Listen to Chimes of Freedom (Live at Stockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm, SE - July 1988) by Bruce Springsteen

Chimes of Freedom (Live at Stockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm, SE - July 1988)

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

Lead Vocals

Nils Lofgren

Rhythm Guitar

Patti Scialfa

Background Vocals

Clarence Clemons

Clarence Clemons

Percussion

Max Weinberg

Drums

Roy Bittan

Piano

Danny Federici

Organ

Garry Tallent

Bass Guitar

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Bob Dylan

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

Producer

Jon Landau

Producer

Toby Scott

Live Recording Engineer

Bob Clearmountain

Bob Clearmountain

Mixing Engineer

Chuck Plotkin

Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Earlier today, Amnesty International

Announced a worldwide tour to celebrate

The fortieth anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights

The Declaration of Human Rights is a document

It was signed by every government in the world

Forty years ago, recognizing the existence

Of certain inalienable human rights for everyone

Regardless of your race, your color, your sex, your religion

Your political opinion or the type of government that you're livin' under

I was glad to be asked to participate

And I'm proud to join Sting and Peter Gabriel

Youssou N'Dour, Tracy Chapman, in a tour that's gonna begin in early September

That's gonna run for about six weeks

So, I'd like to dedicate this next song

To the people of Amnesty International

And their idea

So when we come to your town

Come on out

Support the tour

Support human rights for everyone now

And let freedom ring

[Verse 2]

Well, far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken toll

We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing

As majestic bells of boats struck shadows in the sun

Saying it may be the chimes of freedom crashing

[Verse 3]

Flashing for the warriors, whose strength is not to fight

Flashing 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 flashing

[Verse 4]

Well, in the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched

With faces hidden here while the walls were tightening

As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowing rain

Dissolved into the wild bales of lightning

[Verse 5]

Yeah, tollin' for the rebel, yeah, tollin' for the raked

Tollin' for the luckless, the abandoned, and forsaken

Yeah, tollin' for the outcasts burning constantly at stakes

And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

[Verse 6]

Alright, guys!

[Verse 7]

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'

[Verse 8]

Well, tolling 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 flashing

[Verse 9]

Well, starry-eyed and laughing, 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 tolling ended?"

[Verse 10]

Yeah, tollin' for the aching 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

Yeah, we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

[Verse 11]

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh

Written by: Bob Dylan

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