LYRICS: I Want to Be Free

Album:

Jailhouse Rock

Lyrics / Music:

Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller, 1957

Catalog number:

EPA 4114

Recording date:

May 3, 1957

Release date:

October 30, 1957

Observation:

- Part of the soundtrack for the film "Jailhouse Rock" (1957)

- Re-released on "A Date With Elvis" (1959)

- Has variations, all heard in the film

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LYRICS

There's no joy in my heart, only sorrow

And I'm sad as a man can be

I sit alone in the darkness of my lonely room

And this room is a prison to me

I look at window, and what to I see?

I see a bird way up in the tree

I want to be free, free, Free

I want to be free like the bird in the tree

What good are my eyes, if they can't see you?

And my arms, if they can't hold you so tight?

I have two lips that are yearning, but they're no good to me

'Cause I know I can't kiss you tonight

I look at window, and what to I see?

I see a bird way up in the tree

I want to be free, free, Free

I want to be free like the bird in the tree

I want to be free

Like the bird in the tree