We Were Free
(Bob Dylan Was My Brother)

Bob Dylan was my brother
I could have been his blue eyed son
He taught me how to pick and choose
And stay forever young
I heard the sounds of silence
Blowing in the wind
And I've always been experienced
Pretty much because of him

I'm a child of the sixties
And a gambler on the road
I looked at life from both sides
Now and then
Some dreams have lost their grandeur
And although I'm growing old
I still can hear the music we sang when:

We were free
We were freer than the rain
We were wild and insane
We did everything we could
We did nothing that we should
It was peace that we achieved
And in love that we believed
We were free.

Janis Joplin was my mother
I could have been her lover too
She taught me how to pray to god
and how to play the blues
I was so much older then
I'm bolder than that now
When I imagine being there again
I feel I'm homeward bound

I'm a child of the sixties and a rambler on the road
I looked at life from both sides now and then
Some dreams have lost their grandeur
And although I'm growing old
I still can hear the music we sang when:

We were free
We were freer than the rain
We were wild and insane
We did everything we could
We did nothing that we should
In all the dreams that we conceived
It was in love that we believed

Our time was like no other
There was magic in the air
Everyone was family
And everything was shared
You know the truth of what I'm saying
If you were young and had long hair
We were stardust in the garden
And so lucky to be there

We're still children of the sixties
Born and bred on rock and roll
We looked at life from both sides
Now and then
We've learned a lot of lessons,
And although we're growing old
We still can hear the music we sang when…

We were free
We were freer than the rain
We looked beyond the window pane
We did everything we could
We did nothing that we should
It was peace that we achieved
And in love that we believed
We were free.

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"We're still children of the sixties,
born and bred on rock and roll.
We looked at life from both sides
now and then.
We learned a lot of lessons,
and although we're growing old,
we still can hear the music
we sang when:

we were free
we were freer than the rain
we looked beyond the window pane
we did everything we could
we did nothing that we should
it was peace that we achieved
and in love that we believed
we were free"

- We Were Free
(Bob Dylan Was My Brother)