Set Them
Free
Words
and Music by Randall Effner
Vocals: Randall, Dianna, and Sara Effner
Arrangement and Guitar: Adrian Morales
Recorded at Wimmercreek Studio,
Jefferson City, Missouri, and Heiga Studio, Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida
Final mix at Heiga Studio, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
A major news
story of 2005 that went largely unreported in the mainstream
media was the large movement of Chinese people walking away
from the Chinese Communist Party
(CCP). Led by
The Epoch Times Newspaper, which in the fall of 2004 had
published the hugely influential book,"Nine
Commentaries on the Communist Party," first hundreds,
then thousands, then hundreds of thousands of Chinese people
began publicly quitting this political organization that is
responsible for killing between 60 and 80 million of its own
people since it seized power in 1949. By the summer of 2005,
the number of people quitting the CCP and its affiliated
organizations stood at over three million (it is over 27
million at this writing.)
The song
"Set Them Free" was written to be performed at a large rally
supporting this movement at the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington DC in July of 2005. In March of 2006, "Set Them
Free" won an honorable mention award for "Lyric Writing" in
the
7th Annual Great American Song Contest.
I hear the chimes of freedom ring again
I heard them once before when they were blowin' in the wind
The Chinese people walk in chains, they're longing to be
free
It's time to tell the world the truth about the CCP
I'd like to paint a picture in
this song,
About what it's like in China if you practice
Falun Gong,
Or if you are a
Christian or you're for
democracy
They'll put you in a prison cell and throw away the key.
Chorus:
Set them
free! set them free! set them free! set them free!
Set them free! set them free! set them free! set them free!
The labor camps are like a
living hell
Where you're beaten, starved and brainwashed and there's
nowhere to appeal
There is no law or justice, there is just the CCP
Who hide their evil deeds behind a
cloak of secrecy.
The free
world should stand up for liberty
But now we sell out human rights to
buy a cheap TV,
We see slavery and
torture and we turn our head aside
I'd rather spend a little more than pay for genocide.
Repeat Chorus
The world
will not forget the Berlin Wall
And how the people danced with joy, just to see it fall
The Chinese leaders shake with fear remembering
that day
They know their time is almost up and soon they'll
have to pay.
The blood red dragon can no
longer fly
Nine swords have pierced its armor and it looks
about to die
Now millions of its members have
renounced it publicly
The world will be a better place without the CCP.
Repeat Chorus
Raise Pitch One Step and Repeat Chorus One More Time
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