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Alice Cooper - Freedom

Freedom is a 1987 single by rock singer Alice Cooper, taken from his 10th solo studio album, Raise Your Fist and Yell. It was written by Alice Cooper and Kane Roberts.

The song was the only single released from Raise Your Fist and Yell. It did not chart in the US when it was released in late-1987, however it reached #50 on the UK charts in early-1988. The single's B-Side in both countries was the album track "Time to Kill".

It was Cooper's last single to be released by MCA Inc. until 1992 when Geffen Records (bought by MCA in 1990) released the Guns N' Roses song "The Garden" from Use Your Illusion I as a single, Cooper being a guest on that track.

The lyrics:

We the people of the United States

In order to form a more perfect union

Stop pretending that you've never been bad

You're never wrong and you've never been dirty

You're such a saint, that ain't the way we see you

You want to rule us with an iron hand

You change the lyrics and become big brother

This ain't Russia, you ain't my dad or mother

They never knew anyway

'Cause I never walk away from what I know is right

But I'm gonna turn my back on you

Freedom, we're gonna ring the bell

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk

Freedom, raise your fist and yell

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk

Freedom ring

You're playing God from your ivory tower

Back off preacher, I don't care if it's Sunday

I ain't no angel but I never felt better

We're a make-up metal degeneration

We're not as stupid as you want to make us

You better leave us, man

'Cause you sure can't take us

Nobody better tell you how to live your life

But you gotta do it on your own

Freedom, we're gonna ring the bell

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk

Freedom, raise your fist and yell

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk

Freedom

'Cause I never walk away from what I know is right

But I'm gonna turn my back on you

Freedom, we're gonna ring the bell

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk

Freedom, raise your fist and yell

Freedom

Freedom, we're gonna ring the bell

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk

Freedom, raise your fist and yell

Freedom

Freedom, we're gonna ring that bell

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk

Freedom, come on, raise your fist and yell

Freedom

Freedom, we're gonna ring that bell

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk

Freedom, raise your fist, raise your fist

Raise your fist