There are colors on the street...red, white, and blue

People shufflin' their feet, people sleepin' in their shoes

There's a warnin' sign in the road ahead

There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead

Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them

So I try to forgive 'em, any way I can, yeah...



I see a girl in the night with a baby in her hands

Under an old street light, oh, near a garbage can

Now she put her kid away, she's gone to get a hit

She hates her life, and what she's done with it

That's one more kid, that'll never go to school

Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool



Keep on rockin' in the free world (3x)



(The US of A, the United States

Ain't a free place, it's not a free place

(Ain't got the right to choose, barely got the right to vote

(There they got the right to make an honest buck

The USA ain't a free, free place



There's a thousand points of light for the colored man

There's a kinder, gentler police man's hand

There's department stores, and toilet paper

Styrofoam garbage for the Ozone layer

There's a man of the people, said 'keep hope alive'

Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive

Keep on rockin' in the free world (4x)