Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Young’s angry indictment of society during the Bush Sr. Era.
The first verse is about the narrator’s every day experiences in society, ending with how they’ve affected him.
The second is him recounting one particularly disturbing example of what society has caused people to do.
The third is a gen...
[Verse 1]
There’s colors on the street
Red, white, and blue
People shuffling their feet
People sleeping in their shoes
There’s a warning sign on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people saying we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it any way I can
[Chorus]
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
[Verse 2]
I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
There's an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she put the kid away and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid that’ll never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool
[Chorus]
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
[Electric Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand
We've got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive
[Chorus]
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Rockin’ in the Free World (Electric) was written by Neil Young & Frank “Poncho” Sampedro.
Rockin’ in the Free World (Electric) was produced by Neil Young & Niko Bolas.
Neil Young released Rockin’ in the Free World (Electric) on Mon Oct 02 1989.
Quoting one of the members of his side band, “Crazy Horse” Neil Young added –
‘It’s better to keep rockin’ in the free world'. It was such a cliché. I knew I had to use it.