Introducing Ben Mitchell - an Australian musician from NSW who is writing songs for freedom!
Mitchell has performed in Australia, and around the world at various venues and festivals - he's even played minor roles in world famous Australian soap drama - Neighbours.
Ben has an amazing summertime vibe about him that doesn't go away even when he's singing about serious stuff like bodily autonomy and sovereignty!
Check him out here - https://www.ben-mitchell.com/
Here's a few with lyrics to get you hooked! Thanks Ben for putting your craft where it matters!
Lost in Lockdown by Ben Mitchell
Mothers are crying out, simply to be aloud
To stand up for their children, to question the world we're building
Fathers are giving up, they’ve had more than enough
Pretending it’s okay to take a man’s work away
It seems my old home town
Is lost in lockdown
Old man walking the street, old man can hardly breathe
Shuffling with a cane, that face mask just gets in his way
He said I cannot afford to pay the police force
But if I was a younger man I’d put 'em in their place, my friend
It seems my old home town
Is lost in lockdown
We get up every morning searching for a sign
Some kind of redemption, a single ray of light
Days turn into weeks, a week feels like a year
How can we believe our way out of here?
What have we all become—a land once free and young?
Why are we so afraid to live our own lives our own way?
My New Normal Is Love by Ben Mitchell
I’m standing here for our right to breathe
And a future I would like our kids to see
No face masks, lockdowns or quarantine
No more fear on the Tel-lie-vision screen
Look the children in their eyes
Then go and bring truth to the lies
CHORUS
This is my new normal
Speaking up for all who
Believe in freedom
And old-school breathing
I’m singing out for our liberty
It’s a fancy word for simply being free
We are born with goodness in our heart
No need to take a cold shot in the dark
Barefoot walking on the earth
Feel the mud and taste the dirt
CHORUS
MIDDLE
Watching everyone making a choice
Finding their own strength and their own voice
History will tell how with this love we grew
Into
One big family
Marching through the streets to victory
By my side a million more with me
We are not alone and never were
Now we have come together to be heard
Holding hands strangers are friends
Today all of this madness ends
CHORUS
This is my new normal…love * REPEAT
ps. Ben's also front manning an initiative for 'Freedom Musicians' in Australia - come and check it out and sign up! Let's get those gigs back on track again out of the dark and into the light! https://freethenationmusic.com/
This is absolutely awesome thank you very much!