Phil Lynott featuring Mark Knopfler - Ode to Liberty

An underappreciated gem from "The Philip Lynott Album" featuring Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits

Lyrics:
After checking all the lyrics sites I found that they all have the same set of lyrics filled with mistakes so I've fixed some of them but probably not all of them

The dream was not a vision
Or some premonition like we were told
It was no figment of the imagination
To prove that we could be bought or sold

The doctor of the diamond run
Could be revealed to the intelligent
But this is what i resent
Who cares for the ignorant, the intelligent
The cynics approach was must be
Who cares for anything in this whole wide world
Except me

And this opinion must not confuse the issue
My appearance, my condition, or state of delivery
I am stating the obvious
This is a protest
There must me a collusion
This is no Shakespearean speech
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 pretentious
To act as if it was democracy
To act condescending
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 surprise nuclear attack
We must be ready to strike back
I'm not pretending
Our defenses, they need mending
We must leave those standing
Forget the third world is ending
Is starving, is crying
Is desolate, it's 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 think
I would turn to drink
And drink is drugs
And drugs would help me sink
And like of boat, I'd 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 go further and farther
Just to learn, just to be nearer

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• lynott
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• knopfler
• thin
• lizzy
• dire
• straits
• liberty
• philip
• album
• solo
• soho
• king's
• call
• kings

[pduvall100]

Been searching for this song for a long time- heard it only 1 time back

around '93-`94 on our local (progressive) radio station 99.1=WHFS and

was fortunate enough to record it onto cassette from the radio station.

What a talent and legend Phil Lynott was. He left us way too

early. At least we still have his music. Remmember Phil.

Thank you so much for posting this.

[doykeyes92]

@pduvall100 Yeah really is one of my favourite songs ever, I was surprised when I saw that it wasn't posted before me. Thanks for watchin

[fIRsTRATmAN]

Mark Knopfler and Phil Lynott, this must be a dream.

[TheFelixnavidad]

classical song! two genius reunited, what else to say? Viva la libertad, vive la liberté...

[Fangalatic]

@pduvall100 Buy the "Phil Lynott Album" by Phil Lynott.

[droitwichblue]

I bought this album at the time of its release, Lynott's second solo effort. My two greatest hero's in one song , not as good as King's Call but great especially Knopfler's guitar!!!

[KNOPFLERSGOD]

Fantastic song, and amazing guitar work from Mark as always, shame they didn't do more work together than this and King's Call.

[eireseeker]

Great combination of genius!

[steverid]

@pduvall100 I really, really miss WHFS. I live down in Alexandria & was working in my garage with the radio on the day WHFS switched over to a Spanish station. It was exactly 12 noon & i was like...WTF just happened? I had been listening to WHFS since I was a kid in the mid 70's. It was like a good friend died that day :(

[HuDaFuK]

Never really taken the time to get into Lynott's solo stuff, but songs like this make me determined to do it one day.

[fIRsTRATmAN]

Mark Knopfler's beautiful rythm and smooth fluid guitar lines make this song; Phil Lynott's vocals match and blend with it superbly giving us this unbelievable sound.

Mark Knopfler and Phil Lynott what a combo!

[abskbooo]

e o vocal do phill??? ficaria bem melhor viva thin lizzy THIN LIZZY

[jhs5150]

He sounds like Knopfler doing Dylan. Not knocking him - I just don't understand the thought behind the singing style. If Knopfler sang it it would sound like a Dire Straits tune. It sounds like that anyway.