Toast to Freedom (Long Version) - Kris Kristofferson

Yea, ladies and gentlemen This goes out to you You are now about to witness Something quite specticular (That ain't even a word) Or should I say spectacular? (Oh that's better) So I want everybody to put your glasses up (Put em up in the air) And we about to make a toast to love yeah Never thought I will be the one To ever have love to come my way Now that it's here I will treat it like sunshine in a day It's so real Gotta fill up my cup and celebrate Let's toast to love, hey Let's toast to love, hey I was tryin to find that one for me But my life was wrapped up in the streets Then you pulled me in with your honesty yea And you planted your seed, my baby uh Never thought that love could be so kind (be so kind) Then you stole my heart and you changed my mind You and I, let's take a flight I got so much I wanna say So let me say it this way, my baby yea Never thought I will be the one To ever have love to come my way Now that it's here I will treat it like sunshine in a day It's so real Gotta fill up my cup and celebrate Let's toast to love, hey Let's toast to love, hey Never want this feeling to subside 'Cause your beauty opens up my eyes And it change everything from wrong to right I'm flying high as a kite, my baby, yeah, yeah The state of mind that I'm in, got me gone with the wind 'Cause this thing that we share we morethan friends When I say it's not a game Expectation's easy to me You put my mind at ease oh oh Never thought I will be the one To ever have love to come my way Now that it's here I will treat it like sunshine in a day It's so real Gotta fill up my cup and celebrate Let's toast to love, hey Let's toast to love, hey I can't imagine life without you You make everything right In my life, and it's so real to me baby yea yea Never thought I will be the one To ever have love to come my way Now that it's here I will treat it like sunshine in a day It's so real I will fill up my cup and celebrate Let's toast to love, baby Let's toast to love, hey Never thought I will be the one To ever have love come my way Now that it's here I will treat it like sunshine in the day Gotta fill up my cup and celebrate Let's toast to love, hmm hey Let's toast to love

Breaking the lines and bury what's coming This common-sense you're ignoring 'Cause you're next up to fall out with not dealing With all the doubt, you still are not facing Forget the world's reaction to this chemical attraction That I've always known, but never could savor Push play, repeat, then start the cycle that's been feeding on me Every day I keep digging a deeper grave In God we mistrusted The truth left all of us disgusted A toast to the ghosts in our homes Still alive Gave all they had for a flag But the dream has died But the dream has died I take it, you've said enough No, thank you for warning us So obvious, my mistake You think that I won't give up I've gone and I've had enough So what I've left miles away In God we mistrusted The truth left all of us disgusted A toast to the ghosts in our homes Still alive Gave all they had for a flag But the dream has died But the dream has died But the dream has died In God we mistrusted In God we mistrusted

Love, devotion Love, devotion Feeling, emotion Feeling, emotion Don't be afraid to be weak Don't be too proud to be strong Just look into your heart, my friend That will be the return to yourself The return to innocence The return to innocence And if you want, then start to laugh If you must, then start to cry Be yourself, don't hide Just believe in destiny Don't care what people say Just follow your own way Don't give up and use the chance To return to innocence That's not the beginning, it's the end That's the return to yourself The return to innocence It's the return to innocence

I was alone, I was so tired Down to my bones And you know everything Every little moment had lost its ring I found my way to you, you came right out the blue And that was all you had to do and I knew I couldn't get you out of my mind, you know I reached you just in time I found my way to you and it's true Rise up everyday, it felt like You were a million miles away And I lie down every night I needed you beside me to make it right I found my way to you, you came right out the blue And that was all you had to do and I knew I couldn't get you out of my mind, you know I reached you just in time I found my way to you and it's true I found my way to you (Found my way to you) I found my way to you (Found my way to you) I found my way to you (Found my way to you) And it's true I found my way to you (Found my way to you) I found my way to you (Found my way to you) I found my way to you (Found my way to you) And it's true

Maybe she was smilin' in the mirror Maybe I was too, 'cause I was stoned Singin' every sad song on the juke-box one more time Honey, they were hittin' close to home And I said - Maybe this'll make you think I'm crazy Honey, don't feel lonesome if you do But if you wanna make a young man happy one more time I'd sure like to spend the night with you Chorus: And she said - Stranger Shut out the light and lead me Somewhere - shut out the shadows, too And while we lay there, makin' believe you love me Stranger, could I believe in you Maybe you got all you got together Maybe you keep rollin' like a stone Maybe some old lonesome song'll take you by surprise And leave you just a little more alone Chorus: Singing - Stranger Shut out the light and lead me Somewhere - shut out the shadows, too And while we lay there, makin' believe you love me Stranger, could I believe in you Chorus: Keep Singing - Stranger Shut out the light and lead me Somewhere - shut out the shadows, too And while we lay there, makin' believe you love me Stranger, could I believe in you

See the ruin on the hill, where the smoke is hangin' still Like an echo of an age-long forgotten There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stones And a roof that fell before the beams were rotten See, Saul Darby loved his wife and he labored all his life To provide her with material possessions And he built for her a home of the finest wood and stone And the building soon became his sole obsession Oh, it took 300 days for the timbers to be raised And the silhouette was seen for miles around And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky But it only took one night to bring it down When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground Though they shared a common bed, there was precious little said In the moments that he set aside for sleepin' 'Cause his busy dreams were filled with the rooms he'd yet to build And he never heard young Helen Darby weepin' Then one night he heard a sound as he laid his pencil down And he traced it to her door and turned the handle And the pale light of the moon through the windows of the room Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled Oh, it took 300 days for the timbers to be raised And the silhouette was seen for miles around And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky But it only took one night to bring it down When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground Thank you

It's sad to see we may never be the way we were before We don't believe in the magic of the music anymore And everything's older now and colder and grey Oh, darlin' I believe there's got to be a better way. It seems to me we've forgotten how to let our feelings show We seem to be so much farther from the dreams we used to know And too many more, my friend, are dying today Oh darlin' I believe there's got to be a better way. Listen to the fallen angels learning how to spread their wings. How will they make it all alone? Look into the children's laughter Tell me what tomorrow brings for those so far away from home. And I can say I'm not sorry for the things we tried to be But I'm afraid what we're heading toward is up to you and me 'Cause we got a choice; the future is ours you see We got a chance to change today Oh, darlin' don't you believe there's got to be a better way 'Cause we got a choice; the furture is ours you see. We got a chance to change it today. Oh I believe together there can be a better way Oh if we believe together we can build a better way.

Darkness had us covered when we split from Minnesota in the morning In the rain Black as I was feeling and the street was slick and shiny as a snake Each of us was a-humming to a half forgotten echo Hangin' over in the brain Tappin' time and thinking of the time we never had the time to take Losing to the rising cost of living high and loving hard And leavin' every yesterday behind Learning every bridge you cross, is burning down before you're off and Running Like the devil just in time Chorus: Breakin' any ties before they bind you Taking any comfort you can find Running like you're running out of time Take it all-take it easy-till it's over-understanding When you're headin' for the border lord You're bound to cross the line Good lookin' women every time you stumble Waitin' there to catch you when you fall Gettin' to you bad enough to let em Keep you backin' up till just before your back's against the wall Chorus: Breakin' any ties before they bind you Takin' any comfort you can find Runnin' like you're runnin' out of time Take it all-take it easy-till it's over-understanding When you're headin' for the border lord You're bound to cross the line