Chimes Of Freedom Lyrics - Another Side Of Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

Far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken toll 

We ducked inside a 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 on the unarmed road of flight 

And for each and every underdog soldier in the night 

And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing 

Through the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched 

With faces hidden as the walls were tightening 

As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin' rain 

Dissolved into the bells of the lightning 

Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake 

Tolling for the luckless, they abandoned and forsaked 

Tolling for the outcast, burning constantly at stake 

And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing 

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Through the mad, mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail 

The sky cracked its poems in naked 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 the painter far behind his rightful time 

And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin' 

In the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales 

For the disrobed faceless forms of no position 

Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts 

All down in taken-for-granted situations 

Tolling for the deaf and blind, tolling for the mute 

For the mistreated, mate-less mother, the mis-titled prostitute 

For the misdemeanor outlaw, chained and cheated by pursuit 

And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing 

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Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flared 

And the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting 

Electric light still struck like arrows fired but for the ones 

Condemned to drift or else be kept from driftin' 

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 

Starry-eyed and laughing as I recall when we were caught 

Trapped by no track of ours for they hang suspended 

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

Spellbound and swallowed 'til the tolling ended 

Tolling for the aching whose wounds cannot be nursed 

For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones and worse 

And for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe 

And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'