Philip Lynott - Ode To Liberty Lyrics
The dream was not a visionOr some preminition like we were toldIt was no figment of the imaginationTo prove that we could be bought or soldThe doctor of the dimond runCould be revealed to the intellegentBut this is what I resentWho cares for the ignorent, the intellegentThe synics approch was meanWho cares for anything in this whole wide worldExcept meAnd this opinion must not confuse the issueMy appearence, my condition, or state of deliveryI am stating the obviousThis is a protestThere must me a collusionThis is no shakespearean speachThis is a statementMade by one who can not practice what he preachesThe statue of libertyHas engraved on its wallGive me your poor, give me your needyGive me them allWe need something like thisFor this world to coexistIt would be so easyTo act so pretensiousTo act as if it was hepocracyTo act condisendingWhen in fact its the world were mendingAnd thats why I cant relaxCause inside my coat its a pistol that I packWe must beware of a suprise neuclear attackWe must be ready to strike backIm not pretendingOur defense needs clearly mendingWe must leave those standingForget the third world is endingIs starving, is cryingIs desolate, is oh so lateI would dearly love to returnThrough a mirror in twenty yearsAnd learn what the future has in store for usAnd if I learned that we lostAnd there was no hopeFor those that fightI would turn to drinkAnd drink is drugsAnd drugs would help me sinkAnd like of boat, I floatI sail out to the skyTo the universe and backMaybe to give it another tryI dont know why, why jackJust to confirm our fatherJust to learn, just to heal us
