Devo - Freedom Of Choice Lyrics






A victim of collision on the open sea
Nobody ever said that life was free
Sank, swam, go down with the ship
But use your freedom of choice

I'll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Your freedom of choice

In ancient Rome
There was a poem
About a dog
Who found two bones
He picked at one
He licked the other
He went in circles
He dropped dead

Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom of choice!
Is what you want!

Then if you got it you don't want it
Seems to be the rule of thumb
Don't be tricked by what you see
You got two ways to go

I'll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Freedom of choice

Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom of choice!

In ancient Rome
There was a poem
About a dog
Who found two bones
He picked at one
He licked the other
He went in circles
He dropped dead

Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
[repeat]





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  1. R.... A....

    The Ultimate and quintessential DEVO song.

  2. M.... T....

    I like A Perfect Circle's version too

  3. T.... S....

    Forget cgì
    The stage is theirs
    By invention

  4. L.... S....

    Somebody's watching you, too, and I guarantee they're not half as fucking sexy.

  5. s.... ....

    Bones Brigade, INDY trucks , Kryptonics , SIMS, Rector pads , and of course Devo , freedom of choice , loved the 80s.

  6. G.... B....

    This is The Theme Song
    For The Skateboarders !

  7. G.... B....

    Victim of Collision on The Open Sea !

  8. A.... S....

    1:43 🤔

  9. A.... L....

    This is one of those videos that you were hoping Mtv would play while you stayed up all night at your slumber party aged 10!

  10. L.... M....

    The Cars were hugely influenced by DEVO Ang kraftwork

  11. R.... H....

    These. Guys are awesome extreme talent great song beautiful world also thank you for the sounds

  12. I.... e....

    Great song...great band ...this song is over 30 yrs old

  13. M.... M....

    First time hearing this. Not disappointed.

  14. C.... S....

    This would make me pull on some roller skates.

  15. G.... B....

    Who is watching This Great Brilliant Video
    November 11 28 2019 ?
    Happy Thanksgiving

  16. E.... M....

    the robot costumes look a bit like kryton from red dwarf : )

  17. c.... a....

    should i choose the chocolate donut or the chocolate donut ? decisions , decisions . so stressful

  18. b.... f....

    LOL!!!!! GREAT!

  19. r.... r....

    whaw i' m tripping !!

  20. A.... N....

    FREEDOM FROM CHOICE IS WHAT YOU GOT

  21. c.... ....

    This video is a brilliant trip

  22. S.... S....

    Ahead (and torso) of their time....

  23. M.... W....

    This might be the most patriotic American music video ever.

  24. E.... T....

    Sci-fi kitsch on the surface, savage sarcasm beneath, devo's Dadaist disco-punk spectacle felt like the missing link between Kraftwerk, the Sex Pistols, and mad magazine.

    E.... T....

    Exactly!

  25. B.... B....

    OMG!! YES FUCK YES!!!!! XOXOXO

  26. R.... ....

    Shamefully I hadn't heard of this song before I heard APC's cover of it on Emotive. I actually like Devo's version better

  27. R.... F....

    DE-evolution is today

  28. M.... T....

    Is anyone going to Dress
    Like DEVO this year for Halloween
    2019 ?

    M.... T....

    No, I'm going to dress as the brainwashed zombies at the end of the video.

  29. M.... T....

    Happy Halloween 2019

  30. J.... S....

    All that smoke at the beginning... I thought I was about to see Matthew Mcconaughey and his Lincoln.

  31. G.... P....

    A Perfect Circle covered this track.

  32. t.... o....

    Freedoms of choice is what you got
    Freedom from choice, is what you want
    Jeffry Epstein lacked freedom of choice into his death.

  33. I.... I....

    This very well could be the best song and video ever...

  34. G.... S....

    The many different forms they take look different, but fundamentally they give us the same illusion of "freedom." This video was warning us about the invading, mundane masses of NPC's far in advance! DEVO really was a message from the past, for the future. Take heed!

  35. C.... B....

    Ahhh DEVO! I see General Boy looking at Alan Myers & Bob 2 saying YOU’RE LATE!! ;) R I P all three

  36. A.... L....

    DEVO help me bust down this tyranny of BS

  37. R.... ....

    Great song. The fact that Fu Manchu did a cover of this song makes me love Fu even more. One of my favorite 80's band covered by one of my favorite 90's band!

  38. b.... ....

    Saw this video in 1980 before whip it hit the radio!! Got the 8 Track the next Day!!🎈 i was in the 6th grade! Hell ya! Great memories! Great BAND!!

  39. A.... V....

    I love how the Freedom From Choice uniform looks like something Tony Orlando would have worn.

  40. L.... S....

    I've always loves their "philosophy" of DEVOlution.

  41. A.... S....

    2:37 I've seen this entrance on the movie Day of the Dead.

  42. C.... C....

    Great artists, fun times before crazy pc killed the video 👹

    C.... C....

    Yes but TV sucks....take exemple from MTV and what become it...a smoking pile of trash :D.

  43. I.... I....

    Simply Amazing.

  44. m.... ....

