The Sound of Freedom

Lyrics for The Sound of Freedom

We're standing by a river in a place where nothing moves And the white light in the sky is meaningless and cruel And we turn our face away from a cold and violent wind And we bow our heads down And we pray to the sound of freedom With a mirror in my mind and my eyes burned in the fire Drunk on self-deception and punished by desire Leaping directly into a bright white sea I'll keep myself breathing And I'll swallow the sound of freedom Nobody else can see you, nobody knows you feel Go further back inside you, where nothing else is real Now, throw yourself into a pool of silence you can see And hold the mirror before your eyes And light the white light It's the sound of freedom Now, time is just a picture that moves before your eyes And every lie that I believe is falsely compromised And this is not a sound, and we are not alive And someone else was here before, in someone else's mind And the ground we walk is sacred, and every object lives And every word we speak will punish or forgive And the light inside your body will shine through history Set fire to every prison, set every dead man free And the air we're breathing now, we breathed a million times The darkest dreams we dreamed were dreamed by other minds So take us to the water, and take us to the sound And wash my soul away where it can never be found And the white light that surrounds us Is the sound of freedom pounding And the ground that opens up It spits the fire from freedom's mouth And the concrete, glass and steel Break with a freedom you can feel And the wind that blows through Heaven Yeah, it screams the sound of freedom And the violence that destroys Is the birth of freedom singing And the lovers in the field They make the sound of freedom bleeding And the pain that eats my mind Is the shout of freedom's life And the fire that burns this city Is the white light in freedom's eye And the white light is the sound Yet it is the sound Of freedom