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You Got To Be Free

from CHARGE! by SIRR

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A few words are in order. The line, "You've got to be free," is a quote the song specifically attributes to The Beatles, my favourite band, from Come Together, one of the greatest songs of all time. I got the notion of taking the lyrical allusion one step further and actually using certain samples of Come Together for an explicit musical reference. That I could even find the source material was a revelation, and I was shocked shitless when it actually worked. I consider it a tip of the hat to The Beatles, but done in the spirit of creating something altogether new. And as much as I like my tune, it's not even in the same universe as Come Together, and no one is ever going to mistake the two songs as they sound very different. And this certainly isn't a money making venture - just a creative outlet.

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You Got To Be Free

I've been lost in the desert/ I've been lost without rain
I've been tossed in the garbage/ And I've been tosssed in the flames

I've been kicked to the curb/ And punched in the head
Listened to lies /And believed what I read

I've been thrown to the wolves/And sold for a song
I've been brought to my knees/ And told to stay strong

I won't swallow your shit/ Or just play along
I won't say you're right/ When I know that your wrong

Chorus

Gonna live how I want and make my own way
I won't choke it down and pretend it's okay
Ain't nobody nowhere got nothing on me
See the Beatles were right - you got to be free


They say that pride precedeth the fall/
They say you can't make it over the wall
But maybe it pays not to listen too close
You can grasp at the wisps or give up the ghost

I've been washed in the water and bathed in the blood
I've been flung in the river and slung with the mud
I've been at my best and seen at my worst
Blessed by a fool and stained with this curse

Down in the trenches here comes the gas
If I'm not the first I might be the last
Don't matter how long don't matter how fast
Got my eye on the future and not on the past


Chorus

Gonna live how I want and make my own way
I won't choke it down and pretend it's okay
Ain't nobody nowhere got nothing on me
See the Beatles were right - you got to be free


Got a tat to remind me and one to forget
Got a drug to define me and one to reject
Up on the scoreboard you'll see my name
I'm the one with the zero running from shame

I am the sinner who casts the first stone
The prodigal child who can never come home
See the garden was never half what it seemed
Some wormy fruit and a snake in a tree

I've slipped in the back and put on a front
I've acted the part and did my own stunts
I've suffered a flood and been left with a thirst
And I've led with my heart that's been the worst

Chorus

Gonna live how I want and make my own way
I won't choke it down and pretend it's okay
Ain't nobody nowhere got nothing on me
See the Beatles were right - you got to be free

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from CHARGE!, released September 27, 2014

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