Put Your Freedom Where Your Mouth Is Lyrics

Put Your Freedom Where Your Mouth Is
John Flynn
Album: Two WolvesThere's a young man
In a prison
Somewhere far across the seaAnd his body's
Being broken
In the name of you and meHe's been charged with
No offenses
And convicted of no crimeHe's protected
By no law there
And he's running out of timePut your freedom where your mouth is
In a land of liberty
You can't say
Nothing about this
'cause no tortured man is freeThere's a woman
Being beaten
By the police in the place
Where she wheres her

Subjugation
Like a vale across her faceIt's a monster
We've created
So we don't dare to protestCuz it's oil
Is like black milk
And we suckle at it's breastPut your freedom where your mouth is
In a land of liberty
You can't say
Nothing about this
'cause no beaten woman's free[Bridge]Now a child's
Belly's empty
And he's crying from the painAnd his mother
Soon will leave him
To the virus in her veinAnd his future
Ain't much brighter than the color of his skin
If you have not
Heard him weeping
Then it's time that you beginPut your freedom where your mouth is
In a land of liberty
You can't say
Nothing about this
'cause no hungry child is freeThere's a student
And he's gathering
Up his text books in the dirt'cause they did not
Like the slogan
He had printed on his shirtAnd they say he
Got off easy
And they say next time he won'tBut he'll keep wearing that t-shirt
Because they win if you don'tPut your freedom where your mouth is
In a land of liberty
You can't say
Nothing about this
'cause no silent person's free