{"id":7838,"date":"2013-01-09T06:53:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T06:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=7838"},"modified":"2013-01-09T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T07:56:13","slug":"my-latest-song-the-cost-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=7838","title":{"rendered":"My Latest Song&#8230;. &#8220;The Cost Of Freedom&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"My%20Latest%20Song....%20%22The%20Cost%20Of%20Freedom%22.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>It only took 27 years from the time I started it to finishing it this week! I&#8217;m pretty sure this is one of the ones I came up with while riding my bike the ten miles from Mesa College to my house when I lived in San Diego. The ** indicates the bit that has been floating around all these years. It didn&#8217;t have any specific meaning attached to it when I wrote it; I just liked the way it sounded. Last week, at band practice, one of my band-mates was talking about a song with freedom in the lyric. I started riffing on this song, and Chris, our drummer turned guitarist, started playing this way cool funk riff that fit PERFECTLY! I had never thought of putting a funk vibe to this thing! This is why I love working with other people. Forces you to go outside your own limited box.<\/p>\n<p>After band practice, I was driving home listening to some Conservative talk radio. When they are not talking about guns or horrible government,socialist Obama, or the 51% of the country that are freeloaders, they like to talk about &#8220;the gay&#8221;. As it happens, the story of the Boy Scout who was denied his Eagle badge because he is gay, even though he did everything required to earn it, was the topic of discussion. I happened to tune in when a fevered religious type caller was going on and on about the &#8220;homosexual agenda&#8221; and proclaiming that we gays are all abominations.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I normally don&#8217;t let this kind of thing bother me, as it doesn&#8217;t much matter what other people think about me and being gay. They fear what they don&#8217;t understand. But, since my creative juices were flowing, and his comments did strike a nerve, I came up with the rest of the song in retaliation to his negative rant on the drive home. I\u00a0 try to stay away from bashing or commenting on religious beliefs &#8211; I&#8217;m agnostic, and believe everyone has a right to believe whatever religion they chose &#8211; but this caller rubbed me the wrong way. And helped me finish my 27 year old song, &#8220;The Cost Of Freedom&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>? ** You gotta count the cost of freedom<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You gotta count the cost<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You gotta count the cost of freedom<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> What you learned and what you lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Was it not you, who told me<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You gotta pay if you want to be free<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> Was it not you, who said<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You never loved unless you bled **<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You gotta count the cost of freedom<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You gotta count the cost<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You gotta count the cost of freedom<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> What you learned and what you lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Was it not you, who told me<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You&#8217;ll be saved if you but believe<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> Was it not you, who said<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> Succumb or your soul is dead<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You gotta count the cost of freedom<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You gotta count the cost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Yes I confess I&#8217;m a sinner<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> Can&#8217;t change as it&#8217;s what must be<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> But I have love in my heart<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> And that&#8217;s the thing that will set me free<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You gotta count the cost of freedom<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You gotta count the cost<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You gotta count the cost of freedom<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> Who you love it&#8217;s worth the cost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Was it not you, who told me<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You gotta pay if you want to be free<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> Was it not you, who said<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You never loved unless you bled<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You gotta count the cost of freedom<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> You gotta count the cost ?<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>PS. Happy eighth blogaversary to me! Will post something on that tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"My%20Latest%20Song....%20%22The%20Cost%20Of%20Freedom%22.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>It only took 27 years from the time I started it to finishing it this week! I&#8217;m pretty sure this is one of the ones I came up with while riding my bike the ten miles from Mesa College to my house when I lived in San Diego. The ** indicates the bit that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,63,64,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7838"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7840,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions\/7840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}