Social Conscience Music

Rockin' In The Free World
Performed by Neil Young


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There are colors on the street
Red, white, and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
There's a warnin' sign in the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan
But I am to them
So I try to forgive em, any way I can, yeah...

I see a girl in the night
With a baby in her hands
Under an old street light
Oh, near a garbage can
Now she put her kid away
She's gone to get a hit
She hates her life, and what she's done with it
That's one more kid, that'll never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool

There's a thousand points of light 
For the homeless man
We got a kinder gentler machine gun hand
There's department stores, and toilet paper
Styrofoam garbage for the Ozone layer
There's a man of the people, said 'keep hope alive'
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive