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

[jackedmonston]

Imagine what could have been if these two formed a band together. This and kings call are two of the most underrated songs ever

[firdausHITMAN]

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

[jameswood]

"I would dearly love to return/Through a mirror, in twenty years/And see what the future holds." He knew. Poor man. RIP.

[create]

Lynott with Knopfler? Guess greatness appreciates greatness.

[gemg]

I am in love with the sound of Mark's guitar!

[kitter]

Phil was a Poet, a Great musician and, above all, He gave every young Irish musician, learning to play guitar , a goal, to play music and be heard . legend !

[abderrahmanezizi]

Who is listening to this masterpiece in 2021?
You're a legend 😉

[moonwatcher]

One of the best songs of all time. Phil's voice along with Mark's guitar, and the lyrics, it is a dream made reality. Never get tired of hearing this song one more time, and another....

[adelhoudrouge]

Magical Mark Knopfler guitar sound.
Wow ...

[GuilhermeBezerr]

I met Phil through this song that played a lot on a Rock radio here in Brazil at the time of its release. From there I researched a lot about him, more and more enchanted by his incredible talent. He was a fantastic poet and I love this song. Phil is alive, more alive than ever in each of his songs.

[henrikdeniro]

Phil said in an interview that he was really drunk when he recorded this song. He could not get the right mood and feeling in the song, so he went out drinking and went in the studio 5 O´clock in the morning..Its a really cool song.
Met him twice in 1982-83. He was a true rocker and a gentleman. RIP

[garyfinn]

One of Phil's most profound songs which I think was so overlooked, unless you bought his albums & heard it

[jamesgreene]

Who is listening to this classic from the Legend Phil lynott in 2018 miss you Philo every day 🇮🇪

[jeffmolnar]

He was right on the money i wish he was here 32 years after his passing like he wished in this song.. he would be happy to see that Mark Knophler and Dire Straits made it in to the H0F..Lizzy should be there but, well you know. Phil's songs transcend any honors that can be given out and the joy he still brings!! ☘❤🖤☘⚘ rest well, you are the first one i want to greet when i get to heaven.. thank U, forever 🎸

[harrype]

At the age of 16 I wrote this Lyrics on my wardrobe. One of the best lyrics in Rock History. Philip was a true Poet!

[ChloeRochelle]

My brother and I jammed this song daily. Fave off the album. Still cry when we get deep about the music, the lyrics, .... We are hundreds of miles apart now but we still jam it ... toasting the Greatest of All Time

[BigChris]

They also done The Kings Call together about Elvis dying... the drums throughout that song really make it!!!

[jamesbradshaw]

My friend Phil Paris Lynott was a man for all seasons., If God gave you the gift of building your idea of the perfect rocker it would be Phil Paris Lynott, He was a direct descent of the ancient Irish warrior Cú Chulainn, the hound of Ulster. The blessed Phil was the cowboy, the porker player, the rocker, the wild Gipsey boy, the dancing Rudolph Valentino, the poet, the storyteller, the wise one, the lover, the lad how just got back to his town after his travels with many tales and stories to tells to his palls, the master wordsmith, the boy on the corner with his back to against the wall in the center of town with one leg bent and flat of foot placed on the wall for balance with cigaret in hand and a wing and glint in his eye for the passing girls. The man up front driving his warrior players in his band on. The vagabond of the western world, the teacher, the educator, the master musician. Listen to his words in Military Man, it will put a shiver down your back and make you think like never before about been guns and war.
He is thought of in equal terms as many of Irelands previous greats, Oscar Wild, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan, Jonathan Swift, Edna O'Brien, Thomas Moore, Lady Gregory, Seán Ó Ríordáin, Lady Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, George Bernard Shaw, Seán O'Casey etc Phill was a man for all seasons and anyone would have been as proud as punch to have been called his pall
Phil and Thin Lizzy music, poems and stories will be listened to in several hundreds years’ time. Mark my words on this I will be proven right on this.

[walterradtke]

I adore this song. Discovered Thin Lizzy when I was 14. Almost 40 years later and, they remain my all time favorite band.

[extrafalario]

Mark makes everything better. Great talent Lynott.