Far between sundown's
finish
an d midnight's broken toll
We ducked inside the doorway,
thunder crashing
As majestic bells of bolts
struck shadows in the sound
Seeming to be the chimes
of freedom flashing
Flashing for the warriors
Whose strength is not to fight
Flashing for the refugees
On their unarmed road of flight
And for each and every underdog
Soldier in the night
Yet we gazed upon the chimes
of freedom flashing
In the city's melted fur
nace
Unexpectedly we watched
With faces hidden
while the wall s were
tighten ing
As the echo of the wand
ing bells
Before the blowing rain
Dissolved into the wild
bells of lightnin'
Yeah, tollin' for the rabble
Yeah, tollin' for the rake
And tollin' for the luckless
The abandoned and
forsaken
Yeah, tollin' for the outcast
Burnin' constantly at stake
And we gazed upon the chimes
of freedom flashing
And then through a cloud's white curtain
In a far -off corner flashed
The hypnotic splattered mist
was slowly lifted
While electric lights still struck
like arrows fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be
kept from drifting
We're ill told and
for the searching ones
on this speechless secret trail
For the lonesome heart
and lovers
with too personal a tale
And for each unharmful
gentle soul
mis placed inside a jail
Yet we gazed upon the chimes
of freedom flashing
Well, starry -eyed and laughing,
I recall when we
were caught
Trapped by no track of ours,
for they hang suspended
As we listened one last time,
then we watched with one last look
Spellbound and swallowed
until the tolling ended
Yeah, tolling for the aching ones
whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused,
accused and misused,
strung out ones at worst
And for every hung up person
in the whole wide universe
Yeah, we gazed upon the chimes
of freedom flash ing
Whoa -oh -oh,
whoa -oh -oh, whoa
And for every hung up person
in this whole wide universe
Then we gazed upon the charms
of freedom flashing