Ring them bells Ring them sorrowful bells Now freedom has come and gone We've been waiting so long Never ever so long Now freedom has come and gone Shake that tail Like any other worried soul Now freedom has come and gone Steam train's coming Thirteen stories high If that steam train don't come I swear I will lay down and die The city makes canyons All littered with snow And beneath their crummy towers Our tiny bodies blow and blow So drown them bells Drown them miserable bells Freedom has come and gone Freedom has come and gone Freedom has come and gone Freedom has come and gone We was all of us just tumbling birds hanging in the sky And hauled our bones 'long troubling roads and didn't none of us know why And as we staggered towards a frightening dawn I swear all I ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever believed in Was all of us together all along
We was all of us just shot birds tumbling through the sky And built cheap homes along company roads and didn't none of us ask why And as we staggered towards a frightening dawn I swear all I ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever believed in Was all of us together all along Imagine the view From a helicopter gunship And a man comes into view You hit that switch and you cut that man in two Imagine the view And they bounce that sh** off of satellite And they hit that switch and when they hit that switch All of heaven sh**s on you Imagine the view From the helicopter gunship A man comes into view And you hit that switch and you cut that man in two Imagine the view And they bounce that sh** off of satellite And they hit that switch and when they hit that switch All of heaven falls on you Imagine the view