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Savage Freedom

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Savage Freedom

Release date: 1st April 1996

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About This Track

"Savage Freedom" is a track by Killing Joke, from the album Democracy, released 1st April 1996. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Killing Joke

Killing Joke

Lyrics

Savage Freedom

[Verse 1]

It's the age of the CV

Contract to contract

And my stress levels rise

This is my job for life

(There are no jobs for life)

I am forced to a decision

I am forced to the other side

I can see a way out of here

I can see a way out of here

[Chorus]

With the hours that we kill

And the dreams that we hide

Of alternative lifestyles

This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love

[Verse 2]

Placards of prophets

And great leaders of men

Personality cults

All over again

(But) we'll build shrines for our loved ones

We'll burn fires and lights

And we'll talk of the old ways

To find new ways that might...

...they just might

[Chorus]

With the hours that we kill

And the dreams that we hide

Of alternative lifestyles

This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love

[Refrain]

This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love

[Verse 3]

In the villages and hills

On the tundra and ice

To the forests of kauri

In the paddies of rice

By the lakes on the plains

To the great mountain range

Love the land and its people

I can see a way out

I can see a way out

[Chorus]

With the hours that we kill

And the dreams that we hide

Of alternative lifestyles

This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love

[Refrain]

This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love

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1996

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Credited: Geordie Walker, Jaz Coleman, Martin Glover