Well, far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken toll   We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashin'   As majestic bells of boats struck shadows in the sun   Sayin', it may be the chimes of freedom flashin'      Hey, flashin' for the warriors whose strength is not to fight   Flashin' for the refugees on their unarmed road of flight   And for each and every underdog, soldier in the night   We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'      Well, in the city's melted furnace unexpectedly, we watched   With faces hidden here while the walls were tightenin'   As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowing rain   Dissolved into the wild bales of lightnin'      Yeah, tollin' for the rebel, yeah, tollin' for the raked   Tollin' for the luckless, the abandoned and forsaked   Yeah, tollin' for the outcasts burnin' constantly at stakes   And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'   Oh yeah!      And then through a cloud-like curtain in a far off corner flashed   There's a hypnotic, splattered mist was slowly liftin'   Well, electric light still struck like arrows   Fired but for the ones, condemned to drift or else be kept from driftin'      Well, tollin' for the searching ones on this speechless, secret trail   For the lonesome haunted lovers with too personal a tale   And for each young heart for each channeled soul misplaced inside a jail   Yeah, we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'      Well, starry eyed and laughin' I recall when we were caught   Trapped by an old track of vows for the hands suspended   As we listened one last time, and we watched with one last look   Spellbound and swallowed "Has the tollin' ended?"      Yeah, tollin' for the achin' ones whose wounds cannot be nursed   For the countless, confused, accused, misused strung out ones at worst   And for every hung out person in the whole wide universe   And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'