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Bringing It All Back Home
by Bob Dylan
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Overall Rating:
3.6856
Avg. Critic Score:
3.8000
Bringing It All Back Home Lyrics
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- Well, I wake up in the morning
- There's frogs inside my socks
- Your mama, she's a-hidin'
- Inside the icebox
- Your daddy walks in wearin'
- A Napoleon Bonarparte mask
- Then you ask why I don't live here
- Honey, do you have to ask ?
- Well, I got to pet your monkey
- I get a face full of claws
- I ask who's in the fireplace
- And you tell me Santa Claus
- The milkman comes in
- He's wearing a derby hat
- And you ask why I don't live here
- Honey, how come you have to ask me that ?
- Well, I asked for something to eat
- I'm hungry as a hog
- So I get brown rice, seaweed
- And a dirty hot dog
- I've got a hole
- Where my stomach disappeared
- Then you ask why I don't live here
- Honey, I gotta think you're really weird.
- Your grandpa's cane
- It turns into a sword
- Your grandma prays to pictures
- That are pasted on a board
- Everything inside my pockets
- Your uncle steals
- And you ask me why I don't live here
- Honey, I can't believe that you're for real.
- Well, there's fist fight in the kitchen
- They're enough to make me cry
- The mailman comes in
- Even he's gotta take a side
- Even the butler
- He's got something to prove
- Then you ask me why I don't live here
- Honey, how come you don't move ?
- I was riding on the Mayflower
- When I thought I spied some land
- I yelled for Captain Arab
- I have yuh understand
- Who came running to the deck
- Said, "Boys, forget the whale
- Look on over yonder
- Cut the engines
- Change the sail
- Haul on the bowline"
- We sang that melody
- Like all tough sailors do
- When they are far away at sea.
- "I think I'll call it America"
- I said as we hit the land
- I took a deep breath
- I fell down, I could not stand
- Captain Arab he started
- Writing up some deeds
- He said, "Let's set up a fort
- And start buying the place with beads"
- Just then this cop comes down the street
- Crazy as a loon
- He throw us all in jail
- For carryin' harpoons.
- Ah me I busted out
- Don't even ask me how
- I went to get some help
- I walked by a Guernsey cow
- Who directed me down
- To the Bowery slums
- Where people carried signs around
- Saying, "Ban the bums"
- I jumped right into line
- Sayin' "I hope that I'm not late"
- When I realized I hadn't eaten
- For five days straight.
- I went into a restaurant
- Lookin' for the cook
- I told him I was the editor
- Of a famous etiquette book
- The waitress he was handsome
- He wore a powder blue cape
- I ordered some suzette, I said
- "Could you please make that crepe"
- Just then the whole kitchen exploded
- From boillin' fat
- Food was flying anywhere
- And I left without my had.
- Now, I didn't mean to be nosy
- But I went into a bank
- To get some bail for Arab
- And all the boys back in the tank
- They asked me for some collateral
- And I pulled down my pants
- They threw me in the alley
- When up comes this girl from France
- Who invited me to her house
- I went, but she had a friend
- Who knocked me out
- And robbed my boots
- And I was on the street again.
- Well, I rapped upon a house
- With the US flag upon display
- I said, "Could you help me out
- I got some friends down the way
- " The man says, "Get out of here
- I'll tear you limp from limb"
- I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too"
- He said, "You're not Him
- Get out of here before I break your bones
- I ain't your pop"
- I decided to have him arrested
- And I went lookin for a cop.
- I ran right outside
- And I hopped inside a cab
- I went out the other door
- This Englishman said, "Fab"
- As he saw me leap a hot dog stand
- And a chariot that stood
- Parked across from a building
- Advertising brotherhood
- I ran right through the front door
- Like a hobo sailor does
- But it was just a funeral parlor
- And the man asked me who I was.
- I repeated that my friends
- Where all in jail, with a sigh
- He gave me his card
- He said, "Call me if they die"
- I shook his hand and said goodbye
- Ran out to the street
- When a bowling ball came down the road
- And knocked me off my feet
- A pay phone was ringing
- It just about blew my mind
- When I picked it up and said hello
- This foot came through the line.
- Well, by this time I was feed up
- At tryin'g to make a stab
- At bringin' back any help
- For my friends and captain Arab
- I decided to flip a coin
- Like either heads or tails
- Would let me know if I should go
- Back to the ship or back to jail
- So I hooked my sailor suit
- And I got a coin to flip
- It came up tails
- It rhymed with sails
- So I made it back to the ship.
- Well, I got back and took
- The parkin' ticket off the mast
- I was ripping it to shreds
- When this coastguard boat went past
- They asked me my name
- And I said, "Captain Kidd"
- They believed me but
- They wanted to know
- What exactly that I did
- I said for the Pope of Eruke
- I was employed
- They let me go right away
- They were very paranoid.
- Well, the last I heard of Arab
- He was stuck on a whale
- That was married to the deputy
- Sheriff of the jail
- But the funniest thing was
- When I was leavin' the bay
- I saw three ships a-sailin'
- There were all heading my way
- I asked the captain what his name was
- And how come he didn't drive a truck
- He said his name was Columbus
- I just said, "Good luck".
- Of war and peace the truth just twists
- Its curfew gull just glides
- Upon four-legged forest clouds
- The cowboy angel rides
- With his candle lit into the sun
- Though its glow is waxed in black
- All except when 'neath the trees of Eden.
- The lamppost stands with folded arms
- Its iron claws attached
- To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail
- Though it shadows metal badge
- All and all can only fall
- With a crashing but meaningless blow
- No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden.
- The savage soldiers sticks his head in sand
- And then complains
- Unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf
- But still remains
- Upon the beach where hound dogs bay
- At ships with tatooed sails
- Heading for the Gates of Eden.
- With a time-rusted compass blade
- Alladin and his lamp
- Sits with Utopian hermit monks
- Side saddle on the Golden Calf
- And on their promises of paradise
- You will not hear a laugh
- All except inside the Gates of Eden.
- Relationships of ownership
- They whisper in the wings
- To those condemned to act accordingly
- And wait for succeeding kings
- And I will try to harmonize with songs
- The lonesome sparrow sings
- There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden.
- The motorcycle black madonna
- Two-wheeled gypsy queen
- And her silver-studded phantom cause
- The gray flannel dwarf to scream
- As he weeps to wicked birds of prey
- Who pick up on his bread crumb sins
- And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.
- The kingdoms of Experience
- In the precious wind they rot
- While paupers change possessions
- Each one wishing for what the other has got
- And the princess and the prince
- Discuss what's real and what is not
- It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden.
- The foreign sun, it squints upon
- A bed that is never mine
- As friends and other strangers
- From their fates try to resign
- Leaving men wholly totally free
- To do anything they wish to do but die
- And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden.
- At dawn my lower comes to me
- And tells me of her dreams
- With no attempts to shovel the glimpse
- Into the ditch of what each one means
- At times I think there are no words
- But these to tell what's true
- And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.
- You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
- But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
- Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
- Crying like a fire in the sun
- Look out the saints are comin' through
- And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
- The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
- Take what you have gathered from coincidence
- The empty handed painter from your streets
- Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
- This sky, too, is folding under you
- And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
- All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
- Your empty handed armies, are all going home
- Your lover who just walked out the door
- Has taken all his blankets from the floor
- The carpet, too, is moving under you
- And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
- Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you
- Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you
- The vagabond who's rapping at your door
- Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
- Strike another match, go start a new
- And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
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