Freed for More, Allison Beyer

About the Artist: ​ALLISON BEYER is a singer songwriter, deeply proud and passionate about being a Michigander and okay with living in Indiana now. She is grateful and humbled to share this space with such talented and dedicated people. Her music is based in the Christian spiritual tradition.

Recorded socially distanced in a gymnasium with masks all around and one mic...such a great time but a little rough on the audio. Inspired by the SURJ prompts to bring in some instruments and sounds that my fore-mamas and papas might have played and the prompt, "What would it mean to be white in a world free from white supremacy?"

Free For More

I could let go of the guilt, stop being defensive
Share a meal with my uncles, without apprehension
Sit down with neighbors to watch the sunset
without all the tension of unasked questions
about who's on which side
The Whole Justice Department would be let go on furlough
History teachers would be our national heroes
Streets would be named for the people who made them
And the land that sustains us we'd reverence as sacred
We'd all be on the same side, same fight
We'd all be walking the same line, same time
We'd all be giving our all
Freed from fear
Freed for each other
Freed for more
I could stop keeping tabs on my husband as he goes around town
Because there'd be no more risk of driving while brown
I'd take heart, know my children'd be judged by their character
There'd be parades, no more raids
Playgrounds 'stead of cages
We could hold hands in a church or pass notes in a school room
Let go of the terror of any chance of a shooting
There'd be no more cop killings, there'd be no more looting
We'd have what we need
We'd invest in our healing
We'd all be on the same side, same fight
We'd all be walking the same line, same time
We'd all be giving our all
Freed from fear
Freed for each other
Freed for more
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Credits
Songs for SURJ
Cameron Cortens, CSC: Accordion
Julian Druffner, CSC: Mandolin
Devon Sproule co-write (chorus!)