Freedom - poem by Michael Rosen
May 11, 06:45 AM
FREEDOM by Michael Rosen
Freedom has no warning lights
when it slips away
it’s doesn’t flash red.
when it slips away
it’s doesn’t flash red.
When they start saying you can’t
speak your mind
and you weren’t doing harm
that’s it again, slipping away
but it’s not flashing red
speak your mind
and you weren’t doing harm
that’s it again, slipping away
but it’s not flashing red
When they start to talk of how
some people are born bad
that’s freedom slipping away
but it’s not flashing red
some people are born bad
that’s freedom slipping away
but it’s not flashing red
When they say you’re the wrong kind of person
to go to school
that’s it, slipping away
but it’s not flashing red.
to go to school
that’s it, slipping away
but it’s not flashing red.
When they say that you can’t work here
you’ve got the wrong face
sure enough, that’s it, slipping away
and it’s not flashing red.
you’ve got the wrong face
sure enough, that’s it, slipping away
and it’s not flashing red.
When they start locking people up
without giving them a fair hearing
there it goes, slipping away
but it’s not flashing red.
without giving them a fair hearing
there it goes, slipping away
but it’s not flashing red.
When people start disappearing
and they don’t come back
that really is it, slipping away
but it’s not flashing red.
and they don’t come back
that really is it, slipping away
but it’s not flashing red.
freedom has no warning lights
when it slips away
it’s doesn’t flash red.
when it slips away
it’s doesn’t flash red.