Free

I wrote this song at night in Barbour Auditorium at Belhaven College on Valentine’s Day, 1996. The irony of a song written on Valentine’s Day with “Free” as the title is likely why I remember the day at all. The song has absolutely nothing to do with romance, but I was feeling blissfully unattached as an 18-year-old freshman at Belhaven.

As I write this in retrospect, I have the vague sense that I have been dating someone at the time; however, I was the sort of freshman who would forget and go on writing a song feeling blissfully unattached … until she called and reminded me I was.

If you like the song – Cool. I was 18 years old.
If you don’t like the song – Hey, I was 18. What do you expect!

Free

Let the chains fall down
Shackles break like glass
As from death to life I pass
Down
Fall from autumn arms
Like leaves caught in the wind
It’s been so long
Since I could lift them high
Raise my eyes up to the sky
To know
You’ve been watching waiting
Loving all along

When my heart is tied to the world outside
Break the holds it has inside
Send me running into ever-open arms
Till I am free

Let the tears fall down
Walls of bondage break
You set me free for freedom’s sake
Now let me know the light
I’ve hidden from so long
Let the sadness fall
Hard stones of heartache
May the dams of sorrow break
Fall
Till all my hopes and dreams are yours

When my heart is hard and dry inside
Drown me in your living tide
Send me sinking into ever-open arms
Till I am free

When my heart is tied tot eh world outside

Break the holds it has inside
I am falling into ever-open arms
till I am free

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Feb 14th, 1996 | By Justin Brock | Category: Songs