Keep on rockin' in the free world

What exactly does it mean to keep on rockin' in the free world?


If you don't know, what does it mean to you?


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By the way Neil Young is putting Buffalo Springfield back together after 43 years and is apparently only doing a few select shows down in California with them.

This is the guy who just won 'Artist of the Year' in Canada earlier this week...

 

I'm gonna keep on raging in the free world =P

 

It means to keep on living freely and doing what you want without compromise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdiCJUysIT0"]YouTube - Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World

 

it means conviction doesn't fade with age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AQQ4gkWChE&feature=related"]YouTube - Neil Young - Glastonbury 2009 - Rockin In The Free World part 2

 

The "free" part is an illusion.

 

i always thought that song was about crack..i still do..

 

rock is dead and the world is not free

i always thought he was being ironic

 

At the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, TN.

• Buffalo Springfield feat Richie Furay, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Rick Rosas, Joe Vitale

 

I translate it to living my life as true as possible in our emerging police state. Keep on rockin', keep on tokin', and maybe keep on trucking, trucking on down the line, maybe trucking across the border where the sun always shines

 

i had a friend who theorized that every time a song used the word "rock" it was actually a substitute for the word "fuck."

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf5nVk5MU70&playnext=1&list=PL27277519090382C1"]YouTube - Neil Young - The Restless Consumer (Video)

 

Your friend was rocked in the head.

 

For me - I think it means 'Keep on going' - the degree of which and topic/theme, personal to the individual
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It's about miners on the moon

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o106BuPR4B8&feature=bf_next&list=PL27277519090382C1&index=55"]YouTube - Neil Young - Ohio (Live at Farm Aid 25)

 

where is this free world of which we speak?
the dominance of aggressiveness is always tyranny, regardless of ideological, economic, religious, or any other excuse for it. and while it may or may not always be a fiate accompli (and i, unlike many, rather strongly suspect there will come a time when it no longer will be), but it is not ever a divine right.

(i might also add, if there were any such thing as a free country, and i were actually living in it, no one would ever hear me complain. not out of any sort of patriotism, but simply because i would not be living close enough to anyone else, for them to hear me at all.)

 

As has been pointed out, we don't live in a free world. The world was bought and sold a long time ago. But we can live freely in it.

The title of the song seems to be ironic given the lyrics. The lyrics point out that the world is in fact not free and that we don't even have a choice or a say in the matter. The baby in the dumpster ("one more kid that'll never go to school, never get to fall in love, never get to be cool") seems to symbolize the public, while the junkie mother who dumps it off symbolizes our politicians and greedy fiends that run the world and throw us to the wolves.

 

i think he's saying, keep on enjoying yourself cause that's all we have... love your friends, love your family and keep on keepin on bro ... the rest is a big facade