices, social pressures, and all denied just like the
Straight kids in junior high did before the "enlightened
" Ones saw the error in their ways. It's all another social
Game. It's all another set of rules. It's all another bullshit
Answer with myths and prophets and social hierarchy. Just
Because you wear the patch
Doesn't mean you are the message
I bet Steve Ignorant would fall in love with Thomas Paine
And John Stewart Mill. It's all the same. Why should
This be any different? If you want to leave it all behind,
If you really want to leave it all behind
It's not in a fashion. It's not in a music scene
It's not in a political cause. It's not in a religious doctrine
. It's not in a charismatic social circle or in a pill of ecstasy
. It's not in an economic class
It's not a fistfight or in the finger you give to the cops
It's not in a room of 40 bottles or the piss that's on the floor.
It's not in your cynicism. It's not in your social theory
It's not in your masculine posing
It's not in how many hardships you've endured.
It's not what you can get away with or what you can avoid
It's what you can give and whether you can change
And whether you can hear it when others criticize
You and if you can keep on wanting to learn
Freedom is the greatest word, like shit and puke and anarchy
Freedom is the greatest thing, like shows and beer and 7"s
Freedom is the truest art
Perfected in the three chord punk rock song
And when I look out over fields and mountains,
I hope one day they all can be anarchist squats
Where all the kids are orphans and everyone wears
Patched up clothes that say less-than-ten-word
Slogans oversimplifying problems
Into catchy confrontational underground slang
Freedom is the freshest breeze
Like beer-soaked clothes and tobacco wind
Freedom is the soundest cause
, Like distributing pamphlets and putting on shows
Freedom is a glowing sight
, Like Mohawks formed in just the right shape
Freedom is the truest love,
Drunk fucking on the toilet at the punk rock show
And when I look out over hills and pastures
I hope one day they all can be spaces for bands
To play where all the kids just self-destruct and
Ruthlessly defend their right to misery, running from
Fears and scars and themselves, by assimilating into yet
Another formulaic authoritarian fashion show, where
Everything they think and say can be predicted in
Advance, with pretty labels and trendy clothing
Accepted causes, repetitive politics, unexamined
Choices, social pressures, and all denied just like the
Straight kids in junior high did before the "enlightened
" Ones saw the error in their ways. It's all another social
Game. It's all another set of rules. It's all another bullshit
Answer with myths and prophets and social hierarchy. Just
Because you wear the patch
Doesn't mean you are the message
I bet Steve Ignorant would fall in love with Thomas Paine
And John Stewart Mill. It's all the same. Why should
This be any different? If you want to leave it all behind,
If you really want to leave it all behind
It's not in a fashion. It's not in a music scene
It's not in a political cause. It's not in a religious doctrine
. It's not in a charismatic social circle or in a pill of ecstasy
. It's not in an economic class
It's not a fistfight or in the finger you give to the cops
It's not in a room of 40 bottles or the piss that's on the floor.
It's not in your cynicism. It's not in your social theory
It's not in your masculine posing
It's not in how many hardships you've endured.
It's not what you can get away with or what you can avoid
It's what you can give and whether you can change
And whether you can hear it when others criticize
You and if you can keep on wanting to learn