[id:$00FF6F4A] [ar:bob dylan] [ti:chimes of freedom] [by:] [hash:45aee48fb0367fac18b18cf7d9fd087c] [al:] [sign:] [qq:] [total:431130] [offset:0] [00:04.92]Far between sundown's finish [00:09.23]an' midnight's broken toll [00:13.26]We ducked inside the doorway [00:16.17]thunder crashing [00:20.97]As majestic bells of bolts [00:24.93]struck shadows in the sounds [00:29.16]Seeming to be the chimes [00:31.64]of freedom flashing [00:37.12]Flashing for the warriors [00:40.92]whose strength is not to fight [00:45.30]Flashing for the refugees [00:48.62]on the unarmed road of flight [00:52.38]And for each an' [00:54.07]every underdog soldier [00:57.78]in the night [00:59.76]And we gazed upon the chimes [01:02.84]of freedom flashing [01:09.73]In the city's melted furnace [01:13.72]unexpectedly we watched [01:17.98]With faces hidden [01:20.11]while the walls were tightening [01:26.74]As the echo of the wedding bells [01:31.02]before the blowin' rain [01:34.91]Dissolved into the bells [01:37.96]of the lightning [01:43.01]Tolling for the rebel [01:46.84]tolling for the rake [01:51.04]Tolling for the luckless [01:54.25]the abandoned and forsaked [01:59.13]Tolling for the outcast [02:02.62]burnin' constantly at stake [02:06.30]And we gazed upon the chimes [02:09.62]of freedom flashing [02:16.18]Through the mad mystic hammering [02:20.43]of the wild ripping hail [02:24.40]The sky cracked its poems [02:26.90]in naked wonder [02:31.85]That the clinging of the church [02:34.18]bells blew far into the breeze [02:39.68]Leaving only bells of lightning [02:42.78]and its thunder [02:48.65]Striking for the gentle [02:51.92]striking for the kind [02:55.95]Striking for the guardians [02:59.06]and protectors of the mind [03:03.43]And the poet and the painter [03:06.89]far behind his rightful time [03:11.20]And we gazed upon the chimes [03:14.34]of freedom flashing [03:24.16]in the wild cathedral [03:26.24]evening the rain unraveled tales [03:31.84]For the disrobed faceless [03:33.95]forms of no position [03:39.95]Tolling for the tongues [03:43.67]with no place to bring their thoughts [03:47.22]All down in taken-for-granted situations [03:55.88]Tolling for the deaf and blind [03:59.74]tolling for the mute [04:03.04]For the mistreated [04:04.53]mateless mother [04:06.69]and mistitled prostitute [04:10.93]For the misdemeanor outlaw [04:14.53]chased an' cheated by pursuit [04:18.40]An' we gazed upon the chimes [04:21.88]of freedom flashing [04:35.84]Even though a cloud's white curtain [04:39.72]in a far-off corner flashed [04:43.03]An' the hypnotic splattered mist [04:46.12]was slowly lifting [04:51.16]Electric light still struck like arrows [04:55.62]fired but for the ones [04:59.02]Condemned to drift or else [05:01.93]be kept from drifting [05:07.23]Tolling for the searching ones [05:10.72]on their speechless, seeking trail [05:14.49]For the lonesome-hearted lovers [05:18.32]with too personal a tale [05:22.47]An' for each unharmful, gentle soul [05:26.71]misplaced inside a jail [05:30.44]An' we gazed upon the chimes [05:33.45]of freedom flashing [05:59.80]Starry-eyed an' laughing [06:03.12]as I recall when we were caught [06:07.52]Trapped by no track of hours [06:10.13]for they hanged suspended [06:14.86]As we listened one last time [06:18.89]an' we watched with one last look [06:23.08]Spellbound an' swallowed [06:26.02]til the tolling ended [06:31.11]Tolling for the aching [06:34.69]whose wounds cannot be nursed [06:38.37]For the countless confused, accused [06:41.87]misused, strung-out ones an' worse [06:46.26]An' for every hung-up person [06:49.81]in the whole wide universe [06:54.04]An' we gazed upon the chimes [06:57.28]of freedom flashing