Hard Times for Liberty

Don’t know what to say

Hangin’ on day to day

Look around all I see

Hard times for liberty

Saw a man shot in the back

Guilty of being black

Shadows of slavery

Hard times for liberty

Hard times

Hard times for liberty

When a lady looks so sweet

She ain’t your piece of meat

Just wants to be let be

Hard times for liberty

Work hard to pay the bills

So broke I need those pills

Feel trapped can’t break free

Hard times for liberty

Hard times

Hard times for liberty

If all of us ain’t free

We don’t have liberty

Be who you will be

Fight for your liberty

Muslims pray on their knees

Y’all just let ‘em be

Only love can set us free

Hard times for liberty

Lots of folks on the street

Need food a place to sleep

Need hope not sympathy

Hard times for liberty

Hard times

Hard times for liberty

Mountain man won’t bake a cake

Says it’s for God’s sake

God hates your bigotry

Hard times for liberty

Don’t know what to say

Hangin’ on day to day

Look around all I see

Hard times for liberty

Hard times

Hard times for liberty

© Copyright 2018 DarkEnergyMatter Music. All rights reserved. Words and music by DarkEnergyMatter. Composed July 28, 2018. Recorded at the Sierra Mountain Studio in September and October 2018. Final mix completed, mastered and released November 19, 2018. Remixed and mastered November 25, 2018.

I was working on the arrangement for this song when Ayla and Beau wanted to sing. I set up the microphones and recorded the first verse with them. A special thank you to Beau and Ayla for a great sing-a-long.

If you care about democracy and the Constitution, then these are hard times for you. As long as we allow hatred, discrimination and racism in this country, we will not have full liberty. We only can truly have liberty when we all do.

ISRC: QZHN31910793

ISWC: T-302.202.922-3

BMI Work No. 47952806