Broken Tomorrow
Music and Lyrics by Jeffrey Paul Bobrick
(track 4 from "When You Are Free")

We are born into a world
Not of our own making
We must pay for the mistakes
Of yours’ and past generations
We were just little babies
Lives ripe for the taking
With a cloud of smog surrounding us
Politicians’ hearts are breaking

And we’re living for a broken tomorrow
Gasping for air today
There’s no time that we can borrow
Who will come to save the day?

We were born
With so much to be fixed
All my friends, for their ends,
They fix just for a fad
And we were born
With insurmountable odds against our survival
Guns and war, I’m not sure
But I think we’ve all gone mad

And we’re living for a broken tomorrow
Gasping for air today
There’s no time that we can borrow
Who will come to save the day?
And we’re living for a broken tomorrow
Gasping for air today
There’s no time that we can borrow
Who will come to save the day?

But what about my generation
Why do we feel this way
What about my generation
Can’t we make everything okay
What about the destitution that we see everywhere we turn
As we are stripped of hope ‘cause there is nothing more to learn
Nothing more to learn…

And that’s why we’re living
And we’re gasping
And we’re dying (Ah)
Who will come to save the day…?

And we’re living for a broken tomorrow
Gasping for air today
There’s no time that we can borrow
Who will come to save the day?
And we’re living for a broken tomorrow
Gasping for air today
There’s no time that we can borrow
Who will come to save the day?
Who will come to save the day…?
 

Crown of Thorns
Music and Lyrics by Jeffrey Paul Bobrick
(track 1 from "When You Are Free")

Don’t apologize,
I’ve heard enough already
You are tired
I’m not the only who’s wronged
Ease your burden
I see the weight that’s on your back
You’d carry it with you through eternity
And never know that it was with you
And never know that I am with you

We’re forever falling over our own creations,
We’re forever seeing faulty manifestations

Why must we all wear
Why must we all wear a crown of thorns?

Don’t apologize
I’ve seen enough already
Many people
Suffer in torment, think they’ve wronged
What you carry
Does it provide to you your need?
How can you think that you are blamable
When who you are is good enough
When who you are is just enough

We’re forever falling over our own creations
We’re forever seeing faulty manifestations

Why must we all wear
Why must we all wear
A crown of thorns?

Don’t apologize.
 

Nobody's Normal
Music and Lyrics by Jeffrey Paul Bobrick
(tracks 2 and 6 -- reprise -- from "When You Are Free")

I gotta conform
Can’t stand out too much
Gotta be a round peg
In a round hole.
I gotta be smooth
Not speak my heart
Gotta keep my damn foot
Outta my damn mouth

I gotta be smart
See what other people do
Gotta watch them to know what’s right
I gotta shut up
And shove all my feelings down
Or maybe I’ve got to give it up

‘Cause Nobody’s Normal, nobody’s wrong
It has taken my whole life to see
That Nobody’s Normal, nobody’s wrong
So I’ll just be who I want to be

I gotta construct
My life just like his
Gotta do it one way
Or not at all
I gotta accept
Reality
Gotta keep my damn hands
To my damn self

Gotta be good
Keep my pen inside the lines
Hold my tongue
Follow the rules
I gotta play safe
Think what others think of me
Or maybe I’ve got to let it go

‘Cause Nobody’s Normal, nobody’s wrong
It has taken my whole life to see
That Nobody’s Normal, nobody’s wrong
So I’ll just be who I want to be
 

Still Love You
Music and Lyrics by Jeffrey Paul Bobrick
(track 3 from "When You Are Free")

You want so much from me
You want all
Why won’t you let me be
Don’t call
You want to suffocate me
With love
You say we’re meant to be
Hand in glove

It’s not that I don’t care for you
It’s not that I don’t adore you
It’s not that I don’t want to give you
All that I can (oh)
It’s not that I don’t love you
I’m always thinking of you
But I still want to be a free man

I love myself
I love you too
Can I love me
And still love you?

You come around
And it’s a shame
You wake me up
And I’m to blame
You will not give me any peace
You won’t allow for my release

I need to breathe some air
But do you really care
You take my sweat, my blood, my life in your rage (oh)
There’s much I want to give you
But I can’t always be with you
I’m not a beast to fit your cage

I love myself
I love you too
Can I love me
And still love you?

I will make you dinner
I will sing you love songs
I will hold you when you are in need
I will listen to you
I will see right through you
Will our love be obliterated by your ruthless greed?

There’s much I want to give you
But I can’t always be with you
I’m not a beast to fit your cage

I love myself
I love you too
Can I love me
And still love you?
(oh ooh still love you)

 

When You Are Free
Music and Lyrics by Jeffrey Paul Bobrick
(track 5 from "When You Are Free")

Love thy neighbor as thyself
Has to be the most violated commandment
And I know how you need love
Bound and silenced for so long
While you did what others needed from you
Now you’ve left what once was yours

When the pressures lift around you
And you’re all alone
You can finally find a way
When some mercy comes upon you
And your pain has flown
I hope you’ll hear me when I say

When you are free, when you are free
You can leave your past
When you are free
When you are free, when you are free
Your love for you must last
When you are free

When you’re working for so long
Shutting off the calling of your heart’s desires
It can pull you from yourself
When you push and strain so hard
That your limbs are numb and the pain is empty
It can leave you feeling lost

Change is coming, that is certain
Though is has been long
You know there must be more
Scatter all your self before you
And you’ll see you’re strong
There is so much to explore

When you are free, when you are free
You can leave your past
When you are free
When you are free, when you are free
Your love for you must last
When you are free

Falter farther forward
Feeling for emotion
Finding sound foundations, leaving agony
Banished but unbroken,
Bending, seeking balance
Hold your soul tight, give it light, and let it see
Let it see

When you are free, when you are free
You can leave your past
When you are free
When you are free, when you are free
Your love for you must last
When you are free