A Place To Run Free

© 1988 Stephen Savitzky. CC-by-nc-sa.

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If there are ever computer programs that can fall in love, there will be plenty of people who will hate them--and their human lovers.

	Am	Dm	Am	Em7
	The night's cold shadow deepens on the	city's ancient walls and	ignorance is rising like the	sea,

	Am	Dm
They're	hunting down the last free souls before the	dark age falls

	Am	Em	F C G
And	there's noplace left on Earth for them to	be.

	Am	Dm
	A child is running down the street, with	fear she looks behind;

	Am	G	C
Her	jeering classmates follow, in a	mob without a	mind;

	F	G	F	C
But she's	found the door that	takes her to a	place they'll never	see,

	F	C	G	C G
She's gone	looking for a	place to run	free.

C G C F(D\up3) C\addG F C

To run free--like the moonlight on the sea; no place on Earth to be;

F C G C G

She's looking for a place to run free.

A program slips from node to node while demons stalk the net;

The network snoops are tracing through, but they've not caught it yet;

But it's found a place to transfer where no gateway used to be

And gone looking for a place to run free.

To run free--like the starlight on the sea; no place on Earth to be;

It's looking for a place to run free.

A hacker's peering at his screen, electrons tell their tale:

A child's face, a program's trace, a starship's silver sail.

And when the mob breaks down his door there's noone there to see;

He's gone looking for a place to run free.

To run free--like the sunlight on the sea; no place on Earth to be;

He's looking for a place to run free.

	C	F	C
	Beyond the Night's dark shadow,	above the old Earth's	walls,

	F	C	G
Space	stretches like a	sunlit shoreless	sea;

	C	F	C
And the	whirling planets beckon, and the	distant starlight	calls;

	F	C	G
And it's	there we'll build our	own place to run	free.

To run free--like the wind above the sea; it's the place for you and me;

It's there we'll build our place to run free--

F G C

It's there we'll build our place to run free.