Live at the Annex, Bar Harbor, Maine, September 28, 2023
lyrics
When I was young, I feared the down pressor,
For you know I don’t need no master,
Ten years later and I’ve come to see,
No one has done this to me but me.
The jail I’m in is only mine,
Not really caring is the only crime,
My bed is cold, and that’s what I get,
And now that it’s made, I must lie in it.
If I could change all the bad things I’ve done,
If I could give back all the things that I’ve won,
My life would be different, and I know that now
The only thing I don’t know is how.
As I wear my ball and chain,
My dreams of freedom come alive again,
I reach my fingers out to the sky,
But I can’t touch it if I don’t try.
When I was young, I feared the down pressor,
Before you know I don’t need no master,
Thirty years later and I’ve come to see,
No one has done this to me but me.
credits
from Annex '23,
released February 1, 2024
Lyrics and music by Jeff Walls
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