To Be a Free Man

[Verse 1]
Barney put the coffee on, cause I'm late for work again
Another day at the office, wonder what kinda perks I get
I am an MIT alumni ever heard of it?
Sure you did, I got a PHD, but now I’m earning it
Building up my resume at Black Mesa
Employee of the month, they should have a plaque with my name up
I'll hang up my lab jacket, grab a new hazard suit
Just in case a resonance cascade should happen soon
Who ever thought a book-smart geek could go so hard
Even acquired a minor degree in crowbars
No joke, Gordon got more balls than a Gonarch
Head Crabs wanna grab my dome, cause I'm so smart
I’m not one for talking, but I got an arsenal
Forget my doctorate when a gun makes any problem solvable
I am anomalous, like a subatomic quantum particle
The odds of starting an apocalypse went from none to probable
I'm picking up steam and running amok
Cleaning out the marines who think that they'll cover this up
I'll paint the wall with their brains, call that a Black Mesa layoff
When you enter this facility, you know who's laid law
Don't call me crazy I got plenty of Xen
I'll annihilate any Nihilanth who's letting them in
If I clock any overtime, I an’t doing it for free, man
At least give me some praise, okay, gee man

[Chorus]
What makes your life worth living?
Who’s making your decisions?
Strung up by puppet strings, but no one else can see them
When this dimension crashes
Wake up and smell the ashes
Trapped in a half life with a dream to be a free man

[Verse 2]
I need another coffee, have I been sleeping on the job?
Doesn't matter this time, I arrived right on the dot
Doctor Breen, what have you done to City 17
Call up a janitor, cause we got another mess to clean
It only took the alien invasion all of seven hours
To enslave us and then make an overcompensating tower
Now I need a team of physicists to see the resistance through
Cause so far I’ve been solo, is Alyx single too?
This D0g's bite is bigger than it's bark, I've
Upgraded from Mark IV to Mark V
Charge up, now we’ll divide and conquer the Combine
Buckle up buggers, because you're in for a long ride
Comes another unstoppable force, the source of which is Gordon
I govern gravity, I'll send you soaring to orbit
Back at Black Mesa I slaughtered a Vortigaunt herd
But now I work with them, sorry this is awkward
No bars will hold us, Nova Prospekt
My crowbar is blood-soaked, you got wrecked
Made it through Ravenholm, somehow I kept my head
What's the story with Father Grigori? Left for dead
Theoretically speaking, I'm a benevolent being
But with relativity, intent has no meaning
Hands up when you see the lambda, doesn't matter what your race is
I'm Freeman, G-Man, I'll never stay in stasis

[Chorus]
What makes your life worth living?
Who's making your decisions?
Strung up by puppet strings, but no one else can see them
When this dimension crashes
Wake up and smell the ashes
Trapped in a half life with a dream to be a free man

[Outro]
I won't let any dimensional freak overwork me
Time to spill his cryptic secrets now in verse 3...
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