Get Free

We’ve been backstabbed betrayed, butchered and splayed

On the altar of “the way it’s always been done.”
It’s American, man, watch the funerals span
The bulk of the calendar year

And you can shake your head say it’s not right
Spend all your nights in electronic fights
But you know in the end, there’s no way to defend
The way we do nothing at all

When waking up is a trauma and hellos turns to drama
You disassociate from every nuclear thought
Total lack of conviction with a bullshit addiction
It’s enough to forget all we’ve got

And all we’ve got could someday be enough
A spiritual world where we lean into love
Well hey I get it man, you’re not sure of the plan
As you harangue me holding a beer

What if the best in us was on the cusp
Of true manifestation?
Could we take the leap into the deep
And find that the softest landing?

And besides  
What have we got to lose?
If we could stay like this or get better,
What would you choose?

I just want my friends to get free
I just want my love to get free
I just want the pained to get free
I just want you to get free
I just wanna get free  
Come on let’s all get free

 

The more I love

VERSE

(Singer 1)

G

I was "get me mine"

C

I was "each for his own"

G 

I was out for myself

D

I was all alone

I was self-absorbed

Self-obsessed

Self-contained

In a selfish net

BRIDGE

C D

Until one fine day, I believed

CHORUS

G

That the more I love

C

The more I live

G

The more I give

D

The more I grow

VERSE

(Singer 2)

Well it's one big picture

And there's one pot of paint

And we're all these little brushes

And we're making something great

Everyones' their part

And they're part of the whole

Step back and look

At one big beautiful soul

BRIDGE + CHORUS

Cos one fine day I believed

VERSE

(Singer 1)

Em

My goal in life

Am

Was to satisfy my needs

Em

Only then I could be happy

D

Or so I believed

For years I did everything

My little heart desired

But the more I fed the flames

The bigger grew the fires

BRIDGE

Til' one fine day I believed

CHORUS (Instrumental)

VERSE (Strummed)

(Singer 3)

Only when the hungry get fed

Will I feel full

When the sick get better 

Will I be well

(Singer 4)

My country's at war

so I can't be at peace

Once they cut up all the weapons

I will feel release

BRIDGE

One fine day I believe

MIDDLE

(Singer 3)

Em

Service is love

Am

Put in action

Em

Enough is enough

F D

Paint your way to paradise

CHORUS

Cos the more I love

The more I live

The more I give

The more I get

The more I serve

The more I grow

The more I sow

The more I reap

Cos the more I love

The more I live

The more I give

The more I get

VERSE (Strummed/Spoken)

(Singer 2)

I've painted moonlit panoramas

And a heavenly sunrise

But the light I've yet to capture

Is in a child's eyes

When they see they can do something

And they start to dream

And the world's a better place

With self-esteem

EXTRA

VERSE

BRIDGE + CHORUS

I used to play for myself

Now I'm the drummer in a band

I bring everyone together

With the rhythm in my hands

And I've got a purpose

A place in the world

And it's the greatest feeling

That I ever had