{"id":4821,"date":"2013-11-13T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2015-02-16T10:26:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T10:26:54","slug":"code-ode-battle-to-be-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/friends-of-cvm\/code-ode-battle-to-be-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Code Ode: Battle to be free"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI can\u2019t tolerate intolerance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read this out loud:<\/strong><\/p>\n

You got \u2018morality\u2019
\nI got plurality.
\nIf something\u2019s right for me
\nI guess I might agree.
\nLike, if it\u2019s for your view, or not.
\nLike, is it false or true, so what?
\nStuff debate–
\nTolerate.
\n\u2018Cause that is what is the
\n<\/i>Most valued quality.
\nWe know that we got free
\nFrom all your bigotry.<\/p>\n

So, <\/i>you say you don\u2019t hate.
\n<\/i>You say you tolerate;
\n<\/i>Say you \u2018value\u2019 my view
\n<\/i>And hey that\u2019s cool with you.
\n<\/i>But if I say my view\u2019s\u2014get this!
\n<\/i>The only way that\u2019s true\u2014big hiss!
\n<\/i>That\u2019s not cool
\n<\/i>Breaks your rule.
\n<\/i>That\u2019s your forbidden stance
\n<\/i>That\u2019s your intolerance.
\n<\/i>\u2018Cause, hi! I\u2019m in your face,
\n<\/i>That\u2019s why I\u2019m in disgrace.<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

I say I\u2019m free to be
\nWhatever seems to me
\nTo be OK to me.
\nThere is no way that we
\nWould ever, ever be\u2014slaves
\nCould never, never be\u2014have
\nTo conform
\nTo your norm.
\nI\u2019m never gonna be
\nOne of your wannabees.
\nNo I don\u2019t rate your name
\nSo I won\u2019t play your game.<\/p>\n

Your freedom seems to be
\n<\/i>Just in your dreams to me.
\n<\/i>It\u2019s just some fantasy.
\n<\/i>Come on you have to see
\n<\/i>We\u2019re all hard-wired to be\u2014slaves.
\n<\/i>Don\u2019t need to try to be\u2014have
\n<\/i>As slave to
\n<\/i>What or who
\n<\/i>Get\u2019s us to feel inspired
\n<\/i>Or feeds our deep desire,
\n<\/i>All neatly wrapped inside
\n<\/i>Our fear, trapped anger, pride.<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

That\u2019s layin\u2019 things on thick!
\nSome things they make me tick.
\nSome things I pick and choose
\n(Don\u2019t think there\u2019s much to lose).
\nSome<\/i> things, they<\/i> say \u2018I\u2019m me.\u2019
\nThey\u2019re<\/i> the things that drive me.
\nThere\u2019s no danger
\nFrom no stranger.
\nNo-one else at large,
\n\u2018Cause I\u2019ve put me in charge.
\nMy drives won\u2019t give me heat.
\nI\u2019m in the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n

So go and serve them well,
\n<\/i>Go build a personal hell.
\n<\/i>Be king in there, alone.
\n<\/i>A king on his own throne,
\n<\/i>A child, that\u2019s of our age.
\n<\/i>Beguiled, at center stage.
\n<\/i>Locked inside
\n<\/i>Your own pride.
\n<\/i>What is your only choice?
\n<\/i>It is\u2014who\u2019ll own the voice?
\n<\/i>The one you <\/i>will obey;
\n<\/i>The one who\u2019ll hold your sway.<\/i><\/p>\n

Suppose I see I\u2019m made
\nAlways to be enslaved.
\nOK, if serve I must,
\nThen say whose worth my trust.
\nWho could my master be, now?
\nKeep me disaster free\u2014how?
\nNo one cares
\nLike me, there\u2019s
\nNo-one else I see
\nWho can love me like me.
\nI\u2019m not just as a rule
\nSucked in just like a fool.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s one who\u2019ll stand with you
\n<\/i>Who cares more than you do.
\n<\/i>To serve him\u2019s why you\u2019re \u00a0made.
\n<\/i>A price for you\u2019s been paid.
\n<\/i>It cost an infinite, cost,
\n<\/i>Cost him his life, lost.
\n<\/i>Fools are wise
\n<\/i>In their eyes.
\n<\/i>So think, do you despise
\n<\/i>What is the truth for lies?
\n<\/i>And might you only be
\n<\/i>Free in his slavery?<\/i><\/p>\n

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