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

Earlier today Amnesty International announced a worldwide tour to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Declaration Of Human Rights

The Declaration Of Human Rights is a document that was signed by every government in the world 40 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 living under

I, 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 and is gonna run for about six weeks

So, I'd like to get a... dedicate this next song to the people at 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 reign

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

We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing

As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sound

Seeming to be the chimes of freedom crashing

Yeah, 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

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

Yeah, tolling for the rebel, yeah, tolling for the rake

Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned and forsaken

Yeah, tolling for the outcast, burning constantly at stake

Now we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

Alright now

Now and then through a cloud-like curtain in a far off corner flashed

As the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting

Well, electric light still struck like arrows

Fired but for the ones condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting

Well, 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

Yeah, we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

Well, starry-eyed and laughing, I recall when we were caught

Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended

As we listened one last time and we watched with one last look

Spellbound and swallowed as the tolling ended

Yeah, tolling for the aching ones 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

Now we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

Ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah