swans - 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