Ethan Daniel Davidson - I Shall Be Free Lyrics

Iron nails rung in
I can still feel the pain
Only my dog seem to know who I am
It's just one of those nights
All along the whale-road
You can hear that sweet singing siren
And I'm tied to the mast the sea could swallow me whole
But I got my eyes yes I still can see
There ain't no chains that can hold me
No letters to control me
I been told
I shall
Be free

Everything you're going to read in tomorrow's papers are all going to be lies.
I can tell you this
Just can't tell you to what degree
You gotta dig alotta dirt to find just where the truth lies
So pack a lunch
Eat it beneath that proverbial tree
There are the monuments of the conquerors, there are the ballads of the conquered
But still the poor starve beneath every flag you'll ever see
So there ain't no slogans that can move me
No system to reprove me
I been told
I shall
Be free

I've got a lot of friends who tell me
They've got my best interests in mind
Ain't they pretty the way the blood drips from their rotten teeth?
So tell me
Is it black or white?
Is it yours or is it mine?
Or is it just different stones with the same shit underneath
Now when your fire burns low why don't you throw in your cross
And let that ceremony of ashes glow for all the world to see
No there ain't no heroes who can save us
No doctrine to enslave us
I been told
I shall
Be free

Don't look up
There's nothing
Falling from the sky
It's just the lights of that
Runaway train
Yesterday I found me a fifty cent umbrella
I wrote on it 'CHICKEN LITTLE WAS RIGHT'
There won't be enough ocean to catch all this approaching rain
Well my eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the LORD
It was Bob & Charlie Ford who kissed him on the cheek
There ain't no demons that can haunt me
No darkness that can daunt me
I been told
I shall
Be free

I'm a foe without a face
A friend without a name
I am a stranger to everyone I've ever seen I'm a beggar at the table of kings
I'm 260,000,000 lonely souls
I've slept beneath every important bridge between here and New Orleans
But where will I be when that trumpet sounds
When the deal goes down where will I be
Can't buy no tickets for that train
Ain't no shore to that sea
I know
I shall
Be free