A Free Man

They came for him at twilight in the rain
He felt the betrayal but hardly felt the pain
Politics is  dirty game.

They put him in the prison for the insane
But he dreams he left the city and the rain
Learned to love the desert plain
And he felt as if he's died and was born again

When he wakes in the morning
His mind needs no warning
That the earth is there as far as the eye can see
And he's never been so free

They tortured him and cursed him
But he wouldn't bend
And he escaped them in the end
Into that distance further than the eye can see
Where at last he was really free