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Modern Times
by Bob Dylan
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Modern Times Lyrics
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- Thunder on the mountain, and there's fires on the moon
- A ruckus in the alley and the sun will be here soon
- Today's the day, where I'm gonna grab my trombone and blow
- Well, there's hot stuff here and it's everywhere I go
- I was thinking about Alicia Keys, couldn't keep from crying
- When she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the line
- I'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be
- I been looking for her even clear through Tennessee
- Feel like my soul is beginning to expand
- Look into my heart and you will sort of understand
- You brought me here, now you're trying to turn me away
- The writing on the wall, come read it, come see what it does say
- Thunder on the mountain, rolling like a drum
- Going to sleep over there, that's where the music is coming from
- I don't need any guide, I already know the way
- Remember this, I'm your servant both night and day
- The pistols are popping and the power is down
- I'd like to try something but I'm so far from town
- The sun keeps shining and the North Wind keeps picking up speed
- Gonna forget about myself for a while, gonna go out and see what others need
- I've been sitting down studying the art of love
- I think it will fit me like a glove
- I want some real good woman to do just what I say
- Everybody got to wonder what's the matter with this cruel world today
- Thunder on the mountain rolling to the ground
- Gonna get up in the morning walk the hard road down
- Some sweet day I'll stand beside my King
- I wouldn't betray your love or any other thing
- Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons of bitches
- I'll recruit my army from the orphanages
- I been to St. Herman's church, said my religious vows
- As I've sucked the milk out of a thousand cows
- I've got the pork chops, she's got the pie
- She ain't no angel and neither am I
- Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked schemes
- I'll say this, I don't give a damn about your dreams
- Thunder on the mountain heavy as can be
- Mean old twister bearing down on me
- All the ladies in Washington scrambling to get out of town
- Looks like something bad is going to happen, better roll your airplane down
- Everybody going and I want to go too
- Don't wanna take a chance with somebody new
- I did all I could, I did it right there and then
- I've already confessed, no need to confess again
- Gonna make a lot of money, gonna go up North
- I'll plant and I'll harvest what the earth brings forth
- The hammer's on the table, the pitchfork's on the shelf
- For the love of God, you ought to take pity on yourself.
- [Thanks to Emily Lathens (emsquee17@yahoo.com) for these lyrics]
- Spirit on the water
- Darkness on the face of the deep
- I keep thinking about you baby
- I can hardly sleep
- I'm traveling by land
- Traveling through the dawn of day
- You're always on my mind
- I can't stay away
- I had forgotten about you
- Then you turned up again
- I always knew
- We were meant to be more than friends
- When you're near
- It's just as plain as it can be
- I'm wild about you, girl
- You ought to be a fool about me
- Can't explain
- The sources of this hidden pain
- You burned your way into my heart
- You got the key to my brain
- I've been trampling through mud
- Praying to the powers above
- I'm sweating blood
- You got a face that begs for love
- Life without you
- Doesn't mean a thing to me
- If I can't have you
- I'll throw my love into the deep blue sea
- Sometimes I wonder
- Why you can't treat me right
- You do good all day
- And then you do wrong all night
- When you're with me
- I'm a thousand times happier than I could ever say
- What does it matter
- What price I pay?
- They brag about your sugar
- Brag about it all over town
- Put some sugar in my bowl
- I feel like laying down
- I'm as pale as a ghost
- Holding a blossom on a stem
- You ever seen a ghost?
