Day 3:
Trying To Be Free
Good day, Travellers. Before we go any further, are you sure you need that baggage?
Have some fun today! Open to page 11 of your passport and share your creative work in our fb group 🙂
Song Story
Lyrics
Kneel down while I hold back your hair
There’s no need for shame honey, we’ve all be there
I know nothing I say will make it seem fair that
Pleasure and pain are so tangled together
Please know you deserve to be loved
And the shelter he’s giving you – it isn’t enough
When then nights have gone cold and you lie in the silence
With passion and pain held so tightly together
We are shaking off shackles
Trying to be free
Without walking away from everything
So spill out all of your rage
Line after line, page after page
Knowing nothing you write could ever erase
How salvation and pain are so bound up together
We are shaking off shackles
Trying to be free
Without walking away from everything
I keep scrolling through the photos on my phone
Cos I love who I am when I am not alone
There’s an ache that you left me – a sliver of home
Why do friendship and pain always wind up together?
We are shaking off shackles
Trying to be free
Without walking away from everything
Conversation
Is there baggage from your upbringing that weighs you down Some you’ve left behind? ​
Photo Album
Track by Track
Who are those people talking at the start of the song? How many different countries are involved here – all revealed!
Wear headphones for the best experience.
https://youtu.be/ecU_FkQ8S-o
Points of Interest
Extra versions, music videos, behind the scenes and more – every stop has its hidden gems.
Music Video
All New Vocal Version
A totally new version of Trying To Be Free, heard here first!Â
Release Party Concert
An international extravaganza of songs, stories and poetry from the night before the TTBF single release in March.
https://youtu.be/MT7rzz4lqig
Alright Alright Version
Did you know that I wasn’t the first to release this song? My friends in Alright Alright, who appear on my recording, beat me to it on their excellent album, Crucible. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzlXJde0-s
Now that we’ve got the luggage sorted, get ready for a weird and wild destination tomorrow …
Your tour guide,
Von Bieker