The song is about how we have all this freedom, yet we don't even think about it and we take it for granted. "What's a flag in a pawn shop to me?" To you, someone who lives in a free country where you are able to take your nation's flag to a pawn shop and trade it for a guitar, the flag doesn't symbolize anything. It's just cloth.
To someone from somewhere else that isn't a "free" country (like the baby in the last verse. It's not a literal baby), it is an amazing thing. The "baby' would give anything to have the right to take his nation's flag to a pawn shop, but he can't because his country isn't free. "May he forget why he is crying/someday." May he one day have freedom and be able to forget about it and take it for granted one day as well.
Freedom never cries because if you have freedom then it is something that you don't think about, and if you don't have freedom then it can't cry because it doesn't exist to you.
The chorus is saying how a person can do all sorts of things FOR freedom, but freedom itself doesn't make itself known when you have it.
The song is about how we have all this freedom, yet we don't even think about it and we take it for granted. "What's a flag in a pawn shop to me?" To you, someone who lives in a free country where you are able to take your nation's flag to a pawn shop and trade it for a guitar, the flag doesn't symbolize anything. It's just cloth.
To someone from somewhere else that isn't a "free" country (like the baby in the last verse. It's not a literal baby), it is an amazing thing. The "baby' would give anything to have the right to take his nation's flag to a pawn shop, but he can't because his country isn't free. "May he forget why he is crying/someday." May he one day have freedom and be able to forget about it and take it for granted one day as well.
Freedom never cries because if you have freedom then it is something that you don't think about, and if you don't have freedom then it can't cry because it doesn't exist to you.
The chorus is saying how a person can do all sorts of things FOR freedom, but freedom itself doesn't make itself known when you have it.