FREEDOM Lyrics
When I move my body just like this
I don't know why but I feel like freedom (Freedom)
I hear a song that takes me back
And I let go with so much freedom (Freedom)
Free to live (How I wanna live)
I'm gon' get (What I'm gonna get)
'Cause it's my freedom (Freedom)
[Verse 1]
I love how you talk
You speaking my language
The way that you walk
You can't contain it
Is it the shoes?
Jumped up, kangaroo
We're overdue for a little more prancing
[Pre-Chorus]
Now it's your time
(It's your right)
You can shine
(It's alright)
If you do
I'ma do, too
When I move my body just like this
I don't know why but I feel like freedom (Freedom)
I hear a song that takes me back
And I let go with so much freedom (Freedom)
Free to live (How I wanna live)
I'm gon' get (What I'm gonna get)
'Cause it's my freedom (Freedom)
[Verse 2]
The reason we get down is to get back up
If someone's around, go on, let them look
You can't stand still, this ain't no drill
More than cheap thrills (Feel like money, money, money)
[Pre-Chorus]
Now it's your time
(It's your right)
You can shine
(It's alright)
If you do
I'ma do, too
[Interlude]
'Cause when I look up to the stars (Stars)
I know exactly who we are (Ooh)
'Cause then, I see you shine
You shinin'
You shinin', oh!
Free to be!
(Everybody come on) (Freedom!)
(Everybody come 'round)
(Everybody come on)
Come on now
(Everybody)
I'm stuck to the dance floor
With the, with the whole tape
With the, with the, with the whole tape
(Let me see you wobble)
I'm stuck to the dance floor
With the, with the whole tape
With the, with the, with the whole tape
(Let me see you shake)
Give you just what you ask for
Givin' you the whole shake
I'ma give you the whole shake
(Let me see you wobble)
I'm stuck to the dance floor
With the, with the whole tape
With the, with the, with the whole tape
(Can you make it break?)
[Pre-Chorus]
I say, yeah (Yeah)
Oh, yeah (Oh, yeah)
(Let me see you wobble)
'Cause, you do
I'ma do, too
[Chorus]
When I move my body just like this
I don't know why but I feel like freedom (Freedom)
I hear a song that takes me back
And I let go with so much freedom (Freedom)
Free to live (How I wanna live)
I'm gon' get (What I'm gonna get)
'Cause it's my freedom (Freedom)
About
“We wrote ‘FREEDOM’ on the Fourth of July. We started with the title first. Once we named the song, it naturally unfolded after that.
The lyrics of the song came to me as I envisioned that freedom meant in a universal sense."
Source: Vevo Footnotes ‘Jon Batiste – The making of 'Freedom’'
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Jon Baptiste:
If you think about movies back in the day, you wouldn’t show a Black man with a white woman, or you wouldn’t show a Black relationship, or you wouldn’t show a woman in a certain role. That is our sexuality and how people are represented. That’s what people like James Brown, or when we saw Elvis with the twist in the hips, did. They were unlocking something in people that they were trying to hold in. These people became beacons of freedom, and you look at the way they move and the way that they express who they are onstage. That becomes the way that you want to be in life.
The song’s music video was awarded with the Best Music Video at the 2022 GRAMMYs:
- 1.WE ARE
- 3.CRY
- 4.I NEED YOU
- 6.BOY HOOD
- 7.MOVEMENT 11'
- 8.ADULTHOOD
- 9.MAVIS
- 10.FREEDOM
- 11.SHOW ME THE WAY
- 12.SING
- 13.UNTIL
