If You Want to Be Free

Well the airwaves ring loud with all the things they don't say.

You writers, you pundits, you're the Judas today.

Cause you sit back and watch while the world catches fire.

And then you don't say a word, while the stakes just get higher.

The NSA’s listening in.

There's a war that won't end.

But you fill up my head with all matter of spin.

You twist a simple truth until it's not what it seems.

The illusion of freedom, it's the real American Dream.

So people you've got to turn your voice to a shout.

You gotta open your eyes up and look at what's happening right now.

Cause there's a coup going down, and this is a fact.

So if you wanna break free you'll have to take it back.

If you wanna be free you'll have to take it back.

To the callous politician, who sends boys on killing missions.

And then sits back and smiles while the blood money keeps dripping.

Don't say you serve me or anyone else.

You're a fucking bloodsucker, you're just serving yourself.

You send the truth on vacation.

The age of misinformation, has dawned from the north down to the old slave plantations.

And liberty, democracy, and all of the rest.

Are just words that meant one thing, and now mean so much less.

You talk like a saint, so righteous and pure.

But while people, they suffer, your pockets get full.

You want me to think that you keep this world turning.

While the smoke that keeps rising, is our future burning.

So people you've got to turn your voice to a shout.

You gotta open your eyes up and look at what's happening right now.

Cause there's a coup going down, and this is a fact.

So if you wanna break free you'll have to take it back.

If you wanna be free you'll have to take it back.

When I finally look out on my last setting sun.

I wanna leave the world a better place than when I did come.

The time for doing nothing has long since come and gone.

People open your eyes and look at what's going on.