Like A Rolling Stone
Once upon a time you dressed so fine You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you ? People’d call, say, "Beware doll, you’re bound to fall." You thought they were all kiddin' you You used to laugh about Everybody that was hangin' out Now you don’t talk so loud Now you don’t seem so proud About having to be scrounging for your next meal. How does it feel? How does it feel To be without a home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone ? You’ve gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely But you know you only used to get juiced in it And nobody’s ever taught you how to live out on the street And now you’re gonna have to get used to it You said you’d never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realize He’s not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say do you want to make a deal? How does it feel? How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home A complete unknown Like a rolling stone ? You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns When they all come down and did tricks for you You never understood that it ain’t no good You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat Ain’t it hard when you discover that He really wasn’t where it’s at After he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel? How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone ? Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people They’re all drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made Exchanging all precious gifts But you’d better take your diamond ring, you’d better pawn it babe You used to be so amused At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose You’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal. How does it feel How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone ?
One Too Many Mornings
Down the street the dogs are barkin' And the day is a-gettin' dark As the night comes in a-fallin' The dogs’ll lose their bark An' the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my minds For I’m one too many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From the crossroads of my doorstep My eyes start to fade As I turn my head back to the room Where my love and I have laid An' I gaze back to the street The sidewalk and the sign And I’m one too many mornings An' a thousand miles behind. It’s a restless hungry feeling That don’t mean no one no good When ev’rything I’m a-sayin' You can say it just as good You’re right from your side I’m right from mine We’re both just too many mornings An' a thousand miles behind.
Mr. Tambourine Man
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin' you. Though I know that evenin’s empire has returned into sand Vanished from my hand Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping My weariness amazes me, I’m branded on my feet I have no one to meet And the ancient empty street’s too dead for dreaming. Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin' you. Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels To be wanderin' I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way I promise to go under it. Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin' you. Though you might hear laughin', spinnin' swingin' madly across the sun It’s not aimed at anyone, it’s just escapin' on the run And but for the sky there are no fences facin' And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme To your tambourine in time, it’s just a ragged clown behind I wouldn’t pay it any mind, it’s just a shadow you’re Seein' that he’s chasing. Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin' you. Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves Let me forget about today until tomorrow. Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin' you.
It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry
Well, I ride on a mailtrain, babe Can’t buy a thrill Well, I’ve been up all night Leanin' on the window sill Well, if I die On top of the hill And if I don’t make it You know my baby will. Don’t the moon look good, mama Shinin' through the trees ? Don’t the brakeman look good, mama Ragging down the "Double E" ? Don’t the sun look good Goin' down over the sea ? Don’t my gal look fine When she’s comin' after me ? Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don’t wanna be your boss Don’t say I never warned you When your train gets lost.
I Want You
The guilty undertaker sighs The lonesome organ grinder cries The silver saxophones say I should refuse you The cracked bells and washed-out horns Blow into my face with scorn But it’s not that way I wasn’t born to lose you I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you. The drunken politician leaps Upon the street where mothers weep And the saviors who are fast asleep They wait for you And I wait for them to interrupt Me drinkin' from my broken cup And ask for me Open up the gate for you I want you, I want you Yes, I want you so bad Honey, I want you. Now all my fathers they’ve gone down True love they’ve been without it But all their daughters put me down 'Cause I don’t think about it. Well, I return to the Queen of Spades And talk with my chambermaid She knows that I’m not afraid To look at her She is good to me And there’s nothing she doesn’t see She knows where I’d like to be But it doesn’t matter I want you, I want you Yes, I want you so bad Honey, I want you. Now your dancing child with his Chinese suit He spoke to me, I took his flute No, I wasn’t very cute to him - Was I ? But I did though because he lied Because he took you for a ride And because time was on his side And because I .. I want you, I want you Yes, I want you so bad Honey, I want you.
When The Ship Comes In
Oh the time will come up When the winds will stop And the breeze will cease to be breathin' Like the stillness in the wind 'Fore the hurricane begins The hours when the ship comes ind. And the seas will split And the ship will hit And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking Then the tide will sound And the wind will pound And the morning will be breaking. Oh the fishes will laugh As they swim out of the path And the seagulls they’ll be smiling And the rocks on the sand Will proudly stand The hour that the ship comes in. And the words that are used For to get the ship confused Will not be understood as they’re spoken For the chains of the sea Will have busted in the night And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean. A song will lift As the mainsail shifts And the boat drifts on to the shoreline And the sun will respect Every face on the deck The hour that the ship comes in. Then the sands will roll Out a carpet of gold For your weary toes to be a-touchin' And the ship’s wise men Will remind you once again That the whole wide world is watchin'. Oh the foes will rise With the sleep in their eyes And they’ll jerk from their beds and think they’re dreamin' But they’ll pinch themselves and squeal And know that it’s for real The hour that the ship comes in. Then they’ll raise their hands Sayin' we’ll meet all your demands But we’ll shout from the bow your days are numbered And like Pharaoh’s tribe They’ll be drownded in the tide And like Goliath, they’ll be conquered.
