Freedom Is A Verb lyrics

[Verse 1]

You can fight a war with drones

You can fight a war with loans

You can fight a war with gas

Or cans of paint

But don't you realize

That the game's compromise

If you think that this is something that it ain't

'Cause we got images of murder

That don't manage to disturb

An international order that is bordering absurd

And no one gets the freedom they were told that they deserve

'Till they realize that freedom's not a noun;

[Chorus]

It's a verb! It's a verb!

Freedom is a verb!

Something never finished, never done!

It's something you must make

It's something you must take

It's something you must constantly become

[Verse 2]

Well this weekend revolution is a radical inclusion

It's a holiday of popular revolt

It's the social interactions

Of a consequential actions

Using faces to replace a silent vote

But lower pay and higher rents—

Another kind of violence—

The violence of silence

And of greed

It's the violence of feeling

Your irrelevance revealing

Every way in which you never will be freed

[Chorus]

It's a verb! It's a verb!

An action and an urge!

As fertile as the barrel of a gun!

And it happens out of need

It's a fire and a seed

And it's terrible potential has begun

[Verse 3]

Well they'll tell you that your liberty

Is constantly in jeopardy

It's something you must loyalty defend

But isn't it demeaning

When you well-intended meanings

Mean your means'll have to justify your ends!

So improvise a barricade

Of furniture cascading

It's a carnaval of helmets in the flood

For the bottles can be filled with either gasoline or lager

Or detergent that'll wash away your blood!

[Chorus]

It's a verb! It's a verb!

Freedom is a verb!

Something never finished, never done!

It's something you can fake

And it's something that'll break

If it ain't something that you constantly become!

It's a verb! It's a verb!

An action and an urge!

As fertile as the barrel of a gun!

And it happens out of need

It's a fire and a seed

And it's terrible potential has begun

• Artist:Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
• Album:The Butcher's Share