You Don't Know Freedom Lyrics

You say that you don't wanna

Stay together with the one who said

They'd tether their whole life to you

And you can never see a way

That it could ever be the way it was

When everything was fresh and new

So tell me what you want

What you think you deserve

And how you're gonna pay for it

What you're gonna say

How you'll build up the nerve

To be the one to say you're over it

You wanna be free

Free

Free to be with someone new

You wanna be free

Free

Free to be a better you

Well, you make your choices

You live with them

I'll see you when they catch up with you

Oh my friend

You don't know what freedom is

Well, let me tell you how it works

How you're making it worse

And how your word won't be no good to you

How will you sleep at night

Knowing your folks were right

How that you never learned to see it through

Tell me again how all your other friends

Are saying everything you wanna hear

No matter what you do they'll support you

And watch as you pull down everything that you hold dear

Oh but you wanna be free

Free

Free to be with someone new

You wanna be free

Free

Free to be a better you

Well, you make your choices

You live with them

I'll see you when they catch up with you

Oh my friend

You don't know what freedom is

Well did you daddy never teach you

That the grass is always greener

Where you water it

How when you go through the highs and the lows together

That's the only way the love will ever grow

Or do you think that you will ever see what love can be

When you're always running from your past

Let me ask you

Do you know what you're running from?

Do you know what you're giving up?

Will you ever be someone to trust?

Or just a slave to your lust?

Afraid to open up

And face the pain within?

Oh but you wanna be free

Free

Free to be with someone new

You wanna be free

Free

Free to be a better you

Well, you make your choices

You live with them

I'll see you when they catch up with you

Oh my friend

You don't know what freedom is

No you don't know freedom

No you don't know freedom

No you don't know freedom

No you don't know freedom