Chimes of Freedom

Chimes of Freedom - Mallory Willow/Various Artists

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

We ducked inside the doorway thunder 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

We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

Through the city's melted furnace unexpectedly we watched

With faces hidden while the walls were tightening

As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowing rain

Dissolved into the bells of the lightning

Tolling for the rebel tolling for the rake

Tolling for the luckless the abandoned and forsaked

Tolling for the outcast burning constantly at stake

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

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 hanged suspended

As we listened one last time and we watched with one last look

Spellbound and swallowed til the tolling ended

Tolling for the aching ones 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

We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing