《To Be Free》歌词

[00:00:01] To Be Free - The Strawbs

[00:00:17] The gilt-edged invitation came

[00:00:19] And I said "What can this mean

[00:00:21] To attend the coronation

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

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

[00:00:26] Where the Prince is normally seen "

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

[00:00:31] And registered surprise

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

[00:00:35] Appear before their eyes

[00:00:36] Now bring rather humble

[00:00:38] I adopted a disguise

[00:00:40] As the Minister of State

[00:00:42] For Mass Environment Controls

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

[00:00:46] For inhabiting the holes

[00:00:48] That belong to Queen and Country

[00:00:50] But do not permit their souls

[00:00:52] To be free like me

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

[00:01:00] To be free

[00:01:09] The perspex chandelier

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

[00:01:12] One million candle-powered

[00:01:14] It kept the night at bay

[00:01:16] While the power station workers

[00:01:18] Were busy making hay

[00:01:20] The workers in the fields

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

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

[00:01:26] As a self-containing fence

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

[00:01:30] It was needlessly immense

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

[00:01:34] They pointed at the sun

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

[00:01:38] A better crop than guns

[00:01:40] Can ever mass produce

[00:01:41] At the expense of anyone

[00:01:43] Who is free like me

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

[00:01:51] Who is free

[00:03:02] The solitary peasant

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

[00:03:05] Raised high on wooden stilts

[00:03:07] Has made the singular mistake

[00:03:09] Of revolutionary conduct

[00:03:11] At the celebration wake

[00:03:13] His urban counterpart

[00:03:15] Engaged in mundane occupation

[00:03:17] Enjoys the chance of laughing

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

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

[00:03:23] For Rehabilitation

[00:03:24] Now the power station worker

[00:03:26] Though his aim is too disjointed

[00:03:28] Finds himself around the corner

[00:03:30] While his gun is never pointed

[00:03:32] He is ever at the ready

[00:03:34] He desires to be annointed

[00:03:36] And be free like me

[00:03:39] And be free like me

[00:03:43] And be free like me

[00:03:47] And be free