Songwriter: Paula Cole
Producer: Paula Cole
[Verse 1]
I keep walking down the same city streets
The same city lines to the same lonely beat
People say hello but I don't know what to say
I don't know how I feel, I just can't act that way
[Pre-Chorus]
I wanna hide from all these strangers
I wanna run home to you
All I need is your compassion
[Chorus]
Then we can be free, yes
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free
[Verse 2]
Oh, the way I'm shut out by your silence
It's the loudest thing I've ever known
You leave me, leave me hanging
'Til I feel useless with my hope
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, it's lonely in the city
It can be lonely next to you
Just have the courage to open up to yourself
[Chorus]
Then we can be free, yes
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free
I just wanna be free
Oh, I wanna be free, yeah, yes, yes
I wanna be free
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, it's lonely in the city
It can be lonely next to you
Just have the courage to open up yourself and
[Chorus]
We can be free, yes
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free
I just wanna be free
Oh, I wanna be free
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free
I just, I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free
I keep walking down the same city streets
The same city lines to the same lonely beat
People say hello but I don't know what to say
I don't know how I feel, I just can't act that way
[Pre-Chorus]
I wanna hide from all these strangers
I wanna run home to you
All I need is your compassion
[Chorus]
Then we can be free, yes
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free
[Verse 2]
Oh, the way I'm shut out by your silence
It's the loudest thing I've ever known
You leave me, leave me hanging
'Til I feel useless with my hope
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, it's lonely in the city
It can be lonely next to you
Just have the courage to open up to yourself
[Chorus]
Then we can be free, yes
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free
I just wanna be free
Oh, I wanna be free, yeah, yes, yes
I wanna be free
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, it's lonely in the city
It can be lonely next to you
Just have the courage to open up yourself and
[Chorus]
We can be free, yes
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free
I just wanna be free
Oh, I wanna be free
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free
I just, I wanna be free, yes
I wanna be free
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Amen (1999)
Paula Cole popular songs
- I Don’t Want to Wait
- Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
- I Am So Ordinary
- Lovelight
- Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? (edit)
- God Bless The Child
- Me - remastered
- Hush, hush, hush. - remastered
- Carmen
- Mississippi
- Why Don’t You Go?
- Garden of Eden
- Be Somebody
- Lonelytown
- I Wanna Kiss You
- The Ladder
- Amen
- P.R.E.N.U.P.
- God Is Watching
- Me
- 14
- Throwing Stones
- Eloise
- Oh John