"Rockin' In The Free World"
-Neil Young
There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign
on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin'
we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she's done to it
There's one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive.
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
I hear pounding guitar.Lots of drums. I hear something about a baby being put away, and a mom going away to do something.
ReplyDeleteThe kid will never get to fall in love, or get to be cool.
The song seems ironic. "Kind and Gentle" + "Machine Gun Hand"
It is kinda silly that he calls it a 'Free World'.
I think that Neil Young thinks that the world has a lot of problems that need to be addressed and not ignored like they are now.
At least we are free....
this song has always been my favourite school of rock song because its so deep but you can still rock out to it! also, all the neil young songs ive ever heard have been slow and sad, and then out of nowhere there was this awesome rock song!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy this song because it makes people relize that some things we would never think about things you would never think about. I think that Neil Young added the ozone layer because when I was reseching him it seid he`s a environmentalist. I think it`s interesting how he put ozone layer and styrofoam boxes beside each other.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the the Stompa song and The summer of 69,s. Karim
ReplyDeleteIloved listining to all of your songs
ReplyDeleteI like tis song a lot and all, but in my opion I dont think we should do it because we have sang it before and we have sang it a lot. Its a really good song and I love it but we have sang it a lot, and i think it would be like just singing it a lot its hard to explain. I just think we have sang it to much and should make most of our songs new songs... I know it has to be appropriate Rockin' in the free world has been sang so it is aloud but I just think we have preformed it to much.
ReplyDeleteI didn't like this song to much. I think you should listen to Summer of '69. I really liked this song it's easy to sing and very cool to listen to. It has a good beat to it and I think you should listen to Summer of '69. Jeramy.
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