WE REMEMBER 1984 - MASSACRE BLUE STAR - 5 JUNE 1984

We move on now, to June 5, 1984, with more events and eyewitness accounts, including an interview with Pritam Kaur, wife of Sant Gianai Jarnail Singh Khalsa Bhindranwale's P.A.

CHIMES of FREEDOM

by Bob Dylan

verse five

Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flashed

An' the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting

Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones

Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting

Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail

For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale

An' for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

MASSACRE BLUE STAR - JUNE 1984

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And eyewitness accounts of 4 June.

CHIMES of FREEDOM

by Bob Dylan

verses three and four

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail

The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze

Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder

Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind

Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind

An' the unpawned painter behind behind his rightful time

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales

For the disrobed faceless forms of no position

Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts

All down in taken-for-granted situations

Tolling for the deaf an' blind, tolling for the mute

Tolling for the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute

For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an' cheated by pursuit

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.