Another Side of Bob Dylan

Title: Chimes of Freedom
Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan (Track #4)
Duration: 07:10
Label: Sony Music Entertainment

Far between sundown's finish an' midnite's broken toll We ducked into the doorway as thunder went crashin' As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds Seemin' to be the chimes of freedom flashin'. Flashin' for the warriors whose strength is not to fight Flashin' for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight An' for each an' every underdog soldier in the night An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'. Thru the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched With faces hidden as the walls were tightenin' As the echo of the weddin' bells before the blowin' rain Disolved into the bells of the lightnin' Tollin' for the rebel, tollin for the rake Tollin' for the luckless, the abandoned an' forsaked Tollin' for the outcast burnin' constantly at stake An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'. Thru the mad mystic hammerin' of the wild rippin' hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder As the clingin' of the church bells blew far into the breeze Leavin' only bells of lightnin' an' its thunder Strikin' for the gentle, strikin' for the kind Strikin' for the guardians an' protectors of the mind An' the poet an' the painter far behind his rightful time An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'. In the wild cathedral evenin', the rain unraveled tales For the disrobed faceless forms of no position Tollin' for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts All down in taken for granted situations Tollin' for the deaf an' blind, tollin' for the mute For the mistreated mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute For the misdemeanor outlaw chained an' cheated by pursuit An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'. Even tho a cloud's white curtain in a far off corner flared An' the hypnotic spattered mist slowly liftin' Electric light still struck like arrows fired but for the ones Condemned to drift or else be kept from driftin' Tollin' for the searchin' ones on their speechless seekin' trail For the lonesome hearted lovers with too personal a tale An for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'. Starry eyed an' laughin' as i recall when we were caught Trapped by no track of hours for they hang suspended As we listened one last time an' we watched with one last look Spellbound an' swallowed till the tollin' ended Tollin' for the achin' ones whose wounds cannot be nursed For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung out ones an' worse An for every hung up person in the whole wide universe An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'.