colours on the street red white and blue  people shufflin' their feet people sleepin' in their shoes  but there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead  there's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead  don't feel like satan but i'm to them  so i try to forget it anyway i can    keep on rockin' in the free world    i see a girl in the night with a baby in her hand  under an old street light near a garbage can  now she puts the kid away and she's gone to get a hit  she hates her life and what she's done to it  that's one more kid that will never go to school  never get to fall in love never get to be cool      we got a thousand points of light for the homeless man  we got a kinder gentler machine gun hand  we got department stores and toilet  paper got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer  got a man of the people says keep hope alive  got fuel to burn got roads to drive