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Shock of Freedom

from Clown World by Adam Balbo

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Enslaved in your mind to a kind of misery.
The thrill long gone - misplaced the plot, lost the mystery.
Kneel next to broken chains - ignorant, bitter seed.
Countless ways to fail - taught to fear liberty.

That’s the shock, the shock of freedom
Plowed like the earth, turning like a season
Captive since birth, kicked out of Eden.
That’s the shock, the shock of freedom

Ecstatic at the word: emancipation.
Yet scared to leave the only home you know, the old plantation.
No master to blame now - still distrust every tribe in the nation
You’re master of only one now - left to tame the rage, the frustration

That’s the shock, the shock of freedom
Plowed like the earth, turning like a season
Captive since birth, kicked out of Eden.
That’s the shock, the shock of freedom

Keep your head down - either drown or commune with the sparrow
Stick out your neck and speak up - greeted with slings and arrows
Parade a whole caravan of camels through the eye of a needle
Bulky hate won’t fit through the gate of salvation this narrow

That’s the shock, the shock of freedom
Plowed like the earth, turning like a season
Captive since birth, kicked out of Eden.
That’s the shock, the shock of freedom

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from Clown World, released December 23, 2023

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