Ode To Liberty The Protest Song Lyrics

Ode To Liberty The Protest Song lyrics

Ode To Liberty (Bain, Lynott) 

  

                 The dream was not a vision 

                 Or some preminition like we were told 

                 It was no figment of the imagination 

                 To prove that we could be bought or sold 

                 The doctor of the dimond run 

                 Could be revealed to the intellegent 

                 But this is what I resent Who cares for the ignorent, the 

                 intellegent The 

                 synics approch was mean 

                 Who cares for anything in this whole wide world except me 

                 And this opinion must not confuse the issue 

                 My appearence, my condition, Or state of delivery 

                 I am stating the obvious 

                 This is a protest 

                 There must me a collusion 

                 This is no Shakespearean speach 

                 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 pretensious 

                 To act as if it was hepocracy 

                 To act condisending 

                 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 suprise neuclear attack 

                 We must be ready to strike back 

                 I'm not pretending 

                 Our defense needs clearly mending 

                 We must leave those standing 

                 Forget the third world is ending 

                 Is starving, 

                 Is crying 

                 Is desolate, 

                 Is 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 fight 

                 I would turn to drink 

                 And drink is drugs 

                 And drugs would help me sink 

                 And like of boat, I 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 confirm our Father 

                 Just to learn, just to heal us