A window to yesterday and a time passed
Strengthened by the generations before it.
A foundation of prosperity,
Of supermarkets overflowing,
Of gasoline reservoirs overflowing,
Of checkbooks overflowing.
Yesterday's now gone,
A fading image.
Rear-view mirror.
Liberty used to be a thing worth fighting for,
Worth dying for.
Now the universities usin' it to mop up the floor.
O' good Lord, we know you gonna' set things right.
How much longer will it be?
How much worse can it get?
Mama', what's going to happen?
Liberty, is she really free?
What about the lives it cost to keep her?
Who's going to set us free?
Free as we yearn to be?
At a moment like it,
Jehovah says to me,
"I got you."
Oh' Lord, He's got me.
Christ creatin' new life in me.
Oh' Lord, He's got me.
He's even got liberty.
God knows, someday soon, she'll fly again.
Fly like an eagle.
Soaring prominently.
Liberty gonna' return.
They'll see through the lies.
See through the shame.
Liberty's gonna fly.
Soar.
Soar prominently.
Just you wait and see!
Once upon a time, we felt so safe.
Safe out here in the country.
Watching them in the city,
Them in the hills,
Going stark mad.
Seemed absurd to think one day
The tanks could come rolling down our private, ol', country, dirt road.
Didn't even have to.
They had their war instruments comin', 24/7,
Filling the heads of the Young'n's,
Right there in our own living rooms.
Got their cameras everywhere,
Ain't got no privacy,
And people don't seem to care.
How much longer will it be?
How much worse can it get?
Mama', what's going to happen?
Liberty, is she really free?
What about the lives it cost to keep her?
Who's going to set us free?
Free as we yearn to be?
At a moment like it,
Jehovah says to me,
"I got you."
Oh' Lord, He's got me.
Christ creatin' new life in me.
Oh' Lord, He's got me.
He's even got liberty.
God knows, someday soon, she'll fly again.
Fly like an eagle.
Soaring prominently.
Liberty gonna' return.
They'll see through the lies.
See through the shame.
Liberty's gonna fly.
Soar.
Soar prominently.
Just you wait and see!
Folks around these parts been calling me a worldly Christian.
Been calling me a conspiracy theorist.
I tell 'em back, saying, 'you know them by their fruit'.
Well, it apply to institutions too.
Ain't in Christian charity to give up on God's creation too soon.
Ain't also so giving up on people who don't comprehend.
Who can't comprehend.
Sin's got a hold of 'em.
Ain't gonna' let 'em free.
Doing same it did to you and me.
Before we were ransomed, liberated, set free.
A personal liberty.
How much longer will it be?
How much worse can it get?
Mama', what's going to happen?
Liberty, is she really free?
What about the lives it cost to keep her?
Who's going to set us free?
Free as we yearn to be?
At a moment like it,
Jehovah says to me,
"I got you."
Oh' Lord, He's got me.
Christ creatin' new life in me.
Oh' Lord, He's got me.
He's even got liberty.
God knows, someday soon, she'll fly again.
Fly like an eagle.
Soaring prominently.
Liberty gonna' return.
They'll see through the lies.
See through the shame.
Liberty's gonna fly.
Soar.
Soar prominently.
Just you wait and see!
But can't you see it's the way it's always been?
Ain't no hope for worldly leadership.
Always turning to tyranny.
A good ruler will come,
Makes things as they ought to be.
Another follows, wickedly destroying the legacy.
Destined to be.
Only a few things we can count upon.
That is, Jehovah's supremacy, Christ's victory and the persistence of liberty.
Well know them by their fruits.
God Himself gave liberty roots.
One day soon, supermarkets gonna' overflow, gasoline reservoirs gonna' overflow. And checkbooks gonna' overflow.
Cities and the Hills gonna' be plowed into fields.
People gonna' rejoice.
Liberty's the only one who cares about us.
Same way Jehovah cares about us.
Live long,
Live free.
If we can grasp this elementary certainty,
As a world
And as a Church,
We'll find worldwide liberty.
How much longer will it be?
How much worse can it get?
Mama', what's going to happen?
Liberty, is she really free?
What about the lives it cost to keep her?
Who's going to set us free?
Free as we yearn to be?
At a moment like it,
Jehovah says to me,
"I got you."
Oh' Lord, He's got me.
Christ creatin' new life in me.
Oh' Lord, He's got me.
He's even got liberty.
God knows, someday soon, she'll fly again.
Fly like an eagle.
Soaring prominently.
Liberty gonna' return.
They'll see through the lies.
See through the shame.
Liberty's gonna fly.
Soar.
Soar prominently.
Just you wait and see!
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