Far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken toll We ducked inside a doorway as thunder went 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 Through the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched With faces hidden as the walls were tightening As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin' rain Dissolved into the bells of the lightning Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake Tolling for the luckless, they abandoned and forsaked Tolling for the outcast, burning constantly at stake And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing Through the mad, mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder As the clanging of the church bells blew far into the breeze Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind And the poet and the painter far behind his rightful time And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin' In the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales For the disrobed faceless forms of no position Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts All down in taken-for-granted situations Tolling for the deaf and blind, tolling for the mute For the mistreated, mate-less mother, the mis-titled prostitute For the misdemeanor outlaw, chained and cheated by pursuit And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flared 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 driftin' 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 hang 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 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 flashin'

You want to know How it will be Me and her Or you and me You both stand there Your long hair flowing Your eyes alive, your mind still growing Saying to me What can we do now that we both love you? I love you too And I don't really see Why can't we go on as three You are afraid Embarrassed too No one has ever said such a thing to you Your mother's ghost stands at your shoulders A face like ice A little bit colder Saying to you "You cannot do that, it breaks all the rules" You learned in school But I don't really see Why can't we go on as three We love each other It's plain to see There's just one answer That comes to be Sister lovers Water brothers And in time maybe others So you see What we can do is to try something new If you're crazy too And I don't really see Why can't we go on as three

Fido stayed all night, he would not go home I asked him to leave, I said I do not have that bone I was feelin' lonesome sittin' by the phone Wide awake stayin' up late wishin' I was home You were on the outside talking to some chick I was on the inside feelin' mighty sick Sleep is what I wanted, you know what I got Wide awake... Dogs have it made, lyin' round in the shade Never have to worry about get there on time I can't help but wonder what was on your mind Ridin' round in the pouring rain, havin a heck of time Livin' may be easy, dyin' may be hard But I'm wide awake stayin' up late, sendin' my regards

You showed me how to do exactly what you do, How I fell in love with you Ohh ohh its true, oh I love you You showed me how to say, exactly what you say, in that very special way, ooh ooh its true, you fell for me too. And when I tried it, I could see her fall And I decided Its not a trip at all You taught it to me too, exactly what you do, and now you love me too. Ooh ooh its true, We're in love too La la la la la ooh ooh its true we're in love too You showed me how to do exactly what you do how I fell in love with you.