Chimes Of Freedom

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Far between sundown's finish, and midnight's broken toll 
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We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashin' 
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As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds 
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Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashin' 
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Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight 
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Flashing for the refugees in the unarmed road of flight 
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And for each and every underdog soldier in the night 
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And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin' 

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In the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched 
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With faces hidden as the walls were tightening 
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As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin' rain 
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Dissolved into the bells of the lighting 
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Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake 
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Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned and forsaked 
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Tolling for the outcast, burnin' constantly at stake 
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And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin' 



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Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail 
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The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder 
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That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze 
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Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder 
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Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind 
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Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind 
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An' the unpawned painter behind his rightful time 
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An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. 



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In the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales 
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For the disrobed faceless forms of no position 
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Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts 
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All down in taken-for-granted situations 
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Tolling for the deaf an' blind, tolling for the mute 
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For the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute 
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For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an' cheated by pursuit 
    
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An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. 



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Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flashed 
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An' the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting 
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Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones 
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Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting 
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Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail 
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For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale 
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An' for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail 
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An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. 



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Starry-eyed an' laughing as I recall when we were caught 
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Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended 
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As we listened one last time an' we watched with one last look 
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Spellbound an' swallowed 'til the tolling ended 
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Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed 
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For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse 
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An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe 
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An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.