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And midnights broken toll

We ducked inside

The doorway [as] thunder [went] crashing

As majestic bells of bolts

Struck shadows in the sounds

Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing

Flashing for the warriors

whose strength is not to fight

flashing for the refugees

of the unarmed road of flight

and for each and every underdog

soldier in the night

and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

[The Byrds skipped the next few verses]

There are cities melted furnace

unexpectedly we watched

with faces hidden as the walls were tightening

As the echo of the wedding bells

before the blowing rain

dissolved into the bells of the lightning

Tolling for the rebel

tolling for the rake

tolling for the luckless

they are bound and damned forsaked

tolling for the outcasts

burning constantly at stake

and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

Through the mad mystic hammering

and the wild ripping hail

the sky cracked its farms in ***** wonder

As the clanging of the church bells

blew far into the breeze

leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder

Striking for the gentle

striking for the kind

striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind

and the poet and painter

far behind his rightful time

and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

In the wild cathedral evening

the rain unravelled tales

for a disrobed faceless farms of no position

Tolling for the tongues

with no place to bring their thoughts

all down and taken for granted situations

Tolling for the deaf and blind

tolling for the mute

for a mistreated maidless mother, a mistitled prostitute

for the misdemeanor outlaw

chained and cheated by pursuit

and we gaze upon the chimes of freedom flashing

[The Byrds pick it up here]

Even though the cloud's white curtain

in a far off corner [flowered]

and the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting

Electric light still struck like arrows

fired but [further ones]

condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting

Tolling for the searching ones

on their speechless seeking trail

for the lonesome hearted lovers with too personal a tale

and for each unharmful gentle soul

misplaced inside a jail

and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

[Byrds/McGuinn:

dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee

dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee-duh]

Starry eyes and laughing

as I recall when we were caught

[trapped]

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