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Artist: Frank Zappa
Canonical path: /frank-zappa/teenage-wind
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Teenage Wind
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Teenage Wind
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It's a miserable friday night
I'm so lonely
And nobody'll give me a ride
To the grateful dead concert...oh rats!
I got to be free
Free as the wind
Free is the way
I got to be
Maybe i'm lost
Maybe i sinned
I got to be
Totally free
Our parents don't love us
Our teachers they say
Things that are boring
So we're running away
And we will be free
And people will see
That when we are free
That's the way we should be
Nothing left to do but get out the 'ol
Glue
(sniff it good now...)
Our parents don't love us
Our teachers they say
Things that are boring
So we're running away
And we will be free
And people will see
That when we are free
That's the way we should be
(we must be free!)
The glue! the glue! i can't find the glue!
(we must be free as the wind)
If i was at the concert now, i'd be ripped!
(we were free when we were born)
I could tighten my headband for an extra rush
During jerry's guitar solo
Then i could go to a midnite show of 200 motels!
(we were born free, but, now we are not free anymore!)
"opal, you hot little bitch!"
"you can take this pin n' hang it in yer ass!"
"you ain't the devil!"
"where's my waitress?"
But we wanna be free
An' were gonna be free
Yes, we want to be free and we're gonna be free
... did you know that
Free is when you don't have to
Pay for nothing
Or do nothing
We want to be free
Free as the wind
Free is when you don't have to
Pay for nothing
Or do nothing
We want to be free
Free as the wind
Free is when you don't have to
Pay for nothing
Or do nothing
We want to be free
Free as the wind
Free is when you don't have to
Pay for nothing
Or do nothing
We want to be free
Free as the wind
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