- No, but you have heard of them
- I see you there
- I'm blinded by the colors I see
- I'll take good care
- Of what belongs to me
- I hear your name
- Ringing up and down the line
- I'm saying it plain
- These ties are strong enough to bind
- Now your sweet voice
- Calls out from some old familiar shrine
- I've got no choice
- Can't believe these things would ever fade from your mind
- I could live forever
- With you perfectly
- You don't ever
- Have to make a fuss over me
- >From East to West
- Ever since the world began
- I only mean it for the best
- I want to be with you in any way that I can
- I've been in a brawl
- Now I'm feeling the wall
- I'm going away baby
- I won't be back until fall
- High on the hill
- You can carry all my thoughts with you
- You've numbed my will
- This love could tear me in two
- I want be with you in paradise
- And it seems so unfair
- I can't go to paradise no more
- I killed a man back there
- You think I'm over the hill
- You think I'm past my prime
- Let me see what you got
- We can have a whopping good time
- [Thanks to Emily Lathens (emsquee17@yahoo.com) for these lyrics]
- I rolled and I tumbled, I cried the whole night long
- I rolled and I tumbled, I cried the whole night long
- Woke up this morning, I must have bet my money wrong
- I got troubles so hard, I can't stand the strain
- I got troubles so hard, I can't stand the strain
- Some young lazy slut has charmed away my brains
- The landscape is glowing, gleaming in the golden light of day
- The landscape is glowing, gleaming in the golden light of day
- I ain't holding nothing back now, I ain't standing in any body's way
- Well, I did all I know just to keep you off my mind
- Well, I did all I know just to keep you off my mind
- Well, I paid and I paid and my suffering heart is always on the line
- Well, I get up in the dawn and I go down and lay in the shade
- I get up in the dawn and I go down and lay in the shade
- I ain't no body's house boy, I ain't no body's well trained maid
- I'm flat out spent, this woman been driving me to tears
- I'm flat out spent, this woman she been driving me to tears
- This woman so crazy, I swear I ain't going to touch another one for years
- Well, the warm weather's coming and the buds are on the vine
- The warm weather's coming, the buds are on the vine
- Ain't nothing so depressing as trying to satisfy this woman of mine
- I got up this morning, saw the rising sun return
- Well, I got up this morning, see the rising sun return
- Sooner or later, you too shall burn
- The night's filled with shadows The years are filled with early doom
- The night is filled with shadows The years are filled with early doom
- I've been conjuring up all these long dead souls from their crumbling tombs
- Let's forgive each other darling,
- Let's go down to the greenwood glen
- Let's forgive each other darling Let's go down to the greenwood glen
- Let's put our heads together now Let's put all old matters to an end
- Well, I rolled and I tumbled and I cried the whole night long
- Aah, I rolled and I tumbled and I cried the whole night long
- I woke up this morning and I think I must be traveling wrong
- [Thanks to Emily Lathens (emsquee17@yahoo.com) for these lyrics]
- In the still of the night, in the world's ancient light
- Where wisdom grows up in strife
- My bewildering brain, toils in vain
- Through the darkness on the pathways of life
- Each invisible prayer is like a cloud in the air
- Tomorrow keeps turning around
- We live and we die, we know not why
- But I'll be with you when the deal goes down
- We eat and we drink, we feel and we think
- Far down the street we stray
- I laugh and I cry and I'm haunted by
- Things I never meant nor wished to say
- The midnight rain follows the train
- We all wear the same thorny crown
- Soul to soul, our shadows roll
- And I'll be with you when the deal goes down
- Well, the moon gives light and it shines by night
- When I scarcely feel the glow
- We learn to live and then we forgive
- Over the road we're bound to go
- More frailer than the flowers, these precious hours
- That keep us so tightly bound
- You come to my eyes like a vision from the skies
- And I'll be with you when the deal goes down
- Well, I picked up a rose and it poked through my clothes
- I followed the winding stream
- I heard the deafening noise, I felt transient joys
- I know they're not what they seem
- In this earthly domain, full of disappointment and pain
- You'll never see me frown
- I owe my heart to you, and that's saying it's true
- And I'll be with you when the deal goes down
- [Thanks to Emily Lathens (emsquee17@yahoo.com) for these lyrics]
- I don't care what you do, I don't care what you say
- I don't care where you go or how long you stay
- Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry about me any more
- Well you take my money and you turn it out
- You fill me up with nothing but self doubt
- Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry about me any more
- When I was young, driving was my crave
- You drive me so hard, almost to the grave
- Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry about me any more
- I'm so hard pressed, my mind tied up in knots
- I keep recycling the same old thoughts
- Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry about me me any more
- So many good things in life that I've overlooked
- I don't know what to do now, you got me hooked
- Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry about me me any more
- Well, I don't want to brag, but I'm gonna wring your neck
- When all else fails I'll make it a matter of self respect
- Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry about me any more
- You can take your clothes put them em in a sack
- You're going down the road, baby and you can't come back
- Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry about me any more
- I tried to be friendly, I tried to be kind
- I'm gonna drive you from your home, just like I was driven from mine
- Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry about me any more
- Living this way ain't a natural thing to do
- Why was I born to love you?
- Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry about me any more
- [Thanks to Emily Lathens (emsquee17@yahoo.com) for these lyrics]
- There's an evening haze settling over town
- Starlight by the edge of the creek
- The buying power of the proletariat's gone down
- Money's getting shallow and weak
- Well, the place I love best is a sweet memory
- It's a new path that we trod
- They say low wages are a reality
- If we want to compete abroad
- My cruel weapons have been put on the shelf
- Come sit down on my knee
- You are dearer to me than myself
- As you yourself can see
- While I'm listening to the steel rails hum
- Got both eyes tight shut
- Just sitting here trying to keep the hunger from
- Creeping it's way into my gut
- Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind
- Bring me my boots and shoes
- You can hang back or fight your best on the frontline
- Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues
- Well, I'm sailing on back, ready for the long haul
- Tossed by the winds and the seas
- I'll drag them all down to hell and I'll stand them at the wall
- I'll sell them to their enemies
- I'm trying to feed my soul with thought
- Going to sleep off the rest of the day
- Sometimes no one wants what we got
- Sometimes you can't give it away
- Now the place is ringed with countless foes
- Some of them may be deaf and dumb
- No man, no woman knows
- The hour that sorrow will come
- In the dark I hear the night birds call
- I can feel a lover's breath
- I sleep in the kitchen with my feet in the hall
- Sleep is like a temporary death
- Well, they burned my barn, and they stole my horse
- I can't save a dime
- I got to be careful, I don't want to be forced
- Into a life of continual crime
- I can see for myself that the sun is sinking
- How I wish you were here to see
- Tell me now, am I wrong in thinking
- That you have forgotten me?
- Now they worry and they hurry and they fuss and they fret
- They waste your nights and days
- Them I will forget
- But you I'll remember always
- Old memories of you to me have clung
- You've wounded me with your words
- Gonna have to straighten out your tongue
- It's all true, everything you've heard
- In you, my friend, I find no blame
- Wanna look in my eyes, please do
- No one can ever claim
- That I took up arms against you
- All across the peaceful sacred fields
- They will lay you low
- They'll break your horns and slash you with steel
- I say it so it must be so
- Now I'm down on my luck and I'm black and blue
- Gonna give you another chance
- I'm all alone and I'm expecting you
- To lead me off in a cheerful dance
- I got a brand new suit and a brand new wife
- I can live on rice and beans
- Some people never worked a day in their life
- Don't know what work even means.
- [Thanks to Emily Lathens (emsquee17@yahoo.com) for these lyrics]
- Beyond the horizon, behind the sun
- At the end of the rainbow life has only begun
- In the long hours of twilight underneath the stardust above
- Beyond the horizon it is easy to love
- I'm touched with desire
- What I do
- Through flame and through fire
- I'll build my world around you
- Beyond the horizon, in the Springtime or fall
- Love waits forever, for one and for all
- Beyond the horizon, across the divide
- Around about midnight, we'll be on the same side
- Down in the valley the water runs cold
- Beyond the horizon someone prayed for your soul
- My wretched heart is pounding
- I felt an angel's kiss
- My memories are drowning
- In mortal bliss
- Beyond the horizon, at the end of the game
- Every step that you take, I'm walking the same
- Beyond the horizon, the night winds blow
- The theme of a melody from many moons ago
- The bells of St. Mary, how sweetly they chime
- Beyond the horizon I found you just in time
- It's dark and it's dreary
- I've been pleading in vain
- I'm wounded, I'm weary
- My repentance is plain
- Beyond the horizon over the treacherous sea
- I still can't believe that you have set aside your love for me
- Beyond the horizon, underneath crimson skies
- In the soft light of morning I'll follow you with my eyes
- Through countries and kingdoms and temples of stone
- Beyond the horizon right down to the bone
- It's the right time of the season
- Somebody there always cared
- There's always a reason
- Why some one's life has been spared
- Beyond the horizon, the sky is so blue
- I've got more than a lifetime to live loving you
- [Thanks to Emily Lathens (emsquee17@yahoo.com) for these lyrics]
- Lost John's sitting on a railroad track
- Some thing's out of whack
- Blues this morning falling down like hail
- Gonna leave a greasy trail
- Gonna travel the world is what I'm gonna do
- Then come back and see you.