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'. Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won’t come again And don’t speak too soon For the wheel’s still in spin And there’s no tellin' who That it’s namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'. Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside And it is ragin' It’ll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'. Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don’t criticize What you can’t understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'. The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin' And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Johny’s in the basement Mixing up the medicine I’m on the pavement Thinking about the government The man in a trench coat Badge out, laid off Says he’s got a bad cough Wants to get it paid off Look out kid It’s somethin' you did God knows when But you’re doin' it again You better duck down the alley way Lookin' for a new friend A man in a coon-skin cap In a pig pen Wants eleven dollar bills You only got ten. Maggie comes fleet foot Face full of black soot Talkin' that the heat put Plants in the bed but The phone’s tapped anyway Maggie says that many say They must bust in early May Orders from the DA Look out kid Don’t matter what you did Walk on your tip toes Don’t tie no bows Better stay away from those That carry around a fire hose Keep a clean nose Wash the plain clothes You don’t need a weather man To know which way the wind blows. Get sick, get well Hang around an ink well Ring bell, hard to tell If anything’s gonna sell Try hard, get barred Get back, write Braille Get jailed, jump bail Join the army, if you fail Look out kid You’re gonna get hit But losers, cheaters Six-time users Hang around the theaters Girl by the whirlpool is Lookin' for a new fool Don’t follow leaders Watch the parkin' meters. Ah get born, keep warm Short pants, romance, learn to dance Get dressed, get blessed Try to be a success Please her, please him, buy gifts Don’t steal, don’t lift Twenty years of schoolin' And they put you on the day shift Look out kid They keep it all hid Better jump down a manhole Light yourself a candle Don’t wear sandals Try to avoid the scandals Don’t wanna be a bum You better chew gum The pump don’t work 'Cause the vandals took the handles.
Highway 61 Revisited
Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on" God say, "No." Abe say, "What ?" God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but The next time you see me comin' you better run" Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done ?" God says. "Out on Highway 61". Well Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose Welfare Department they wouldn’t give him no clothes He asked poor Howard where can I go Howard said there’s only one place I know Sam said tell me quick man I got to run Ol' Howard just pointed with his gun And said that way down on Highway 61. Well Mack the finger said to Louie the King I got forty red white and blue shoe strings And a thousand telephones that don’t ring Do you know where I can get ride of these things And Louie the King said let me think for a minute son And he said yes I think it can be easily done Just take everything down to Highway 61. Now the fift daughter on the twelfth night Told the first father that things weren’t right My complexion she said is much too white He said come here and step into the light he says hmmm you’re right Let me tell second mother this has been done But the second mother was with the seventh son And they were both out on Highway 61. Now the rowin' gambler he was very bored He was tryin' to create a next world war He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor He said I never engaged in this kind of thing before But yes I think it can be very easily done We’ll just put some bleachers out in the sun And have it on Highway 61.
Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35
Well, they’ll stone ya when you’re trying to be so good They’ll stone ya just a-like they said they would They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin' to go home Then they’ll stone ya when you’re there all alone But I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned. Well, they’ll stone ya when you’re walkin' 'long the street They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin' to keep your seat They’ll stone ya when you’re walkin' on the floor They’ll stone ya when you’re walkin' to the door But I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned. They’ll stone ya when you’re at the breakfast table They’ll stone ya when you are young and able They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin' to make a buck They’ll stone ya and then they’ll say "good luck" Tell ya what, I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned. Well, They’ll stone you and say that it’s the end Then they’ll stone you and then they’ll come back again They’ll stone you when you’re riding in your car They’ll stone you when you’re playing your guitar Yes, but I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned. Well, they’ll stone you when you walk all alone They’ll stone you when you are walking home They’ll stone you and then say you are brave They’ll stone you when you are set down in your grave But I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned.
