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