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Lyrics to Beyonce song "Freedom"

  Just for nothin' I'm putting a famous image from Raphael's painting School of Athens, right here.  But I am thinking as the headline here indicates of the song that has become the new anthem of the Kamala Harris campaign.  As readers will probably recognize, I'm fully behind somebody-who-is-not-Trump for President. Harris is now that candidate and she is guaranteed my vote. In that spirit, here are the lyrics to the anthem, Beyonce's "Freedom".  Freedom! Freedom! I can't move Freedom, cut me loose! Singin', freedom! Freedom! Where are you? Cause I need freedom too! ---------------------------------------------------------------------  It sounds like an evocation of the police-brutality cases and arguments that clustered in the Trump years, often involving the phrase "I can't breathe!" from a dying man, and the taunt that if you couldn't breathe you couldn't say that. Yet people about to die apparently can say that.  And peop...