Song Title: The Road To Freedom
Artist: Chris De Burgh
Intro
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Verse 1
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I feel the wind blowing through my doorway,
it's telling me that the summer's gone,
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and the winter waits in shadow, waiting with the storm.
Verse 2
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I am old and my bones are weary,
and my son, he is all I have,
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but he has gone to fight for freedom, leaving with my heart.
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All my life I have loved this land, worked it with my hands,
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but can this freedom send the rain when seed is in the ground ?
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Can this freedom heal the pain and bring my boy back to me again?
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Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh, oh. (2x)
Verse 3
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I watched them sail from the rocks below me,
'twas like the sea in its endless rage,
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many fall on the road to freedom, dying on the stones.
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All my life I have loved this land, worked it with my hands,
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but can your freedom send the rain when seed is in the ground ?
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Can your freedom heal the pain and bring my boy back to me again?
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Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh, oh.
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Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh, oh. - - - Oh oh.
Verse 4
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Late last night, as the world was sleeping,
I dreamed my boy, he was calling out,
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'Cos he was lost in some dark forest,
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and snow was falling down, falling on the ground.
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Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh, oh.