The bells are ringing for you now The beast has turned against the plow You can run but you can't escape the sound Of the roar of your kingdom crashing down You can't hide in halls of ivory Or deny the children left to feed What will sound at first like tambourines Is the sound of the death squad you hear ring On a hill there's a man who knows a door And it's battered by the wind And he's seen it down before But he's happy to go in And he's crippled as he climbs For the people he must feed To the promises he keeps When he reaches the belfry Let it chime And he chimes To the wind The bells are ringing for you now And the beasts are running down the streets now Every man and woman have their price You can't win the bounty's set too high You got dreams you share with me my love You got dreams but you also got rust You got time, lost of time for us The bells are ringing for you now What do you see when you lie awake and think And the image on the wall Where you threw your last drink Where the messages are scrawled For ethiopia And cambodia For el salvador Hiroshima mon amour And they chime And they chime In the wind And it burns