I was once such a lamb like you   So white and clean   Then the world got ahold of me   Now I'm a nightmare's dream   On my own like a shot in the dark   Racing down the road   On the loose like a hungry shark   Through the oceans cold    If I tried to fly   Would I get very high    Take a look here up on the stage   Tell me what do you see   A lonely man with a heart full of rage   Can you hear me scream   What do I want   What do I need   I can hear you say   My four best friends and this guitar   Is how I'll make my way    Now that you see me fly   C'mon reach for the sky    Don't try to hold me   Now I'm running free   Your preachers stone me   Now I'm running free   With the night   Because you need the dark to save the light   Don't try to hold me   Now I'm running free    Now we ride    All at once came a sound from above   But I don't have the time to make it   Every night in the crux of my soul   I just don't have the guts to fake it   I was born just to ramble about   No one is going to keep me down   Don't say you love me to keep me here   'Cause I will never settle down   I'm free    Every heart that I get on the road   I go and put them on a shelf   The road is hard that I'm traveling on   I got no room for someone else   Live every day just for makin' my way   I'm what you'd call a renegade   And like a bird I'm trapped   You've got my soul so open up this cage   I'm free    Don't you try to hold me   Now I'm running free