Ballad In Plain D
I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly, but now she is gone Gone as the season she’s taken. Through young summer’s breeze, I stole her away From her mother and sister, though close did they stay Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day With strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us. Of the two sister, I loved the young With sensitive instincts, she was the creative one The constant scapegoat, she was easily undone By the jealousy of others around her. For her parasite sister, I had no respect Bound by her boredom, her pride to protect Countless visions of the other she’d reflect As a crutch for her scenes and her society. Myself, for what I did, I cannot be excused The changes I was going through can’t even be used For the lies that I told her in hopes not to lose The could-be dream-lover of my lifetime. With unseen consciousness, I possessed in my grip A magnificent mantelpiece, though its heart being chipped Noticing not that I’d already slipped To a sin of love’s false security. From silhouetted anger to manufactured peace Answers of emptiness, voice vacancies Till the tombstones of damage read me no question but, "Please What’s wrong and what’s exactly the matter ?" And so it did happen, like it could have been foreseen The timeless explosion of fantasy’s dream At the peak of the night, the king and the queen Tumbled all down into pieces. "The tragic figure" her sister did shout "Leave her alone, God damn you, get out" And I in my armor, turning about And nailing her in the ruins of her pettiness. Beneath a bare light bulb the plaster did pound Her sister and I in a screaming battleground And she in between, the victim of sound Soon shattered as a child to the shadows. All is gone, all is gone, admit it, take flight I gagged in contradiction, tears blinding my sight My mind it was mangled, I ran into the night Leaving all of love’s ashes behind me. The wind knocks my window, the room it is wet The words to say I’m sorry, I haven’t found yet I think of her often and hope whoever she’s met Will be fully aware of how precious she is. Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me "How good, how good does it feel to be free "? And I answer them most mysteriously "Are birds free from the chains of the skyway"?
Positively 4th Street
You got a lotta nerve To say you are my friend When I was down you just stood there grinning You got a lotta nerve To say you gotta helping hand to lend You just want to be on the side that’s winning You say I let you down You know it’s not like that If your so hurt why then don’t you show it You say you’ve lost your faith But that’s not where it’s at You have no faith to lose and you know it I know the reason that you talk behind my back I used to be among the crowd you’re in with Do you take me for such a fool To think I’d make contact With the on who tries to hide what it don’t know to begin with You see me on the street You always act surprised You say how are you good luck but you don’t mean it When you know as well as me You’d rather see me paralyzed Why don’t you just come out once and scream it No I do not feel that good when I see the heartbreaks you embrace If I was a master thief perhaps I’d rob them And though I know your dissatisfied With your position and your place Don’t you understand it’s not my problem I wish that for just one time You could stand inside my shoes And for just that one moment I could be you Yes I wish that for just one time You could stand inside my shoes You’d know what a drag it is to see you
Blowin' In The Wind
How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they’re forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind. Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist Before it is washed to the sea? Yes, and how many years can some people exist Before they’re allowed to be free? Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn’t see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind. Yes, and how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, and how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Just Like A Woman
Nobody feels any pain Tonight as I stand inside the rain Ev’rybody knows That Baby’s got new clothes But lately I see her ribbons and her bows Have fallen from her curls She takes just like a woman, yes she does She makes love just like a woman, yes she does And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl. Queen Mary, she’s my friend Yes, I believe I’ll go see her again Nobody has to guess That Baby can’t be blessed Till she finally sees that she’s like all the rest With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls She takes just like a woman, yes she does She makes love just like a woman, yes she does And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl. It’s was raining from the first And I was dying there of thirst So I came in here And your long-time curse hurts But what’s worse Is this pain in here I can’t stay in here Ain’t it clear that. I just can’t fit Yes, I believe it’s time for us to quit When we meet again Introduced as friends Please don’t let on that you knew me when I was hungry and it was your world Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes you do You make love just like a woman, yes you do Then you ache just like a woman But you break just like a little girl.
Queen Jane Approximately
When your mother sends back all your invitations And your father to your sister he explains That you’re tired of yourself and all of your creations Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane ? Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane ? Now when all of the flower ladies want back what they have lent you And the smell of their roses does not remain And all of your children start to resent you Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane ? Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane ? Now when all the clowns that you have commissioned Have died in battle or in vain And you’re sick of all this repetition Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane ? Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane ? When all of your advisers heave their plastic At your feet to convince you of your pain Trying to prove that your conclusions should be more drastic Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane ? Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane ? Now when all of the bandits that you turned your other cheek to All lay down their bandanas and complain And you want somebody you don’t have to speak to Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane ? Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane ?
It Ain’t Me Babe
Go 'way from my window Leave at your own chosen speed I’m not the one you want, babe I’m not the one you need You say you’re lookin' for someone Who’s never weak but always strong To protect you an' defend you Whether you are right or wrong Someone to open each and every door But it ain’t me, babe No, no, no, it ain’t me, babe It ain’t me you’re lookin' for, babe. Go lightly from the ledge, babe Go lightly on the ground I’m not the one you want, babe I will only let you down You say you’re lookin' for someone Who will promise never to part Someone to close his eyes for you Someone to close his heart Someone who will die for you an' more But it ain’t me, babe No, no, no, it ain’t me babe It ain’t me you’re lookin' for, babe. Go melt back in the night Everything inside is made of stone There’s nothing in here moving An' anyway I’m not alone You say you’re looking for someone Who’ll pick you up each time you fall To gather flowers constantly An' to come each time you call A lover for your life an' nothing more But it ain’t me, babe No, no, no, it ain’t me, babe It ain’t me you’re lookin' for, babe.