Freedom Lyrics - New Model Army

It's time to rebuilding Dresden, the great machines come a-rumbling in 

The desecration of the ruins and everything that might have been 

You showed me the square in the melting snow 

As the light was beginning to fade 

But your melancholy eyes betrayed you 

Just as you have been betrayed 

I get culture shock coming back to the west - I can feel the wicked sting 

I see the stores all glittering like idiot's gold beckoning the innocents in 

The constructed face of a civilised world, complete cosmetic control 

But it's not far back to the caves and the trees 

And soon it will be time to go 

Freedom? I don't hear any more songs of freedom. 

121st street and rising the western dream aspires 

The crack kings like to drive German cars and there's children up for sale 

The streets are left scorched and barren 

There's twenty-seven channels on the cable television 

Get gang murder hype from Tinseltown to sell a movie about Malcolm X 

But freedom? I don't hear any more songs of freedom. 

So pinned down and what do we get? 

A longer piece of rope for our cute little necks 

Sweet liberty and her faithlessness 

Freedom? I don't hear any more songs of freedom