Sweet Freedom
Album - 1973 - Debaser id 17173

I’ve got a dollar deal hidden
Down in my shoe
So listen friends
I tell you what I'm gonna do
I’m gonna run up
The road of mystery
Hangin' by a thread to a fantasy
A background black
Showing my face
Buried in the image
Of an empty space

I'm back on my feet
Getting no sleep
Makin' it all mine
Give me a chance
To follow the bands
Waitin' for the sunshine

Husslin' my will
In a bar downtown
And f it don't work out now
’ll keep movin' around and around ...

Tll I'm back on my feet
Getting no sleep
Makin' it all mine
Give me a chance
To follow the bands
I’m waitin' for the sunshine, yeah

A dreamer, a dreamer
Hangin' around
A dreamer, a dreamer
Trying to hitch a ride
A dreamer, a dreamer
Hangin' around
A dreamer, a dreamer
When I turn my back
You're by my side

Well I fought my way
Through the back-stage door
Staring at my goal
Till my eyes get sore
And working my way
Through the little I say
Caring no less just
The light of the day
A background black
Showing my face
Buried in the image
Of an empty space

I'm back on my feet
Getting no sleep
Makin' it all mine
Give me a chance
To follow the bands
I’m waitin' for the sunshine, yeah

Just a dreamer ...
When I turn by back
You’re by my side

Dreamer ...

Take me across the water
‘Cause I need some place to hide
I done the rancher’s daughter
And I sure did hurt his pride

Well, there's a
Hundred miles of desert
Lies between his hide and mine
I don't need no food
And no water, Lord
‘Cos I'm running out of time

Fightin', killin', wine and women
Gonna put me to my grave
Runnin', hidin', losin', cryin'
Nothing left to save but my life

Stood on a ridge
And shunned religion
Thinking the world was mine
I made my break and a big mistake
Stealin', when I
Should've been buyin'

All that fightin', killin'
Wine and those women
Gonna put me to an early grave
Runnin', hidin', losin', cryin'
Nothing left to save but my life, life...

So I stood on a ridge
And shunned religion
Thinking the world was mine
I made my break and a big mistake
Stealin', when I
Should've been buyin'
I was stealin’
When I should’ve been buyin’
I was stealin’
When I should’ve been buyin’
Stealin’, when I
Should’ve been buyin’ ..
I was stealin’ ...

Don't try to be anything else
But what you are
Don't try to do anything else
But the things you do
'cause I had a dream
About seven stars
And the seven good things
That you are to me

The very reason I'm livin'
Is just for lovin' you
And the seasons are changin'
Makin' it all come true
¡®cause with the spring
And clearing skies
Love's soft light
Will fill my eyes for you



Who fills my head
With these dreams
As I'm leaving my mind
Seven new stars are born
Seven are waiting to die

The very reason I'm livin'
Is just for lovin' you
And the seasons are changin'
Makin' it all come true
'cause I had a dream
About seven stars
And the seven good things
That you are to me

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Walkin' around this concrete garden
Viewing all in vain
Thinking why a dream
Is driving everyone insane

Then someone will come
And make you feel
The master in control
Still you're picking up
And screwing anyone
Who's got a soul

I've been here
Far too long to remember
Sights and sounds
From this town of clowns
Makin' up, dressin' up
Walkin' around
Thinkin' that you're Greta Garbos

I'm sorry my dears
But we only sat down
And laughed and laughed in sorrow
But it was you
That opened the door
And it's that we thank you for

Everyone insane ...
Everyone’s insane

A pilgrim at the grey of dawn
Leaving in the mist of morning
On his journey of goodness
Heaven sent, God blessed

Pilgrim laughing at the world
Spreading joy
At the touch of his hand
Wiping out all the misery
Making love and history

Those of us who don't know war
We shouldn't try to make it
So many did and even more died
Do you think you could take it?

Love lies waiting at my back door
Such a beautiful matter of fact
Life's like an apple
With love as the core
And I'll tell you ¡®bout that

Just a man in my prime


Love was there
But I had no time
I was cheered and adored
And I thought fame
Was all the world

Battles won and victory cheers
Were the sounds
I'd heard for years
But the women I really loved
Was losing me
To all this blood

I only knew I had to win
And build a world
Where I was king
But leaders come and leaders go
And that's the truth
I came to know

Love or war I couldn't choose
And so both
I had to lose