CHIMES OF FREEDOM (Bob Dylan/Bob Dylan) Lyrics


Well, far between sundown's finish and midnight's
broken toll

We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashin'

As majestic bells of boats struck shadows in the
sun;

Sayin', it may be the chimes of freedom flashin'



Flashin' for the warriors whose strength is not
to fight;

Flashin' for the refugees on their unarmed road
of flight.

And for each and every underdog soldier in the
night

We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'



Well, in the city's melted furnace unexpectedly
we watched

With faces hidden here while the walls were
tightenin'

As the echo of the wedding bells before the
blowing rain;

Dissolved into the wild bales of lightnin'



Yeah, tollin' for the rebel, yeah, tollin' for
the raked

Tollin' for the luckless, the abandoned and
forsaked.

Yeah, tollin' for the outcasts burnin' constantly
at stakes

And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'



Oh yeah! (instrumental solo)



And then through a cloud-like curtain in a far
off corner flashed

There's a hypnotic, splattered mist was slowly
liftin'

Well, electric light still struck like arrows

Fired but for the ones condemned to drift or else
be kept from driftin'



Well, tollin' for the searching ones on this
speechless, secret trail

For the lonesome haunted lovers with too personal
a tale.

And for each young heart for each channeled soul
misplaced inside a jail

Yeah, we gazed upon the chimes of freedom
flashin'



Well, starry eyed and laughin' I recall when we
were caught,

Trapped by an old track of vows for the hands
suspended

As we listened one last time, and we watched with
one last look

Spellbound and swallowed Has the tollin' ended?



Yeah, tollin' for the achin' ones whose wounds
cannot be nursed

For the countless, confused, accused, misused
strung out ones at worst.

And for every hung out person in the whole wide
universe

We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'



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