IF ONLY...
If only I can be free
Taking in the fresh breadth
Of life into my lungs
Breaking into songs
All day long; in raptures
of the reality of freedom.
If only I can be free
Smiling to the world
Without fear of duty
Music unfading
All year round, soul searching
Of the beauty of liberty
Oh! Only to be free
Void of the burden;
Another man’s duty
To watch, tend and care
Seems insane, but real
And my cry- if only, if only…
Taking in the fresh breadth
Of life into my lungs
Breaking into songs
All day long; in raptures
of the reality of freedom.
If only I can be free
Smiling to the world
Without fear of duty
Music unfading
All year round, soul searching
Of the beauty of liberty
Oh! Only to be free
Void of the burden;
Another man’s duty
To watch, tend and care
Seems insane, but real
And my cry- if only, if only…
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