Key: C major
Verse 1
a playwright and theatre director
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called Safdar Hashmi
was murdered on the streets
near Delhi.
His street theatre is said to have stressed on the right to
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speak out freely against oppression.
He's a long lost story
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and a half -forgotten name
buy off their votes
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A pen can never be as strong as a sword
So the playwright gets written
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off the open roads of Delhi
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But the dirty side of the facts still remains.
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and free to be slain on the streets.
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Oh, freedom, freedom, what does it mean?
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I know what it meant,
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I know what it meant to hush me,
Shakespeare you see,
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Could be dispensed with
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quite easily on the roads
Still a woman named Shabana
stood up and cried
And I know that on that fate
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ful night she was alone
and politics
running like before
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And hired hoodlums beat
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G
Oh, freedom, freedom, what does it mean?
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I know what it meant, yes,
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I know what it meant to hush me
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Saffar Hashmi
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freed at midnight
betrayed poor Christ
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Go on repeating the lies of history
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feel proud of the land where we belong,
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is always free to die on the streets
you can also deceive
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not believe in me
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Oh, freedom, what does it mean
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I know what it meant, yes,
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I'm old, but it meant to hush me
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