A Repeat: "You Will Go Free" by Tonio K

I posted this one a while back, but I wanted to rerun it for the fun of it. Enjoy!

For those of you who don't know Tonio K, all I can really offer is the following. I was an assistant manager at a Christian bookstore in Louisville, KY when I discovered this interesting and slightly different artist. He recorded two albums (that I know of) on the What? record label (distributed by Word music) and then he disappeared as mysteriously as he had appeared. For more on Tonio K. visit this site--

Tonio K

. At any rate, I was listening to his "Romeo Unchained" album today, and one of the songs struck me that I'd like to share with you all. The song is entitled "You Will Go Free" and seems to address the issue of fallenness and salvation. I'll let you be the judge. Here ya go:

"You Will Go Free"
by Tonio K.

You've been a prisoner
Been a prisoner all your life
Held captive in an alien world
Where they hold your need for love to your throat like a knife
And they make you jump
Yeah, they make you do tricks
They take what started off such an innocent heart
And they break it and break it and break it
Until it almost can't be fixed

Well I don't know when
And I don't know how
I don't know how long it's gonna take
I don't know how hard it will be
But I know
You will go free

You can call it the devil
Call it the big lie
Call it a fallen world
Whatever it is, it ruins almost everything we try
It's the sins of the fathes
It's the choices we make
It's people screaming without making a sound
From prison cells in paradise
Where we're chained to our mistakes

And I don't know when
And I don't know how
I don't know how much it's gonna cost you
Probably everything
But I know
You will go free

You can't see your jailer
You can't see the bars
You can't turn your head around fast enough
But it's everywhere you are
It's all around you
And everywhere you walk this prison yard surrounds you

But in the midst of all this darkness
Yeah in the middle of this night
I see truth cut through the curtain like a laser
Like a pure and holy light
And I know I can't touch you now
And I don't want to speak too soon
But when we get sprung
From out of these cages, baby
God knows what we might do

But I don't know when
And I don't know how
I don't know if you'll be leaving alone
Or if you'll be leaving with me
But I know
You will go free

Copyright 1986 N.Y.M. ASCAP/Bibo Music ASCAP

Thanks for reading!