(And We Gazed Upon the Chimes of) Freedom Flashing

Verse:

Everyday night I was in prison,

I thought of ways that I could win her back.

While the haunting cries of prisoners,

Filled walls and echoed through the black.

It was never my intention,

To get locked up, and leave her all alone.

But my fate was sealed that night,

When I lost control picked up that stone.

Chorus:

When I closed my eyes in those cold walls.

I flashed back to that last night that I was free.

Back before I got shot down,

On Broadway street in Nashville Tennessee.

Verse 2:

I was out there on a coal black street,

Hanging with the boys that I had backing.

When three boys from south of Mexico,

Came up behind me with some knives and started hacking.

I got tripped up on someone’s boot,

And fell right to the ground all on my own.

Then I tried to save my backing band,

With a bulldog will and a single stone.

Chorus:

When I closed my eyes in those cold walls.

I flashed back to that last night that I was free.

Back before I got shot down,

On Broadway street in Nashville Tennessee.

Verse 3:

When cops arrived on the scene,

Spurs and dust was all that they could see.

Then they saw me with the great big rock,

Beatin’ the livin’ out of those three.

They loaded and cocked their issued guns,

And aimed at the only criminal they could see.

No, not the three from El Salvador,

The fired all the their weaponry on me.

Chorus:

When I closed my eyes in those cold walls.

I flashed back to that last night that I was free.

Back before I got shot down,

On Broadway street in Nashville Tennessee.

Verse 4:

The first jury hung itself in shame.

They couldn’t decide on whether I should hang.

Of course I claimed self-defense.

But in the end they sided with the gang.

I got sent up on Friday night,

A victim of my own bravery.

But I’m a wretched sinner,

Don’t you dare feel sympathy for me.

Chorus:

When I closed my eyes in those cold walls.

I flashed back to that last night that I was free.

Back before I got shot down,

On Broadway street in Nashville Tennessee.

Verse 5:

I got out on a Wednesday.

From my 27 years in KSP.

I sent her a long letter.

But I guess she just didn’t want to hear from me.

I can’t say that I blame her.

I was a fool and threw it all away.

When she came into the station.

That night, there just wasn’t anything that I could say.

Chorus:

Now when I close my eyes at night,

I think of what you must think of me.

And think back to before I got shot down,

On Broadway street in Nashville Tennessee.

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