Byrds - Chimes Of Freedom Lyrics
Written by bob dylanFar between sundowns finish and 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 flightAnd for each and every underdog soldier in the nightWe gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashingEven though a clouds white curtain in a far off corner flashedAnd the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly liftingElectric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the onesCondemned to drift or else be kept from driftingStarry eyed and laughing, as I recall when we were caughtTrapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspendedAnd we listened one last time, and we watched with one last lookSpellbound and swallowed till the tolling endedTolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursedFor the countless confused, accused, misused, srung-out ones and worseAnd for every hung-up person in the whole wide universeWe gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
