Billy said in a YouTube video, where he talks about his albums, that this song was “just me lashing out about everything that I hate about going to college.”
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[Verse 1]
People that have no clue what they're doing with their lives
Passed out in a pool of their own vomit
Next to a room where teenage girls are drugged out and potentially assaulted
The bureaucracy is almost just as bad as the armed robberies
And drama queens
And all the garbage on the streets
And the smoke clouds from the people walking in front of me
It's fun to see a shuffle of prototyped people
A lot of them look just like me
They act like me
They dress like me
They talk like me
I'm forgetting what I just might be
Am I just like them?
Are they just like me?
[Chorus]
And I have to wait
I'm dying by the day
[Verse 2]
Banners cover the sidewalks
Like I'm in Nazi Germany
And the worst thing is it shouldn't even bother me
In 45 minutes to freedom from propaganda lobotomy
And quite frankly I'm starving myself cause I gotta eat
But these ten minutes that I have between these classes are the death of me
[Chorus]
And I have to wait
I'm dying by the day
And I have to wait
Til' the end of the day
[Bridge]
Sometimes I see
Potential
[Outro (Part I)]
And my winter coat is not warm enough
To prevent this cold
And my nostrils are flaming with the overwhelming stench of cigarettes
And I don't smoke
It's just the people I know
It's just the people I know
It's just the people I know
[Outro (Part II)]
So goddamn cold
So goddamn cold
So goddamn cold
So goddamn cold
So goddamn cold
So goddamn cold
So goddamn cold
So goddamn cold
So goddamn cold (And my winter coat)
So goddamn cold (Is not warm enough)
So goddamn cold (To prevent this cold)
So goddamn cold (And my nostrils)
So goddamn cold (Are flaming with)
So goddamn cold (The overwhelming)
So goddamn cold (Stench of cigarettes)
So goddamn cold
So!
45 Minutes to Freedom was written by Billy Cobb.
45 Minutes to Freedom was produced by Billy Cobb.
Billy Cobb released 45 Minutes to Freedom on Sun Dec 09 2018.