Youssou N’Dour - Chimes of Freedom lyrics

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 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 hanged suspended
'Cause we listened one last time
And we watched with one last look
Spellbound and swallowed till
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
And we gazed upon the
Chimes of freedom flashing