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Another Side of Bob Dylan
by Bob Dylan
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3.5150
Another Side of Bob Dylan Lyrics
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- I ain't lookin' to compete with you
- Beat or cheat or mistreat you
- Simplify you, classify you
- Deny, defy or crucify you
- All I really want to do
- Is, baby, be friends with you.
- No, and I ain't lookin' to fight with you
- Frighten you or tighten you
- Drag you down or drain you down
- Chain you down or bring you down
- All I really want to do
- Is, baby, be friends with you.
- I ain't lookin' to block you up
- Shock or knock or lock you up
- Analyze you, categorize you
- Finalize you or advertise you
- All I really want to do
- Is, baby, be friends with you.
- I don't want to straight-face you
- Race or chase you, track or trace you
- Or disgrace you or displace you
- Or define you or confine you
- All I really want to do
- Is, baby, be friends with you.
- I don't want to meet your kin
- Make you spin or do you in
- Or select you or dissect you
- Or inspect you or reject you
- All I really want to do
- Is, baby, be friends with you.
- I don't want to fake you out
- Take or shake or forsake you out
- I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me
- See like me or be like me
- All I really want to do
- Is, baby, be friends with you.
- I woke in the mornin' wand'rin'
- Worried and worn out
- I woke in the mornin' wand'rin'
- Worried and worn out
- Wishin' my long-lost lover
- Will walk to me, talk to me
- Tell me what it's all about.
- I was standin' at the side road
- Listenin' to the billboard knock
- Standin' at the side road
- Listenin' to the billboard knock
- Well, my wrist was empty
- But my nerves were kickin'
- Thickin' like a clock.
- If I got anything you need, babe
- Let me tell you in front
- If I got anything you need, babe
- Let me tell you in front
- You can come to me sometime
- Night time, day time
- Any time you want.
- Sometimes I'm thinkin I'm
- To high to fall
- Sometimes I'm thinkin I'm
- To high to fall
- Other times I'm thinkin' I'm
- So low I don't know
- If I can come up at all.
- Black crows in the meadow
- Sleeping across a broad highway
- Black crows in the meadow
- Across a broad highway
- Though its funny, honey
- I just don't feel much like a
- Scarecrow today.
- Gypsy gal, the hands of Harlem
- Cannot hold you to its heat
- Your temperature's too hot for taming
- Your flaming feet burn up the street
- I am homeless, come and take me
- To the reach of your rattling drums
- Let me know, babe, all about my fortune
- Down alone my restless palms.
- Gypsy gal, you got me swallowed
- I have fallen far beneath
- Your pearly eyes, so fast an' slashing
- An' your flashing diamond teeth
- The night is pitch black, come an' make my
- Pale face fit into place, ah, please!
- Let me know, babe, I am nearly drowning
- If it's you my lifelines trace.
- I been wond'rin' all about me
- Ever since I seen you there
- On the cliffs of your wildcat charms I'm riding
- I know I'm 'round you but I don't know where
- You've slayed me, you have made me
- I got to laugh halfways off my heels
- I got to know, babe, will you surround me
- So I can know if I'm really real.
- Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll
- We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing
- As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds
- Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing
- Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight
- Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight
- An' for each an' ev'ry underdog soldier in the night
- An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
- In the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched
- With faces hidden as the walls were tightening
- As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin' rain
- Dissolved into the bells of the lightning
- Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
- Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an' forsaked
- Tolling for the outcast, burnin' constantly at stake
- An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
- 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 poet an the painter far behind his rightful time
- An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
- In 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
- 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.
- Even though a clouds'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 unharmfull, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
- An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
- Starry-eyed an' laughing as I recall when we were caught
- Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
- As we listened one last time an' we watched with one last look
- Spellbound an' swallowed 'til the tolling ended
- Tolling for the aching whose wounds cannot be nursed
- For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse
- An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
- An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
- I'm just average, common too
- I'm just like him, the same as you
- I'm everybody's brother and son
- I ain't different than anyone
- It ain't no use a-talking to me
- It's just the same as talking to you.
- I was shadow-boxing earlier in the day
- I figured I was ready for Cassius Clay
- I said "Fee, fie, fo, fum, Cassius Clay here I come
- 26, 27, 28, 29, I'm gonna make your face look just like mine
- Five, four, three, two, one, Cassius Clay you'd better run
- 99, 100 101, 102, your ma won't even recognize you
- 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, gonna knock him clean right out of his spleenf.