    I wish the boys from Jackass would re-vamp this video. It would be awesome!

  45. B.... N....

    Fuck......I love this.☑🐶

  46. A.... P....

    Loved it then , love it now

    A.... P....

    I was in to a lot of musical styles back then (highschool). Got a lot of shit from my headbanging friends for liking DEVO. Too bad. They missed out.

  47. G.... D....

    I love the end ,they board in the club devo shop and alan (rip) becomes one of them.

  48. D.... G....

    Perfect theme song for millenials who want socialism.

    D.... G....

    I'm 46...What do you mean? That fascism is better?

    D.... G....

    Devo were perhaps the most leftwing band in new wave. What the hell are you on about?

    D.... G....

    @Luca Savino go around the political spectrum and you see socialism and fascism meet. They're the same thing.

    D.... G....

    Better than being in a Trumpist Cult.

  49. 5.... ....

    Freedom of choice is what you got, freedom from choice is what you want.

  50. S.... D....

    Health and Safety would have an epileptic libtard fit if someone tried to make this video in 2019. LOL

  51. T.... C....

    I remember first seeing this video in a club outside Camp Hansen Okinawa getting drunk on cheap Japanese liquor.

  52. S.... ....

    As punk as f***!
    If you don’t get it lemme break it down for you:

    It’s a message from the future. These guys are mutants or aliens (doesn’t matter). Freedom is fun and dangerous. Skaters have fun and take a certain amount of physical risk. They get it. They’re the protagonists here. In the end even they don the uniforms and march in lock step. Rome’s answer to the difficulty of freedom was tyranny. Moral of the story: I don’t care if freedom is tough! Use your freedom of choice ANYWAY!

    S.... ....

    I took the skateboarder metaphor thing as that theyre riding the wave in uniform because they looked the same and one followed the other exactly the same. Another metaphor in the video I found interesting is when we see the man deciding on a gun or grenade (destruction) and the woman on panties or slippers (comfort) They give us a choice that may look different but with similar effect.

    S.... ....

    @5318oo8 I get ya. For some reason I saw the "choice" issues you're talking about as "fake choice." Like "Hey you got a choice! Democrat or Republican! ABC or NBC! (put your 80s hat on) Banal or trite! Ain't choice great!?" But maybe that's just my cynical self rearing it's ugly head. Loved the 80s! Hate the present.

    S.... ....

    @SuperDachshund even antifa recites cnns rhetoric without even knowing. how would they when they 'rebel' against the system when theyre reciting what the globalists are trying to sell. the left goes against fact and chases conspiracy theories and categorizes people to silence them even if it means they have to generalize and go against their standards and lie. meanwhile the right are just trying to keep the country united and to uphold the constitution and what have you

    S.... ....

    @5318oo8 I'm no fan of ANTIFA. It's tough to figure out if DEVO was talking about real choice (tongue in cheek--I mean, come on. Is a grenade really an option? What about switchblade, or brass knuckles? What about an ICBM for over the top effect? It's a fun part of the video nevertheless.) or poking fun at fake choice we only think is real. But there's a real 2nd Amendment thing going on with the guy's choice and a "titillating" thing going on with the woman's choice.

    S.... ....

    @SuperDachshund grenade and guns dont have a name on em. I dont know if it was challenging the idea of second ammendment when the man was met with the option of a grenade and gun. I think its a symbol of men go to war and do what theyre supposed to do and women live in luxury as supposed to. There are these standards were given in the land of the free. Freedom of choice. I guess we all perceive devos music video a little differently haha 😀 like for instance someone told me they thought song Living in america - James brown was about the downfall of america.

  53. L.... J....

    If anything else makes sense to you, see your local health professional.
    Just f in sayin ...

  54. P.... R....

    Le Paradise!! ♥

    P.... R....

    the song has hidden messages

  55. S.... B....

    You know, it's either Russia, or take the North Koreans! It's your choice.

    S.... B....

    yea, definitely not the global*cough cough*ists :D

  56. R.... B....

    "Because we question popular mythologies about progress and the value structure it’s all based on as being absolutely rancid, then of course we’re accused of having sour grapes. It’s ridiculous; all you have to do is look at Jerry Falwell and Ronald McDonald and Ronald Reagan and start putting it all together. What we see, then, are born-again Christians dressed in double-knit pilgrim suits with particle guns that look like blunderbusses gettin’ in station wagons and searching out people who aren’t Christian enough to eat Thanksgiving turkey."
    Jerry Casale to William S Burroughs, Trouser Press, February 1982

  57. T.... T....

    Great vid - these guys were way ahead of their time!

  58. J.... G....

    Bring back the 80’s

  59. R.... G....

    Wicked song.

  60. b.... ....

    I like DEVO, but man, this is freaky......

  61. w.... h....

    When I was 15 I was all drunk and all "fuck authority cause.... PUNK" Then I went to my local, privately owned music store (R.I.P.) and picked up Devo's "oh no it's Devo" album and went "these guys look like fucking nerds". And the older bald guy who owned the store went "You need to buy that, you need that. I'm giving you 50% off" and it was originally 11 bucks. And I remember popping it in to my CD player and just feeling so hysterical at the synthesizers and the electric drums and such, but the lyrics made me find my brain.

