Ode To Liberty (The Protest Song)-Philip Lynott

[ti:Ode To Liberty (The Protest Song)] [ar:Philip Lynott] [al:Philip Lynott Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode To Liberty (The Protest Song) - Philip Lynott [00:37.93]The dream was not a vision [00:39.88] [00:41.25]Or some preminition [00:42.65]Like we were told [00:44.18] [00:45.96]It was no figment of the imagination [00:48.74] [00:49.58]To prove that we could [00:51.09]Be bought or sold [00:52.29] [00:53.42]The doctor of the diamond run [00:56.64]Could be revealed to the intellegent [00:59.73] [01:00.69]But this is what I resent [01:02.39] [01:03.50]Who cares for the ignorent [01:05.60] [01:06.35]The intellegent [01:07.90] [01:09.51]The synics approch was mean [01:11.69] [01:12.98]Who cares for anything [01:15.19]In this whole wide world [01:16.45]Except me [01:17.44] [01:20.11]And this opinion must not [01:21.86]Confuse the issue [01:23.59] [01:24.50]My appearence my condition [01:26.87]Or state of delivery [01:29.05] [01:30.93]I am stating the obvious [01:33.17] [01:34.42]This is a protest [01:36.60] [01:38.23]There must me a collusion [01:41.03] [01:42.05]This is no shakespearean speach [01:45.49] [01:47.05]This is a statement [01:48.73] [01:49.27]Made by one who can not [01:52.29]Practice what he preaches [01:54.27] [02:07.11]The statue of liberty [02:09.20] [02:10.25]Has engraved on it's wall [02:12.47] [02:15.60]Give me your poor [02:17.08]Give me your needy [02:18.17] [02:19.34]Give me them all [02:20.36] [02:23.33]We need something like this [02:25.59] [02:27.14]For this world to coexist [02:29.36] [02:31.17]It would be so easy [02:32.96] [02:34.04]To act so pretensious [02:36.91] [02:37.85]To act as if it was hepocracy [02:41.00] [02:42.17]To act condisending [02:44.70] [02:46.38]When in fact it's the [02:48.45]World were mending [02:49.89] [02:51.13]And that's why I can't relax [02:53.42] [02:54.90]'Cause inside my coat [02:57.50]It's a pistol that I pack [02:59.50] [03:00.78]We must beware of [03:02.76]A suprise neuclear attack [03:05.24] [03:06.56]We must be ready [03:07.76]To strike back [03:09.27] [03:11.64]I'm not pretending [03:12.46] [03:14.35]Our defense needs [03:15.84]Clearly mending [03:16.70] [03:17.74]We must leave [03:18.95]Those standing [03:20.52] [03:21.61]Forget the third [03:22.93]World is ending [03:25.65] [03:26.53]Is starving is crying [03:33.49] [03:43.14]Is desolate is oh so late [03:48.03] [03:57.27]I would dearly love to return [04:00.35] [04:01.44]Through a mirror [04:02.72]In twenty years [04:03.73] [04:04.45]And learn what the [04:07.92]Future has in store for us [04:10.25] [04:13.24]And if I learned that we lost [04:16.48] [04:17.54]And there was no hope [04:19.60] [04:21.05]For those that fight [04:22.30] [04:24.37]I would turn to drink [04:25.72] [04:27.76]And drink is drugs [04:29.58] [04:31.65]And drugs would help me sink [04:33.77] [04:37.45]And like of boat I float [04:39.72] [04:43.43]I sail out to the sky [04:45.94] [04:47.79]To the universe and back [04:49.74] [04:52.17]Maybe to give it another try [04:53.75] [04:55.46]I don't know why why jack [04:57.53] [05:01.20]Just to confirm our father [05:03.27] [05:05.14]Just to learn just to heal us