Free

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    This was my first attempt at writing a song. I have since discovered that I have no talent for music, or for rhyming.

    Free

    Kick back, relax
    I’ll put on a show
    To make you think
    In new directions
    And go against
    All you know

    The music starts
    Life disappears
    I challenge you
    To face your fears

    I don’t care
    What you say
    I’m not gonna live
    Day by day
    I’m looking to the future
    While you’re looking back


    Why do you follow
    All the rules?
    What’s gonna happen
    If you break free
    Like me?

    Be mad, be glad, be sad, I don’t care
    Throw your worries up in the air
    If you defy the gravity of society
    They won’t fall back down

    Who cares
    If you cry
    No one cares
    If you die

    You’re invisible
    You don’t exist
    You live in
    Suburbia, clenched in its fist.

    Break free
    While you can
    Before the world starts
    Before they suck you in
    Into the endless din
    Of life’s white noise
    What they call
    “Normality"

    What do you live for
    If you don’t live at all?
    How can you fly
    If you’re afraid to fall?

    Life is defined
    By what we do with it
    So break out
    Stand up
    Fight back
    Stop caring what they think
    And you’ll be truly free

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    famous commented on Free

    10-14-2010

    To think that some live life like you described so well!! You are right what do you live for if you don't live at all? Life is but a vapor but eternity is forever. A life well lived is a surrendered life to the Lord!

    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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