  62. a.... w....

    freedom of choy. choy sum bok choy etc...

  63. U.... 0....

    376 people are "victim(s) of collision on the open sea..."

  64. D.... C....

    1979 = freedom of choice ............2019 = freedom from choice

  65. M.... T....

    Congratulations 2 Million Views Thank You you All Great DEVO Fans Out There in TV Land
    Now please Watch this following Videos in YouTube
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    6 Don't Shoot I'm a Man posted by Mylittledaughters
    7 Beautiful World posted by Jtegland
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    Thanks for the Support

  66. S.... F....

    Welcome to SKLAVENMORAL, DIE HERDE, and at the end of the video the then modern "Mao uniform of the day." But at least we'll have doughnuts...chocolate doughnuts...Mmmm...

    S.... F....

    Interesting. See above.

  67. F.... ....

    What the heck is up with all the spammers in this comment section

  68. G.... B....

    I Love the Episode of Classic STAR TREK year 2 THE OMEGA GLORY when The Indian Chief says to Captain Kirk FREEDOM !

  69. G.... B....

    Happy 4 the of July Independence Day Happy Birthday America USA USA USA FREEDOM OF CHOICE ! 2019 !

  70. B.... G....

    Can some1 confirm this poem is actually from rome?

  71. H.... ....

    I remember when they filmed this at Marina . Marina opened more less after the initial skate park boom . I used to skate there almost nightly from when it opened till it’s demise. Living right off Pacific in South Santa Monica , we were in heaven when this place opened. Some of the heaviest skating in history went down here. Watching the older Dogtown crew rip here was routine. We thought those days would never end

  72. W.... ....

    Kryten on some serious drugs

  73. J.... C....

    Love this tune

  74. E.... C....

    LOOK LISTEN and LEARN youngsters, THIS is from the 70’s

  75. g.... w....

    Back when kids skated off their frustrations

  76. H.... V....

    So far ahead of their time. It speaks to the brilliance of Devo that they were able to get this on MTV!

  77. S.... ....

    This song is truly the national marching song of today,in AMERIKKKKKKA.

    S.... ....

    Nope.Assbackwards.Demoshits hate freedom of choice. Want to be socialists, can't stop wrecking everything their touch.Look at every big city.Shitholes run by liberal dumbasses!!!!

  78. T.... G....

    Mark looks most disturbing in the close up shots.

  79. L.... C....

    As artificial intelligence gets better human intelligence fades away

  80. U.... 0....

    367 people are brain damaged..

    U.... 0....

    Because they drink The Kool Aid

  81. n.... B....

    Coke or Pepsi. Ford or Chevy. Republican or Democrat. ALL LIES ALL LIES Wake up you LAZY WORTHLESS FUCKS

  82. P.... ....

    I always think of this song when I buy toothpaste

    P.... ....

    ...or razor blades.

  83. B.... B....

    "Freedom of choice is what you got, Freedom from choice is what you want..."

  84. V.... V....

    Freedom from choice is what you got...

  85. S.... F....

    : ♡༺✿༻♡·♡༺✿༻♡ ´´CARMARADEN´ : ♡༺✿༻♡·♡༺✿༻♡ ´´

  86. C.... ....

    : ♡༺✿༻♡·♡༺✿༻♡ ´´CARMARADEN´ : ♡༺✿༻♡·♡༺✿༻♡ ´´

  87. E.... ....

    Thank-you, DEVO. Now I know about Aesop's Fables, eh?

  88. C.... C....

    Devo gave us some much needed insanity back in the 80's...we're through being cool...we're through being cool! eliminate the ninnies and the twits! Lol

  89. M.... T....

    DEVO The Next Future Legend's Please Vote them in Thank You

    M.... T....

    out with the Jew Bernie and the Dems!

  90. D.... N....

    Safety first

  91. S.... S....

    Saw this on Mtv in 1983 The part at 1;30 made me want to become a skater . I bought a Santa Cruz Red Dot, with Bones wheels, and I still have it today.

  92. B.... ....

    They really didn't have many hits, but I still love them. I loved their weirdness because I'm weird myself

  93. D.... ....

    This is the song and video which made me a DEVO fan.

  94. G.... ....

    I remember watching some late night music show maybe it was mtv and devo came on and I went from practicing fast keyboard and guitar arpegios to this. Haha! I thought these guys were creative genius’s.everyone else was trying to be more and more complicated with rock and pop and bam! Devo shows up.It proves its about the beat .makes me want to do a devo cover band haha!

  95. M.... T....

    DEVO look like They Have appear on The Classic SCi Fi TV Shows The Outer Limits The Twilight Zone Lost in Space Star Trek and One Step Beyond

  96. A.... ....

    Wierd as F costumes but Devo's 1980's music far exceeds any dubtronica music being produced today.

  97. M.... S....

    Prophets!

  98. M.... P....

    SALBA & D.P..... BADLANDS MEETS THE O.C. AT THE MARINA DOG BOWL!!!