To Be Free - Fontella Bass

I think I’ll go down by the river

Gonna sit out and try to rest my mind

All the things I’ve been trying to face

Gonna leave them all behind

Watching the boats go by

Oh, and may even cry

But I’ll be free, if it’s only for a little while

I’ll be free

I can’t live, I say I can’t live life-memory

Yesterday, yesterday is dead and gone

Tomorrow, tomorrow may not even see the dawn

If I had the wings of a bird above

I’ll fly somewhere way up in the sky

Just to be free, if it’s only for a little while

I’ll be free

Rumbling, rumbling through my soul

Searching for my mind

Looking for a reason for living

I’m so tired of dying

Looking back over my life

Tring to remember where I’ve been

Thinking about the rivers are yet to cross

And wondering where I’m going

If only I could make the whole world see

Just what it would really really mean to me

To be free, if it’s only for a little while

To be free

To be free

To be free…