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CHIMES OF FREEDOM...Dylan...WAR in the 60's/70's...What Were They Thinking? Ahead of His Time!
from Another Side Of Bob Dylan
http://www.metrolyrics.com/chimes-of-freedom-lyrics-bob-dylan.html
ther Side Of Bob Dylan
Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll
We ducked inside the doorways, 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, the abandoned and forsaken
Tolling for the outcast burnin' constantly at stake
And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
That the clinging 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 flashing
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, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
For the misdemeanor outlaw chained and cheated by pursuit
And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
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 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
Starry-eyed and laughing, as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hang suspended
As we listened one last time and we watched with one last look
Spellbound and swallowed till 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 flashing
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(67,193 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Under the 1% since that TERRIBLE FAILURE of our US GOVT. to KEEP US SAFE!
They FAILED...NOT US! Our TAX DOLLARS for DECADES gave TRILLIONS to the MIC to KEEP US SAFE!
THEY FAILED and "WE, THE PEOPLE were PENALIZED FOR IT!
Sorry...Full Caps...for those of us who SEE how WE are PAYING for their BLUNDERS!
I'm "Mad as Hell...and Sorry ...I'm not Taking their SPIN ...ANYMORE!
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)Thanks for the thread, KoKo.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)We continue to do these WARS and Arms Shipments across the Globe in the Name of Democracy because WAR GOODS are what America EXPORTS these days!
Along with Prisoner Culture...if one SPEAKS UP!
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)either stay on the road of empire until we crumble as a nation or seriously work to evolve our global conciousness beginning with removing the mote from our own national eye.
Only then can the U.S. in partnership with the rest of the world work toward evolving human societies toward a more sustainable and peaceful future.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)health care for tens of millions of Americans, the rich are taxed at half what they were then, they're gonna cut granny's food stamps, and no one but rich kids can afford to go to college.
It's just so wrong.
Thanks, KoKo.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)and it gets kind of depressing....but, then..maybe things just had to CATCH UP to US...and not the Other Way Round?
Maybe we can't see the Progress because the parts are just now starting to come together to make a Whole?
What does the War Machine and Wall Street have Left when they Starve the People and try to Shut them Out.
History says...the REBELLION WILL COME. But it seems the LEADERS these days have NO SENSE OF HISTORY...and it's left out of their Algorithm Predictions....