# What is this song?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song/188711
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 15, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song/188711 "2003-07-15T18:51:07Z")
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### Author:  [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song/188711/1 "2003-07-15T18:51:07Z")
I’m pretty sure it’s an old classic rock tune but I can’t for the life of me remember the verse or the name of it. It goes something like this…
_I wanna be high, so high… I wanna be free to know the things I do are right. I wanna be free. Just me. Whoa…_
Any ideas??
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song/188711/2 "2003-07-15T18:57:22Z")
From Balance
[http://surf.de.uu.net/heartland/balance.html](http://surf.de.uu.net/heartland/balance.html)
Never heard of it before, but it sounds to me like it’s new, not old classic r&r.
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### Author:  [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song/188711/3 "2003-07-15T19:03:41Z")
Ahhh…yes. They did a remake of it. It’s Lionel Ritchie’s “easy”.
Thanks!!
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song/188711/4 "2003-07-15T20:15:01Z")
[Play it yourself!](http://www.iol.ie/~murphypj/soulrnb/easy.txt)
Ritchie wrote it, but it’s a Commodores song from the 1977 album _Commodores_
;j