- All I ever do is struggle and strive.
- If I don't do anybody any harm, I might make it back home alive.
- I'm the oldest son of a crazy man,
- I'm in a cowboy band
- Got a pile of sins to pay for and I ain't got time to hide
- I'd walk through a blazing fire, baby, if I knew you was on the other side
- Oh, I miss you, Nettie Moore
- And my happiness is over
- Winter's gone, the river's on the rise
- I loved you then, and ever shall
- But there's no one left here to tell
- The world has gone black before my eyes
- Well, the world of research has gone berserk
- Too much paperwork
- Albert's in the graveyard, Frankie's raising hell
- I'm beginning to believe what the scriptures tell
- I've gone where the Southern crosses The Yellow Dog
- Get away from all these demagogues
- And these bad luck women stick like glue
- It's either one or the other or neither of the two
- She says, "Look out, Daddy, don't want you to tear your pants.
- You could get wrecked in this dance."
- They say whisky will kill you, but I don't think it will
- I'm riding with you to the top of the hill
- Oh, I miss you, Nettie Moore
- And my happiness is over
- Winter's gone, the river's on the rise
- I loved you then, and ever shall
- But there's no one left here to tell
- The world has gone black before my eyes
- Don't know why my baby never looked so good before
- Don't have to wonder no more
- She's been cooking all day, it going to take me all night
- I can't eat all that stuff in a single bite
- The judge's coming in, everybody rise
- Lift up your eyes
- You can do what you please, you don't need my advice
- Before you call me any dirty names, you better think twice
- Getting light outside, the temperature dropped
- I think the rain has stopped
- I'm going make you come to grips with fate
- When I'm through with you, you'll learn to keep your business straight
- Oh, I miss you, Nettie Moore
- And my happiness is over
- Winter's gone, the river's on the rise
- I loved you then, and ever shall
- But there's no one left here to tell
- The world has gone black before my eyes
- The bright spark of the steady lights
- Has dimmed my sights
- When you're around me all my grief gives away
- A life time with you is like some heavenly day
- Everything I've ever known to be right has been proven wrong
- I'll be drifting along
- The woman I'm loving she rules my heart
- No knife could ever cut our love apart.
- Today I'll stand in faith and raise
- The voice of praise
- The sun is strong, I'm standing in the light
- I wish to God that it were night
- The world has gone black before my eyes.
- [Thanks to Emily Lathens (emsquee17@yahoo.com) for these lyrics]
- If it keep on raining, the levee's gonna break
- If it keep on raining, the levee's gonna break
- Everybody saying this is a day only the Lord could make
- Well, I worked on the levee, mama, both night and day
- I worked on the levee, mama, both night and day
- I got to the river and I threw my clothes away
- I paid my time and now I'm good as new,
- I paid my time and now I'm as good as new.
- They can't take me back unless I want them to
- If it keep on raining, the levee's gonna break
- If it keep on raining, the levee's gonna break
- Some of these people gonna strip you of all they can take
- I can't stop here I ain't ready to unload
- I can't stop here I ain't ready to unload
- Riches and salvation can be waiting behind the next bend in the road
- I picked you up from the gutter and this is the thanks I get
- I picked you up from the gutter and this is the thanks I get
- You say you want me to quit you, I told you, 'No, not just yet.'
