Freedom Isn't Free

(John D. Anderson, James C. Hicks, Sr.) A stirring anthem that is already bringing fans to their feet when performed live.

“This is the one we’ve played the most live. I wrote that with Jim Hicks, an old friend. We’ve been friends, Jim and I, since the first grade. We were raised together, our fathers were both in the service and in the same hunting club when we grew up.

That song is a statement about how we were raised, and how that way of life seems to be becoming rare these days. Lord forbid that way of life becomes rare in the United States, because we won’t be a free country any more. It’s just about standing up for what you believe in. There’s a line in there that says, ‘where I come from it’s an unwritten law/you don’t back a man up against the wall/and everybody answers to the call/when it’s time to fight.’

That **** ain’t happening. Sorry! And it worries me. It needed saying, probably needed saying 20 years ago.