Freedom (extended version)

The Footnotes

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A 3-way collab, Matt Tyson on vocals, $Bill on bass, mandolin, vocals and main lead guitar, and me ...

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The Footnotes

Self-penned songs - rock, pop, country, electric and acoustic. Despite the name, the Footnotes is a one-man band with various named collaborations.

The Footnotes................. We're rock, we're pop or country. We're electric, acoustic or classical. We're anything else that might have been. We're also mostly a one man band. or try for my other band.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Rock General

Charts

Peak #284

Peak in subgenre #92

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Uploaded

November 13, 2016

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.9 MB • 160 kbps • 4:16

Story behind the song

I wrote it, and sent it to $bill for some inspiration (in the style of Crosby Still and Nash ... I said) ... he came back with the bass part. I asked if he had a mandolin ... he did. We sent the track to Matt for some vocal improvement ... which he did..... and then it bounced back and forth until it was done :)

Lyrics

If we don't talk about it there will come a day
When we'll wonder how and when 
They came and took it all away. 

If we don't say enough about the things they try to ban
What to think and where to stand
We'll end up losing it     

Freedom freedom  
sing about it talk about it 
if you need to shout it, shout it loud
Yeah shout freedom freedom freedom 

Freedom freedom 
sing about it talk about it 
if you need to shout it, shout it loud
Yeah shout freedom freedom freedom 

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and we want be happy
and we want to be free
and we want to live all our lives without your disease 
and we want to sing our own songs and climb in our own trees
and we want to have children who can form their own beliefs in freedom

and we want be happy
and we want to be free
and we want to live all our lives without your disease 
and we want to sing our own songs and climb in our own trees
and we want to have children who can form their own beliefs

we're gonna live in freedom
we're gonna love in freedom
we're gonna breath in freedom
and sing out freedom