- Well, I look in your eyes, I see nobody other than me
- I look in your eyes, I see nobody other than me
- I see all that I am and all I hope to be
- If it keep on raining, the levee's gonna break
- If it keep on raining, the levee's gonna break
- Some of these people don't know which road to take
- When I'm with you, I forget I was ever blue
- When I'm with you, I forget I was ever blue
- Without you there's no meaning in anything I do
- Some people on the road carrying everything that they own
- Some people on the road carrying everything they own
- Some people got barely enough skin to cover their bones
- Put on your cat clothes, mama, put on your evening dress
- Put on your cat clothes, mama, put on your evening dress
- Few more years of hard work, then there'll be a 1,000 years of happiness
- If it keep on raining, the levee gonna break
- If it keep on raining, the levee's gonna break
- I tried to get you to love me, but I won't repeat that mistake
- If it keep on raining, the levee's gonna break
- If it keep on raining, the levee's gonna break
- Plenty of cheap stuff out there and still around that you take
- I woke up this morning, butter and eggs in my bed
- I woke up this morning, butter and eggs in my bed
- I ain't got enough room to even raise my head.
- Come back, baby, say we never more will part
- Come back, baby, say we never more will part
- Don't be a stranger with no brain or heart
- If it keep on raining, the levee's gonna break.
- [Thanks to Emily Lathens (emsquee17@yahoo.com) for these lyrics]
- As I walked out tonight in the mystic garden
- The wounded flowers were dangling from the vine
- I was passing by yon cool crystal fountain
- Someone hit me from behind
- Ain't talking, just walking
- Through this weary world of woe
- Heart burning, still yearning
- No one on earth would ever know
- They say prayer has the power to heal
- So pray for me, mother
- In the human heart an evil spirit can dwell
- I am trying to love my neighbor and do good unto others
- But oh, mother, things ain't going well
- Ain't talking, just walking
- I'll burn that bridge before you can cross
- Heart burning, still yearning
- There'll be no mercy for you once you've lost
- Now I'm all worn down by weeping
- My eyes are filled with tears, my lips are dry
- If I catch my opponents ever sleeping
- I'll just slaughter them where they lie
- Ain't talking, just walking
- Through the world mysterious and vague
- Heart burning, still yearning
- Walking through the cities of the plague.
- Well, the whole world is filled with speculation
- The whole wide world which people say is round
- They will tear your mind away from contemplation
- They will jump on your misfortune when you're down
- Ain't talking, just walking
- Eating hog eyed grease in a hog eyed town.
- Heart burning, still yearning
- Some day you'll be glad to have me around.
- They will crush you with wealth and power
- Every waking moment you could crack
- I'll make the most of one last extra hour
- I'll revenge my father's death then I'll step back
- Ain't talking, just walking
- Hand me down my walking cane.
- Heart burning, still yearning
- Got to get you out of my miserable brain.
- All my loyal and my much-loved companions
- They approve of me and share my code
- I practice a faith that's been long abandoned
- Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road
- Ain't talking, just walking
- My mule is sick, my horse is blind.
- Heart burning, still yearning
- Thinking about that girl I left behind.
- Well, it's bright in the heavens and the wheels are flying
- Fame and honor never seem to fade
- The fire gone out but the light is never dying
- Who says I can't get heavenly aid?
- Ain't talking, just walking
- Carrying a dead man's shield
- Heart burning, still yearning
- Walking with an ache in my heel
- The suffering is unending
- Every nook and cranny has its tears
- I'm not playing, I'm not pretending
- I'm not nursing any superfluous fears
- Ain't talking, just walking
- Walking ever since the other night.
- Heart burning, still yearning
- Walking until I'm clean out of sight.
- As I walked out in the mystic garden
- On a hot summer day, a hot summer lawn
- Excuse me, ma'am, I beg your pardon
- There's no one here, the gardener is gone
- Ain't talking, just walking
- Up the road, around the bend.
- Heart burning, still yearning
- In the last outback at the world's end.
- [Thanks to Emily Lathens (emsquee17@yahoo.com) for these lyrics]
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