- Well, I don't know, but I've been told
- The streets in heaven are lined with gold<
- I ask you how things could get much worse
- If the Russians happen to get up there first
- Wowee! pretty scary !
- Now, I'm liberal, but to a degree
- I want ev'rybody to be free
- But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater
- Move in next door and mary my daughter
- You must think I'm crazy !
- I wouldn't let him do it for all the farms in Cuba.
- Well, I set my monkey on the log
- And ordered him to do the Dog
- He wagged his tail and shook his head
- And he went and did the Cat instead
- He's a weird monkey, very funky.
- I sat with my high-heeled sneakers on
- Waiting to play tennis in the noonday sun
- I had my white shorts rolled up past my waist
- And my wig-hat falling in my face
- But they wouldn't let me on the tennis court.
- I gotta woman, she's so mean
- She sticks my boots in the washing machine
- Sticks me with buckshot when I'm nude
- Puts bubblegum in my food
- She's funny, wants my money, calls me honey.
- Now I gotta friend who spends his life
- Stabbing my picture with a bowie-knife
- Dreams of strangling me with a scarf
- When my name comes up he pretends to barf
- I've got a million friends !
- Now they asked me to read a poem
- At the sorority sister's home
- I got knocked down and my head was swimmin'
- I wound up with the Dean of Women
- Yippee ! I'm a poet, and I know it
- Hope I don't blow it.
- I'm gonna grow my hair down to my feet so strange
- So I look like a walking mountain range
- And I'm gonna ride into Omaha on a horse
- Out to the country club and the golf course
- Carry the New York Times, shoot a few holes, blow their minds.
- You're probably wondering by now
- Just what this song is all about
- What's probably got you baffled more
- What this thing here is for
- It's nothing
- It's something I learned over in England
- Ramona, come closer
- Shut softly your watery eyes
- The pangs of your sadness
- Will pass as your senses will rise
- The flowers of the city
- Though breathlike, get deathlike at times
- And there's no use in tryin'
- To deal with the dyin'
- Though I cannot explain that in lines.
- Your cracked country lips
- I still wish to kiss
- As to be by the strength of you skin
- Your magnetic movements
- Still capture the minutes I'm in
- But it grieves my heart, love
- To see you tryin' to be a part of
- A world that just don't existv It's all just a dream, babe
- A vacuum, a scheme, babe
- That sucks you into feelin' like this.
- I can see that your head
- Has been twisted and fed
- With worthless foam from the mouth
- I can tell you are torn
- Between stayin' and returnin'
- Back to the South
- You've been fooled into thinking
- That the finishin' end is at hand
- Yet there's no one to beat you
- No one to defeat you
- 'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad
- I've heard you say many times
- That you're better 'n no one
- And no one is better 'n you
- If you really believe that
- You know you have
- Nothing to win and nothing to lose
- From fixtures and forces and friends
- Your sorrow does stem
- That hype you and type you
- Making you feel
- That you gotta be just like them.
- I'd forever talk to you
- But soon my words
- They would turn into a meaningless ring
- For deep in my heart
- I know there is no help I can bring
- Everything passes
- Everything changes
- Just do what you think you should do
- And someday, maybe
- Who knows, baby
- I'll come and be cryin' to you.
- Crimson flames tied through my ears
- Rollin' high and mighty traps
- Pounced with fire on flaming roads
- Using ideas as my maps
- Proud 'neath heated brow
- Ah, but I was so much older then
- I'm younger than that now.
- Half-cracked prejudice leaped forth
- Lies that life is black and white
- Spoke from my skull, I dreamed
- Romantic facts of musketeers
- Foundationed deep, somehow
- Ah, but I was so much older then
- I'm younger than that now.
- Girls' faces formed the forward path
- From phony jealousy
- To memorizing politics
- Of ancient history
- Flung down by corpse evangelists
- Unthought of, thought, somehow
- Ah, but I was so much older then
- I'm younger than that now.
- A self-ordained professor's tongue
- Too serious to fool
- Spouted out that liberty
- Is just equality in school
- As if a wedding vow
- Ah, but I was so much older then
- I'm younger than that now.
- In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
- At the mongrel dogs who teach
- Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
- In the instant that I preach
- My existence led by confusion boats
- Mutiny from stern to bow
- Ah, but I was so much older then
- I'm younger than that now.
- Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
- Too noble to neglect
- Deceived me into thinking
- I had something to protect
- Good and bad, I define these terms
- Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
- Ah, but I was so much older then
- I'm younger than that now.
- 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.
- 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
- And I answer them most mysteriously
- 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 babev 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 your 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 into 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 you 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.
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