Freedom Doesn't Come For Free lyrics

Come all good people and gather 'round

Let me tell you how it all went down

When a bunch of libertarians came to town

To build their own utopia

They had a certain certainty

Doubt never bothered 'em, no siree

They lived on logic and liberty

In the green hills of New Hampshire

Live free or die trying

You might get eaten by a mountain lion

This old world is gonna leave you crying

So live free or try to live free

They took control of the situation

Banned all the rules and regulations

There would be no more taxation

In their vision of utopia

So, no one came to mend the roads

Streetlights faded and the library closed

And when the garbage overflowed

Bears came sniffin' 'round

Next thing folks started losing their cats

Nothing in the garden but a fresh bear scat

There's a certain logic in acting like that

When you're top of the food chain

Now there's a moral to this affair

If you leave everything to laissez-faire

You may have to wrassle with a bear

In the backstreets of utopia

'Cause freedom can look like something else

A place where everybody has to fend for themselves

Or pretty words trying to cover the smell

Of the stale stench of indifference

Living on logic sounds real good

But people never act the way you think that they should

Bears don't always shit in the woods

And freedom doesn't come for free

Doesn't come for free

Living on logic sounds real good

But people never act the way you think that they should

Bears don't always shit in the woods

And freedom doesn't come for free

• Artist:Billy Bragg
• Album:The Million Things That Never Happened (2021)