Phil Lynott featuring Mark Knopfler - Ode to Liberty video free download

An underappreciated gem from "The Philip Lynott Album" featuring Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits

Lyrics:

After checking all the lyrics sites I found that they all have the same set of lyrics filled with mistakes so I've fixed some of them but probably not all of them

The dream was not a vision

Or some premonition like we were told

It was no figment of the imagination

To prove that we could be bought or sold

The doctor of the diamond run

Could be revealed to the intelligent

But this is what i resent

Who cares for the ignorant, the intelligent

The cynics approach was must be

Who cares for anything in this whole wide world

Except me

And this opinion must not confuse the issue

My appearance, my condition, or state of delivery

I am stating the obvious

This is a protest

There must me a collusion

This is no Shakespearean speech

This is a statement

Made by one who can not practice what he preaches

The statue of liberty

Has engraved on it's wall

Give me your poor, give me your needy

Give me them all

We need something like this

For this world to coexist

It would be so easy

To act so pretentious

To act as if it was democracy

To act condescending

When in fact it's the world we're mending

And that's why i can't relax

Cause inside my coat it's a pistol that i pack

We must beware of a surprise nuclear attack

We must be ready to strike back

I'm not pretending

Our defenses, they need mending

We must leave those standing

Forget the third world is ending

Is starving, is crying

Is desolate, it's oh so late

I would dearly love to return

Through a mirror in twenty years

And learn what the future has in store for us

And if i learned that we lost

And there was no hope

For those that think

I would turn to drink

And drink is drugs

And drugs would help me sink

And like of boat, I'd float

I sail out to the sky

To the universe and back

Maybe to give it another try

I don't know why, why jack

Just to go further and farther

Just to learn, just to be nearer