NeiL Young: UnReleased version ~ Rockin' In The Free World 1989 ~ New York ~With vIDeo~ live

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There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign
on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin'
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.

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.

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts 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 will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.

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.

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We 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.

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.

".

"Freedom relaunched Neil Young's career, after a mostly unsuccessful decade. After many arguments (and a lawsuit), Young left Geffen Records and returned to his original label, Reprise, in 1988 with This Note's for You. Freedom, however, brought about a new, critical and commercially successful album in the mold of his 1979 classic album, Rust Never Sleeps. Both albums consist of live songs with the audience track mainly removed. Freedom also contains one song, "Rockin' in the Free World", bookending the album in acoustic and electric variants, a stylistic choice previously featured on Rust Never Sleeps. "Rockin' in the Free World" became, despite lyrics critical of the George H. W. Bush administration ("we got a thousand points of light"), the de facto anthem of the collapse of communism (specifically the Fall of the Berlin Wall) due to its repeated chorus of 'Keep on Rockin' in the Free World'.

An edited cut of the electric version of "Rockin' in The Free World" was also used over the final credits of Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11, and the song was rereleased as a single at the time of the film's release.

Stylistically the album was one of Young's most diverse records, ranging from acoustic love songs to raging rockers. Three of the songs on Freedom ("Don't Cry," "Eldorado" and "On Broadway") had previously been released on the Japan and Australia-only EP Eldorado, and in a way represented Young's reaction to the Grunge movement, featuring heavy waves of thundering distortion and feedback (often strangely juxtaposed with quieter sections). Two songs featured a brass section, an unusual stylistic departure for Young, but one he had embraced fully on his previous album This Note's For You." (Wikipedia)

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[southofcali]

Incredible song with beautiful photographs to emphasize the message. Fantastic job on this. Thanks for sharing it.

[curiousgeorge555]

@southofcali Hey, thanks for the comment!

[bobaby7777]

Great job!!!!

[curiousgeorge555]

@bobaby7777 Thanx

[snood1205]

Love the song and AMAZINGLY made video!

[curiousgeorge555]

@snood1205 (-;

[harmonicaman008]

Neil has an incredible power to send chills down your spine. as soon as the harmonica began, you feel it to the bone. This is what you call REAL music.

[limegreendarlene]

OMG, this is EXCELLENT, curiousgeorge.

[11xzxzxz]

Oh and what is the term for who sound like they like to use big words? Sesquipedalians. I may not have read a book since school but I did try to read the dictionary in prep for my college boards and it really paid dividends - unlike college.

[11xzxzxz]

Another cool video from you Jack. Photos are great and the movie term for juxtaposationandcrosscutting foregroundandbackground is? Neil background ( a man of and for the people) and the people in the foreground (who are fuel to burn for the capitalistic ozone layer) reminds me of the some vintage movie such as Grapes of Wrath (actually I never read the book or saw the movie but as you know I haven't really ever read a book). Just curious about what it's called movie-wise terminology..?

[henkn2]

Never heard this version before. Interesting vid as well. Good job. Thanks

[Pedy1968]

Thumbs up for this GREAT song!!!

[Saurav26100]

its gr8

[skymon42]

i cant get enough of his acoustic stuff