John Flynn - Put Your Freedom Where Your Mouth Is Lyrics

Put Your Freedom Where Your Mouth Is
John Flynn
Album: Two Wolves

There's a young man
In a prison
Somewhere far across the sea

And his body's
Being broken
In the name of you and me

He's been charged with
No offenses
And convicted of no crime

He's protected
By no law there
And he's running out of time

Put your freedom where your mouth is
In a land of liberty
You can't say
Nothing about this
'cause no tortured man is free

There's a woman
Being beaten
By the police in the place
Where she wheres her
Subjugation
Like a vale across her face

It's a monster
We've created
So we don't dare to protest

Cuz it's oil
Is like black milk
And we suckle at it's breast

Put your freedom where your mouth is
In a land of liberty
You can't say
Nothing about this
'cause no beaten woman's free



Now a child's
Belly's empty
And he's crying from the pain

And his mother
Soon will leave him
To the virus in her vein

And his future
Ain't much brighter than the color of his skin
If you have not
Heard him weeping
Then it's time that you begin

Put your freedom where your mouth is
In a land of liberty
You can't say
Nothing about this
'cause no hungry child is free

There's a student
And he's gathering
Up his text books in the dirt

'cause they did not
Like the slogan
He had printed on his shirt

And they say he
Got off easy
And they say next time he won't

But he'll keep wearing that t-shirt
Because they win if you don't

Put your freedom where your mouth is
In a land of liberty
You can't say
Nothing about this
'cause no silent person's free