TOBIN JAMES MUELLER
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Can You Hear It Now?
(from the musical "Robin Hood"; sung by Dianah
as she decides to run away and join Robin's band)


Can you hear it now?
It is all around you…
There is freedom in the air.

Shot out from a bow,
Guarded hope has taken wing,
Flaming from a hero fair.

Drowned out on city streets, hidden in lies,
Chains from my past tug; but here freedom shines!

From where does it come?
Is it deep inside my heart?
Where does freedom get its start?

How can it survive
When oppression haunts the land?
How does hope retain its spark?

Here in the greenwood, where hate has no binds,
Shielded by Robin Hood, here freedom shines!

Or am I running away from the life I should live?
From the safety of all that I know?
Can I give all I am? Can I find what I need
If I go? If I stay? I must change. I must find dignity!
Live by a more human creed!
I must be free!

Can you hear it now?
It is pouring from my soul!
It is life, unchained and stark!

Like an arrow cold,
Shot out from an ashen bow,
I have come to find my mark!

Here in the greenwood, where hate has no binds,
Shielded by Robin Hood, here freedom shines!


1999 © Tobin James Mueller
"Songs" published by ArtsForge Press.
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