Tyler Bradford Wright - Free Country Lyrics

Hatred has a certain kind of appetite
Takes everything you are but can't be satisfied
Confronted with a choice you say you can't decide
Cause being human just might cost you your privilege
No, freedom isn't free, no, someone pays the price
But that rule don't apply to you as long as you're white
Head on down to Georgia for a homicide
You still won't face the consequences
Most of us will never have to know the pain
Of wondering if every day might be the day
That someone with a gun will take your breath away
Just because you aren't their color
Or wondering if you can ever trust the law
You might get shot at just because the neighbor called
You know the system isn't gonna plead your cause
They'll sweep your story under the covers
In our free country
Innocence is out on the run
All our best criminals
Are safe at home cleaning their guns
In our free country
Taking breath out of their lungs
In our free country
Can't you see just how far we've come
Have you ever wondered what it is you're yelling for
Do you really know the world outside your door
Maybe you're the one that this reminder's for
Inconvenience isn't oppression
No, you're drowning out the logic with entitlement
Convinced that your opinion must be heaven-sent
That it deserves respect because you uttered it
But no one hears you through the aggression
Cause there's really just a few with power to pull the strings
In this broken puppet called democracy
They know to show you just the things you wanna see
And then convince you nothing is missing
Oh, they hand you a fake wheel so you can steer the boat
But some old politician's gonna buy your vote
Really, we just follow where the money goes
And somehow started calling it Christian
In our free country
Innocence is out on the run
With all our best criminals
Safe at home cleaning their guns
In our free country
Taking breath out of their lungs
In our free country
Can't you see just how far we've come
In our free country
Is it still something you can be proud of
When all of the walls are
Breaking down and falling around us
In our free country
When homes are just a decadent prison
It's a free country
Where we can speak but nobody listens