Impeding Freedom

from Petty Crimes by Jonny NOS

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All my friends are steady dying by the truckload
I hear about them all the time
They've got unhealthy obsessions with needles
Their discontent with their own lives
And so am I
Hell so am I

Cuz I cant be content with complacency and misery
I can't be content with hourly paid slavery
I can't bite the hand and I can't live off the land
It's been replaced with property

And I've been told I can't complain cuz I don't vote
I won't cast ballots for the electoral college to overthrow
If voting made a change they'd surely take that right away
Freedom is just a lie were sold
I won't buy it though
Ain't buying it no

Cuz nothing matters and the riches men own everything
All the wealth and all our lives
Synthetic comforts come from prescription bottles
And it holds us over til we die

But I refuse to look the the other way
As people are killed and locked away
We're all in cages, clear as day
Discomfort, discord, disarray

Theres always a cop when I don't need one
Armed with guns and with misleading
Words to make you think you need police for your wellbeing
But I've seen through the lies repeating
In all the fine print that I've been reading
It's got me paranoid and scheming
Screaming laws impeding freedom

But the police never provide freedom
Politics never provide freedom
The profits (prophets?) never provide freedom
Only we can provide freedom

So meet me in the candlelight and we'll take off through the night
Fight with bullets, bottles, bricks and maybe we'll take back our lives
And they ever catch us, we'll have a chance to die with pride
Or I'll die alone and thats fine

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from Petty Crimes, released January 1, 2020

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