Last night I was free
Outside in the field
Where we both fell in love
Then I knew it was real
You put me outside
I was singing a song
You looked to the window
But I was already gone

The willows were whipping
And licking like tongues
And the skin like the heaven's
The clouds in our lungs
I saw my reflection in the dark, dirty glass
I think about you, and I think of the past

If you wanna be free, don't think about me
Don't you look in my eyes
Don't you hang around me no more

The thing that you want is what is killing me
Don't you dare take my hand
If you want to be free, oh no

Your face like a painting
Your historic mind
But you'll barely survive
And you're barely alive
Those rules of lost days that we buried in time
I carried the baby, it felt dead inside

When you carried my child
I planted my seed,
I know it was wrong, but you know what I need
You saw it in my eyes when you were looking at me
Keep dug at my door where your love sets me free

If you wanna be free, don't think about me
Don't you look in my eyes,
Don't you hang around me no more

And the thing that you want is the thing that's killing me
Don't you dare take my hand
If you won't be free, oh no


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