Land Of The Free

Album: Single release only (2018)
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  • Can't wipe the wind-blown smile from across my face
    It's just the old man in me
    Washing his truck at the Sinclair station
    In the land of the free (ooh)
    His mother, Adeline's family, came on a ship
    Cut coal and planted a seed
    Down in them drift mines of Pennsylvania
    In the land of the free

    Land of the free, land of the free
    In the land of the free
    Land of the free, land of the free
    Land of the free, land of the free
    In the land of the free
    (I'm standing crying)

    When I go out in my car, I don't think twice
    But if you're the wrong color skin (I'm standing, crying)
    You grow up looking over both your shoulders
    In the land of the free
    And we got more people locked up than the rest of the world
    Right here in red, white and blue (I'm standing, crying)
    Incarceration's become big business
    It's harvest time out on the avenue

    Land of the free, land of the free
    In the land of the free
    Land of the free, land of the free
    Move on there's nothing to see
    Land of the free, land of the free
    In the land of the free

    Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh
    I'm standing crying (oh oh oh oh)
    I'm standing crying (oh oh oh oh)
    So how many daughters, tell me, how many sons
    Do we have to have to put in the ground
    Before we just break down and face it
    We got a problem with guns? (Oh oh oh oh)
    In the land of the free
    Down at the border, they're gonna put up a wall
    Concrete and Rebar Steel beams (I'm standing crying)
    High enough to keep all those filthy hands off
    Of our hopes and our dreams (I'm standing crying)
    People who just want the same things we do
    In the land of the free

    Land of the free, land of the free
    In the land of the free
    Land of the free, land of the free
    Land of the free, land of the free
    In the land of the free
    Land of the free, land of the free
    Land of the free, land of the free
    Land of the free, land of the free
    In the land of the free (I'm standing crying) Writer/s: Brandon Flowers, Mahalia Jackson
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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