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Some Kind of Freedom

from Sighting Shots by Dave Pierce

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From childhood onwards, we all search for our most comfortable identities, shape shifting to the tunes of guides and fellow travellers until we find who we want to be. This song is set at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London in the late1970’s, where soapbox orators addressed their speeches to those attracted from the passing crowd. Through cameos of the various characters, it paints a cultural picture of the time, which perhaps resonates still today.

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SOME KIND OF FREEDOM

Take this man of constant sorrow with a passion to be Jesus,
Fishing for apostles from the flotsam in Hyde Park,
With a Kindly Yorkshire angel, head-to-foot in biker's leather,
And an Aussie horse-race gambler on sabbatical from work.
Are you listening, are you searching, are you open to conversing?
Will a Buddhist meet a skeptic in communion dialectic?
Feed your spirit in the cafe until dark!

You with your Bible, me with my band,
Graffiti artist with the spray-can in his hand,
Motorbike hero and sex-symbol queen,
We're all looking for some kind of freedom.

See the kaftan lotus-eater, arm in arm with a kibbutznik,
And a pair of easy riders hippy-trailing to Tibet,
Taking time out from free-loving to buy psychedelic posters
And rock music, mind-expanding, synergistically with pot.
Are you listening, are you searching, are you open to conversing?
Will the moment existential trip into the transcendental?
Feed your spirit on the pleasures newly met!

You with your Bible, me with my band,
Graffiti artist with the spray-can in his hand,
Motorbike hero and sex-symbol queen,
We're all looking for some kind of freedom.

Hear an Arab agitator advocating racial violence,
Next to US draft-card burners trying to put an end to war,
And a feminist fomenter, dungareed in stonewashed denim,
Loudly criticising menfolk in the mode of Germaine Greer.
Are you listening, are you searching, are you open to conversing?
Will a pacifist protestor tangle with a Tory heckler?
Feed your spirit, fight your battles evermore!

You with your Bible, me with my band,
Graffiti artist with the spray-can in his hand,
Motorbike hero and sex-symbol queen,
We're all looking for some kind of freedom.

Some get high debating universal truth and reason,
Others buzz on pleasure, risk, necessity and chance,
While the poser-fixers mix it with the politics of violence,
And the message in the zeitgeist struggles bravely to make sense.
Are you listening, are you searching, are you open to conversing?
Philosophically speaking, will your mind be at the meeting?
Feed your spirit, feel the rhythm, join the dance!

You with your Bible, me with my band,
Graffiti artist with the spray-can in his hand,
Motorbike hero and sex-symbol queen,
We're all looking for some kind of freedom.

Are you looking for your kind of freedom?

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from Sighting Shots, released October 30, 2019
Words and music by Dave Pierce.

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Dave Pierce Saint Neots, UK

Dave Pierce is a Cambridgeshire-based folk /roots songwriter who has been performing his own songs in folk clubs since the early 70’s. Rooted in the English and American folk traditions, his song topics range widely from folk tales to contemporary issues. ... more

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