08. Instant Clarity (Open My Eyes part II.) - BEHIND THE WALL OF FREEDOM

Sitting…in a smoky bar
Right now… is celebration time
Today…it has been six months
Since I´ve…come here for a new life

Immigration office helped me
With many things to my new start
Living in two rooms appartment
And I´m working at a food store

Chorus 1:
In the land of occasions
Hardworking man can reach his aims
And fortune favours the best
Hold to my destinations
Step by step I am on my way
To get to the top at last

Drinking…another cold beer
Oh John…how I wish you were here
With me…to live in liberty
Help me…with my new destiny

I feel something wrong around me
Day by day I realize
Nothing is what it seems to be
Pink (coloured) glasses falling from my eyes

Chorus 2:
In the land of delusion
No matter of ability
Corruption and money rule
Believing in illusions
Now I am starting to see
Something here is rotten too

...

So bittersweet is a taste
Of freedom in this state
For money that godlike
People break human rights

Mrs Justice is a blind
Paper money on her eyes
She judges right for those
Whose alibies are gold

Now it really seems to me
They have the same enemy
Like we have in my country
Just in a different disguise

Enemy is dictating
How to live, what to think
What to buy, what to eat
In their submitted lives

In contract to my land
They have options to change
But they don´t really care (overrulled by laziness)* backing vocals
And they will never dare (upon them fear reigns)*
No!
They will never dare
No!
White flags everywhere
No!

No!
Anymore!
I´m not watching
Now I see!!!

Chorus 3 (the same melody like in song "Open my Eyes"):
I´ve opened my eyes…clear a haze of illusions
Nothing is really what it seems
I´ve opened my eyes…grab a mask of delusion
That was told in our stories
I´ve opened my eyes…see a reign of corruption
Ruling with power of money
I´ve opened my eyes…see through all illusions
In a state of instant clarity

Sitting…in the empty bar
I know…I will never come
Back home…to see my family
Tell them…for all troubles…I´m so sorry

Hugo I haven't commented much on this series, but I read all of them and it's really fascinating! The gradual development of this concept has had me on pins and needles .. but this is strange, I just now thought about the concept title: Behind the Wall of Freedom. A "wall" is not something we would normally associate with "freedom" ... so is that a clue about how it will end? But please don't answer that if it will give away any surprises

I have a friend who left eastern Europe (defected) around 1980 and came to the USA a year later. It's remarkably interesting to listen to the stories he can tell. Everybody should have a friend like that

Thank you MoonRide42 for your comment. Sorry, I was busy last days. "Behind the wall of freedom" is just short title. It should be "Behind the wall where freedom lies", but it seems to me too long The Wall means a border between two worlds like eastern europe versus western europe but it could be also between communism versus capitalism or middle east versus western world.

You´re exactly right that everybody should have a friend from different world to realize that free things he takes for granted in his world aren´t free everywhere.