FREE - CHILD

CHILD

FREE

SONGWRITER: PAUL BERNARD RODGERS

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: FREE AT LAST

LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES ROCK

YEAR: 1972

Paul Bernard Rodgers (born 17 December 1949) is an English singer, songwriter and musician, best known for his success in the 1960s and 1970s as vocalist of Free and Bad Company. He now lives in Canada as a naturalized Canadian citizen. After stints in two less successful bands in the 1980s and early 1990s, The Firm and The Law, he became a solo artist. He has more recently toured and recorded with Queen. Rodgers has been dubbed "The Voice" by his fans. A poll in Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 55 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In 2011 Rodgers received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. 

Child you're talking of freedom

Painted on your garden wall

It's not there at all

Child you're talking of wisdom

You say wisdom is a golden rule

You ain't no fool

But you don't know who it is

Who calls you name

In the light of the golden moon

You don't know who it is who brought you here

And chained up your heart

So soon

Child you're life is a fairytale

And it's not the same

And the clouds

You're hiding behind

In your misty mind have disappeared

Like a sailor far from the shores of your dreams

And far from the love of your home

Sailor lost on your own misty seas

And the chains on your heart, baby

Might be my love

Might be my love

It's so confusing

And you feel that you're loosing yourself

But, there over the mountain

You thought you'd never have to climb

There's a road

Reaching and stretching

To the corner of your mind

Like a river casts aside the dust

And grows and grows as it flows

The feeling deep inside of you

Must break like a dam

So set you free

So set you free

So set you free