Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World Lyrics

Neil Young Lyrics

"Rockin' In The Free World"

There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shuffling their feet
People sleeping in their shoes
But there's a warning sign
On the road ahead
There's a lot of people saying
We'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan
But I am to them
So I try to forget it
Any way I can

Keep on rocking in the free world
Keep on rocking in the free world
Keep on rocking in the free world
Keep on rocking in the free world

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away
And she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life
And what she's done to it
There's one more kid
That will never go to school
Never get to fall in love
Never get to be cool

Keep on rocking in the free world
Keep on rocking in the free world
Keep on rocking in the free world
Keep on rocking in the free world

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler
Machine-gun hand
We got department stores
And toilet paper
Got Styrofoam boxes
For the ozone layer
Got a man of the people
Says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn
Got roads to drive

Keep on rocking in the free world
Keep on rocking in the free world
Keep on rocking in the free world
Keep on rocking in the free world

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Writer(s): Neil Young, Frank Sampedro

This song expresses Neil Young critique of society and government during the time when George H.W. Bush was a President of the USA.

The acoustic version of this track opens the album, the electric version closes it.

This song was written in February 1989 as Neil Young toured the Pacific Northwest. His guitarist Frank Sampedro recalled to Mojo in a 2018 interview, "I said, 'Look, man, tonight, get in your room, think about all this stuff that's going down: the Ayatollah, all the stuff in Afghanistan, all these wars breaking out, all the problems in America… [...] And the next morning, we got on the bus to leave and he says, 'OK, I did it!'" "

"We got a thousand points of light" is a quote from George H.W. Bush inauguration speech in 1989.

album: "Freedom" (1989)

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