Bob Dylan – Chimes Of Freedom (Guitar Intro)

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

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We ducked inside the doorway as thunder went crashing

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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 flashing

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Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight

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Flashing for the refugees on 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 flashing

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Through 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 blowing 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 flashing

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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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And the poet and the painter far behind his rightful time

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And 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 and 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, chained and cheated by pursuit

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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

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And 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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And for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail

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And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

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Starry-eyed and 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 and we watched with one last look

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Spellbound and swallowed 'til the tolling ended

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Tolling for the aching, whose wounds cannot be nursed

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

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

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And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing