Lyrics to
I Wanna Be Free

This version of I Wanna Be Free was released by Uriah Heep in 1971.

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As I wake up every day with no new songs to play
Feeling like I ought to pack my bag and run
My imagination flies to some other sunny skies
Where I felt so good and everything was done
And my time was my own, and my heart felt so free. Come On!

I don’t mind a little rain, but it doesn’t seem the same
When the clouds shut out your beauty from my eyes
There’s a storm inside my head and I know it doesn’t lead
To a clearer a day when nobody will cry
I can’t stand here alone, and I need to be free… Free!

So bring fire and bring steel for you know the way I feel
Bring a silver horse to carry me away
I’m no stranger, I’m a friend and my pain will never end,
‘Til the world will let us live our lives as one
And our time is our own, and our hearts can be free.

I wanna be free, I wanna be free, I wanna be free, I wanna be free
I wanna be free, I wanna be free, I wanna be free, I wanna be free

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About Lyrics and I Wanna Be Free by Uriah Heep

When you decide to study the lyrics to I Wanna Be Free, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Uriah Heep. Some of the lyrics to I Wanna Be Free have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Uriah Heep and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to I Wanna Be Free if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Wanna Be Free" means the words set to the music of I Wanna Be Free, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Uriah Heep. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Wanna Be Free and the lyrics to I Wanna Be Free are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Uriah Heep who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Wanna Be Free, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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