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
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 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
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 Of freedom