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Lyrics for Chimes of Freedom by Bob Dylan:
| | | Artist: | Bob Dylan |
| | Album: | Another Side of Bob Dylan | | Track: | Chimes of Freedom | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 189 | | | | Lyrics: | by Bob Dylan
Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll
We ducked
inside the doorway, thunder crashing
As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the
sounds
Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing
Flashing for the warriors whose
strength is not to fight
Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight
An' for
each an' ev'ry underdog soldier in the night
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom
flashing.
In the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched
With faces hidden
while the walls were tightening
As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin'
rain
Dissolved into the bells of the lightning
Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the
rake
Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an' forsaked
Tolling for the outcast, burnin'
constantly at stake
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Through the
mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
The sky cracked its poems in naked
wonder
That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
Leaving only bells
of lightning and its thunder
Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
Striking for
the guardians and protectors of the mind
An' the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful
time
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Through the wild cathedral
evening the rain unraveled tales
For the disrobed faceless forms of no position
Tolling
for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
All down in taken-for-granted
situations
Tolling for the deaf an' blind, tolling for the mute
Tolling for the
mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an'
cheated by pursuit
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Even though a
cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An' the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly
lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift
or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking
trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An' for each unharmful,
gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom
flashing.
Starry-eyed an' laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no
track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an' we watched with one
last look
Spellbound an' swallowed 'til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones
whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an'
worse
An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An' we gazed upon the chimes
of freedom flashing | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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