2006-08-13 20:50:53 · 11 answers · asked by peter b 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
If you can have freedom, you sure as heck can lose it too.
So no. Freedom means that you also have freedom to lose.
2006-08-13 20:54:09 · answer #1 · answered by k² 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the materialistic, success-driven world of competitive 'keeping-up-with-the-Jonses', you become a slave to the social image of being on top. This was the world many of the voices from the 60's generation were born into. They found the only way to escape the pressures of being forced into a mold they did not desire was to drop out and tune out. Of course many found that on the opposite end of the spectrum, things weren't so wonderful, either. Being a bum in a land of plenty gives you as near total freedom as humans can get, zero bills, zero social obligations... but of course you're getting your meals from dumpsters and sleeping in cardboard boxes. Kris Kristopherson has seen both ends of the spectrum and bounced back up from the bottom to tell the tale, bringing with him the wisdom that you've got to be yourself, but somewhere along the way you've got to strike a balance you can live with. The poor dumb bastard is a communist, but he's taken his licks and earned the right to his own opinions. Plus he's a great songwriter, and an adequate actor.
2006-08-13 21:12:44 · answer #2 · answered by rumplesnitz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely! No worries, no cares, free from having to protect any possessions, pay bills, fix or maintain anything of any value what so ever. Now, is that a possibility? I think not . . . only in death, but, you will never experience true freedom, as you will never know you are dead.
2006-08-13 20:58:56 · answer #3 · answered by zambranoray 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is alot of truth in that lyric, if you single then your free, she just went through a break up, nothing else to loose.
2006-08-13 20:57:12 · answer #4 · answered by da_Boo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
freedom, in this context, is extreme loneliness and longing - a discovery that when one is no longer with a partner, perhaps in the pursuit of freedom, then discovers that they miss that person.
2006-08-13 20:59:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
When you have nothing to lose, and you want nothing, and you are the riches person in the world.
When you're at the very bottom, there is no way but up.
2006-08-13 20:53:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes all to gain but nothing to give. all comes down to the will to fight and the energy to see it through
2006-08-14 11:58:29 · answer #7 · answered by Lanabelle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, just juvenilia from a semi-literate source.
2006-08-13 20:53:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
poor ol` Janis certainly has her freedom then eh?
2006-08-13 20:53:04 · answer #9 · answered by ......... ........... 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ask bobby magee, but i saw him at the doctors..hes got them oll kozmic blues again...
2006-08-13 21:15:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