《To Be Free》歌词

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

[00:00:18] The gilt-edged invitation came

[00:00:20] 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

[00:00:27] Where the Prince is mostly seen

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

[00:00:31] And register surprised

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

[00:00:35] Appear before their eyes

[00:00:37] Now being rather humble

[00:00:39] I adopted a disguise

[00:00:41] As the Minister of State

[00:00:42] For Mass Environment Controls

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

[00:00:47] For inhabiting the holes

[00:00:49] That belong to Queen and Country

[00:00:51] But do not permit their souls

[00:00:53] 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

[00:01:13] One million candle-powered

[00:01:15] It kept the night at bay

[00:01:17] While the power station workers

[00:01:19] Were busy making hay

[00:01:21] The workers in the fields

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

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

[00:01:27] 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

[00:01:35] They pointed at the sun

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

[00:01:39] A better crop than guns

[00:01:40] Can ever mass-produce

[00:01:42] At the expense of anyone

[00:01:44] Who is free like me

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

[00:01:52] Who is free

[00:03:03] The solitary peasant

[00:03:04] In his home above the lake

[00:03:06] Raised high on woooden stilts

[00:03:08] Has made the singular mistake

[00:03:10] Of revolutionary conduct

[00:03:11] At the celebration wake

[00:03:14] His urban counterpart

[00:03:15] Engaged in mundane occupation

[00:03:18] 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

[00:03:25] Now the power station worker

[00:03:27] Though his aim is too disjointed

[00:03:29] Finds himself around the corner

[00:03:31] While his gun is never pointed

[00:03:33] He is ever at the ready

[00:03:35] He desires to be annointed

[00:03:37] And be free like me

[00:03:40] And be free like me

[00:03:44] And be free like me

[00:03:48] And be free