Bruce Springsteen - Chimes Of Freedom video free download


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Chimes of freedom from Copenhagen 1988

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'

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'

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

We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

Comments

8 years ago

boofhead

he liked it som much that he copied the progression and melody for "No surrender"

8 years ago

trapper2

I guess that Springsteen wanted to combine the Byrds' version of this song with some of Dylan's original feel. I believe he succeeded admirably on a difficult task. Great stuff.

8 years ago

Nella Crosiglia

a wonder

8 years ago

Nella Crosiglia

a wonder

8 years ago

Don Benevento

Springsteen never wrote a song of this caliber.

9 years ago

Teresa O'Neill

The Boss totally gets it...he is humbled to sing this, and does it justice

9 years ago

Rikki Moen

*THE BOSS**Chimes of Freedom**___________________**LIKE TO SEE WHO OF THE BOSS, BOB DYLAN, THE BYRDS GET MOST LIKE:)*

9 years ago

Derek Nashkawa

Bruce Is Bruce As bob is bob to each his own like em both:-!

9 years ago

austin teutsch

Ross Barrow is correct. I too had reservations about Springsteen but when I saw him live, with THE BIG MAN on sax and Max Weinberg on drums, well, I was sold. Like Grand Funk Railroad, Bruce is the garage musician's musician. They both gave hope to solid, good bands who probably will never make as big as they did, but they give hope through their raw talent. So many great bands like them are out there playing nightly in clubs and practicing in their basements or garages with their parent's car stuck forever in the driveway!

9 years ago

johnnyM809

Just look at the emotion that Springsteen puts into this great Dylan song. For me he is in a class of his own.

9 years ago

JODY CRAWFORD

Bruce Springsteen-Chimes of Freedom

9 years ago

Peach Pinkmew

Beautiful song!

9 years ago

bodhichitta2

masterpiece.

9 years ago

AIRWOLF

The bossis the greatest

9 years ago

Tiziana Lelii

Bellissimo il testo di questa canzone scritta da Bob Dylan.Bellissima la versione del BOSS.Voce unica.Grande come sempre BRUCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

9 years ago

Sam Azer

Bruce Springsteen - Chimes Of Freedom

9 years ago

eilidhm2

as I've said before, Dylan wrote it and Bruce is singing it - can't think of anything more than that....

9 years ago

computacionydiseno

Happy Birthday Bruce!

9 years ago

Matthias Fink

Awesome powerful version of a great song (as Bruce said: one of greatest songs about human freedom ever written). Don't like the Byrds version not so much, to be honest. Not bad but too schmaltzy (love the word), that's the Byrds. Then rather the original.

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