《To Be Free》歌词

歌曲： To Be Free

所属专辑：A Choice Selection

歌手： The Strawbs

时长： 04:16

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To Be Free - The Strawbs[00:00:00]

The gilt-edged invitation came[00:00:18]

And I said "What can this mean[00:00:20]

To attend the coronation[00:00:21]

As the first guest of the Queen[00:00:23]

And sit upon her right hand[00:00:25]

Where the Prince is mostly seen[00:00:27]

The maids of honour stared at me[00:00:29]

And register surprised[00:00:31]

To see a man of such good taste[00:00:33]

Appear before their eyes[00:00:35]

Now being rather humble[00:00:37]

I adopted a disguise[00:00:39]

As the Minister of State[00:00:41]

For Mass Environment Controls[00:00:42]

Who condemn the working classes[00:00:45]

For inhabiting the holes[00:00:47]

That belong to Queen and Country[00:00:49]

But do not permit their souls[00:00:51]

To be free like me[00:00:53]

To be free like me[00:00:56]

To be free[00:01:00]

The perspex chandelier[00:01:09]

Began to melt and slip away[00:01:10]

One million candle-powered[00:01:13]

It kept the night at bay[00:01:15]

While the power station workers[00:01:17]

Were busy making hay[00:01:19]

The workers in the fields[00:01:21]

Were engaged in self-defence[00:01:22]

Which involved the use of barbed wire[00:01:24]

As a self-containing fence[00:01:27]

But as a means of self-protection[00:01:28]

It was needlessly immense[00:01:30]

I stopped to ask them for a light[00:01:32]

They pointed at the sun[00:01:35]

Which raised their hopes of harvesting[00:01:36]

A better crop than guns[00:01:39]

Can ever mass-produce[00:01:40]

At the expense of anyone[00:01:42]

Who is free like me[00:01:44]

Who is free like me[00:01:47]

Who is free[00:01:52]

The solitary peasant[00:03:03]

In his home above the lake[00:03:04]

Raised high on woooden stilts[00:03:06]

Has made the singular mistake[00:03:08]

Of revolutionary conduct[00:03:10]

At the celebration wake [00:03:11]

His urban counterpart[00:03:14]

Engaged in mundane occupation[00:03:15]

Enjoys the chance of laughing[00:03:18]

At the Queen's humiliation[00:03:19]

At the hands of Ministers of State[00:03:21]

For Rehabilitation[00:03:23]

Now the power station worker[00:03:25]

Though his aim is too disjointed[00:03:27]

Finds himself around the corner[00:03:29]

While his gun is never pointed[00:03:31]

He is ever at the ready[00:03:33]

He desires to be annointed[00:03:35]

And be free like me[00:03:37]

And be free like me[00:03:40]

And be free like me[00:03:44]

And be free[00:03:48]