Bob Dylan - Chimes Of Freedom Lyrics
Far between sundowns finish an midnights broken tollWe ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashingAs majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the soundsSeeming to be the chimes of freedom flashingFlashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fightFlashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flightAn for each an evry underdog soldier in the nightAn we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.In the citys melted furnace, unexpectedly we watchedWith faces hidden while the walls were tighteningAs the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin rainDissolved into the bells of the lightningTolling for the rebel, tolling for the rakeTolling for the luckless, the abandoned an forsakedTolling for the outcast, burnin constantly at stakeAn we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hailThe sky cracked its poems in ***** wonderThat the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breezeLeaving only bells of lightning and its thunderStriking for the gentle, striking for the kindStriking for the guardians and protectors of the mindAn the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful timeAn we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled talesFor the disrobed faceless forms of no positionTolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughtsAll down in taken-for-granted situationsTolling for the deaf an blind, tolling for the muteTolling for the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostituteFor the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an cheated by pursuitAn we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.Even though a clouds white curtain in a far-off corner flashedAn the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly liftingElectric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the onesCondemned to drift or else be kept from driftingTolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trailFor the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a taleAn for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jailAn we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.Starry-eyed an laughing as I recall when we were caughtTrapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspendedAs we listened one last time an we watched with one last lookSpellbound an swallowed til the tolling endedTolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursedFor the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an worseAn for every hung-up person in the whole wide universeAn we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
