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Time Out of Mind
by Bob Dylan
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3.4767
Time Out of Mind Lyrics
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- I'm walkin' through streets that are dead
- Walkin', walkin' with you in my head
- My feet are so tired
- My brain is so wired
- And the clouds are weepin'.
- Did I hear someone tell a lie?
- Did I hear someone's distant cry?
- I spoke like a child
- You destroyed me with a smile
- While I was sleepin'.
- I'm sick of love that I'm in the thick of it
- This kind of love, I'm so sick of it.
- I see, I see lovers in the meadow
- I see, I see silhouettes in the window
- I'll watch them 'til they're gone
- And they leave me hangin' on
- To a shadow.
- I'm sick of love, I hear the clock tick
- This kind of love, ah, I'm love sick.
- Sometimes the silence can be like thunder
- Sometimes I wanna take to the road and plunder
- Could you ever be true
- I think of you
- And I wonder.
- I'm sick of love, I wish I'd never met you
- I'm sick of love, I'm tryin' to forget you.
- Just don't know what to do
- I'd give anything to
- Be with you.
- Gonna walk down that dirt road
- 'Til someone lets me ride
- Gonna walk down that dirt road
- 'Til someone lets me ride
- If I can't find my baby
- I'm gonna run away and hide.
- Well, I've been pacin' 'round the room
- Hopin' maybe she'd come back
- Pacin' 'round the room
- Hopin' maybe she'd come back
- Well, I've been praying for salvation
- Layin' 'round in a one-room country shack.
- Gonna walk down that dirt road
- Until my eyes begin to bleed
- Gonna walk down that dirt road
- Until my eyes begin to bleed
- 'Til there's nothing left to see
- 'Til the chains have been shattered and I've been freed.
- But I've been at my shadow
- I been watchin' the colors up above
- Lookin' at my shadow
- Watchin' the colors up above
- Rolling through the rain and hail
- Lookin' for the sunny side of love.
- Gonna walk on that dirt road
- 'Til everything becomes the same
- Gonna walk down that dirt road
- 'Til everything becomes the same
- I'll keep on walkin' 'til I hear her holler at my name.
- I'm a-walkin' through the summer nights
- The jukebox playing low
- Yesterday everything was goin' too fast
- Today it's moving too slow.
- I got no place left to turn
- I got nothing left to burn
- Don't know if I saw you
- If I would kiss you or kill you
- It probably wouldn't matter to you anyhow
- You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
- I got nothing to go back to now.
- The light in this place is so bad
- Makin' me sick in the head
- All the laughter is just makin' me sad
- The stars have turned cherry red.
- I'm strummin' on my gay guitar
- Smokin' a cheap cigar
- The ghost of our old love has not gone away
- Don't look it like it will any time soon
- You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
- Under the midnight moon.
- Maybe they'll get me, and maybe they won't
- But not tonight and it won't be here
- There are things I could say but I don't
- I know the mercy of God must be near.
- I've been ridin' the midnight train
- Got ice water in my vein.
- I would be crazy if I took you back
- It would go up against every rule
- You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
- Sufferin' like a fool.
- When the last rays of daylight go down
- Buddy you're older or more
- I can hear the church bells ringin' in the yard
- I wonder who they're ringin' for?
- I know I can't win
- But my heart just won't give in.
- Last night I danced with a stranger
- But she just reminded me you were the one.
- You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
- In the dark land of the sun.
- I'll eat when I'm hungry
- Drink when I'm dry
- And live my life on the square
- And even if the flesh falls off of my face
- I know someone will be there to care.
- It always meaned so much, even the softest touch.
- I see nothin' to be gained by any explanation
- There's no words that need to be said
- You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
- Blues wrapped around my head.
- You took a part of me that I really miss
- I keep askin' myself how long it can go on like this
- You told yourself a lie - that's alright, mama, I told myself one too
- I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
- You took the silver, you took the gold
- You left me standin' out in the cold
- People ask about you, I didn't tell them everything I knew
- Well, I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
- I'm driftin' in and out of dreamless sleep
- Throwin' all my memories in a ditch so deep
- Did so many things I never did intend to do
- Well, I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
- I need your love so bad, turn your lamp down low
- I need every bit of it for the places that I go
- Sometimes I wonder 'til it's just what it's all coming to
- Well, I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
- Well, I don't dare close my eyes and I don't dare wink
- Maybe in the next life I'll be able to hear myself think
- Feel like talkin' to somebody but I just don't know who
- Well, I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
- Yes, the last thing you said before ya hit the street
- Gonna find me a janitor to sweep me off my feet
- I said, "That's all right, mamma, you, you do what you gotta do"
- Well, I've tried to get closer, I'm still a million miles from you.
- Rock me, pretty baby, rock me all at once
- Rock me for a little while, rock me for a couple of months
- And I'll rock you too
- I'm tryin' to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
- Well, there's voices in the night tryin' to be heard
- I'm sittin' here listening to every mind-pollutin' word
- I know plenty of people put me up for a day or two
- Yes, I'm tryin' to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
- The air is getting hotter, there's a rumblin' in the skies
- I've been wading through the high muddy water
- With the heat risin' in my eyes
- Every day your memory grows dimmer
- It dosn't haunt me like it did before
- I've been walking through the mirror to nowhere
- Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
- When I was in Missouri they would not let me be
- I had to leave there in a hurry
- I only saw what they let me see
- You broke a heart that loved you
- Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore
- I've been walkin' that lonesome valley
- Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
- People on the platforms, waitin' for the trains
- I can hear their hearts a-beatin'
- Like pendulums swinging on chains
- When you think that you've lost everything
- You find out you can always lose a little more
- I'm just goin' down the road feeling bad
- Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
- I'm goin' down the river, down to New Orleans
- They tell me everything is gonna be all right
- But I don't know what all right even means
- I was ridin' in a buggy with Miss Mary Jane
- Miss Mary Jane got a house in Baltimore
- I've been all around the world, boys
- And I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
- Gonna sleep down in the parlor and relive my dreams
- I close my eyes and I wonder
- If everything is as hollow as it seems
- Some trains don't pull no gamblers
- No midnight ramblers, like they did before
- I've been to sugar town, I shook the sugar down
- Now I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
- Well my nerves are exploding and my body's tense
- I feel like the whole world gonna end up against the fence
- I've been hit too hard, seen too much
- Nothing can heal me now but your touch
- I just don't know what I'm gonna do
- I was all right 'til I fell in love with you.
- Well, my house is on fire, burnin' to the sky
- Well, I thought it would rain but the clouds passed by
- And I feel like I'm comin' to the end of my way
- I know God is my shield and he won't lead me astray
- Still, I don't know what I'm gonna do
- I was all right 'til I fell in love with you.
- Boys in the street beginnin' to play
- Girls like birds, flyin' away
- When I'm gone you will remember my name
- I'm gonna win my way to wealth and fame
- Yet I just don't know what I'm gonna do
- I was all right 'til I fell in love with you.
- Well, junk's pilin' up, takin' up space
- My eyes feel like they've fallen off my face
- Sweat pourin' down, I'm starin' at the floor
- I'm thinkin' about that girl who won't be back no more
- I just don't know what to do
- I was all right 'til I fell in love with you.
- Well, I'm tired of talkin', I'm tired of tryin' to explain
- My attemps to please ya, they were all in vain
- Tomorrow night before the sun goes down
- If I'm still among the livin' I'll be Dixie bound
- Still, I just don't know what I'm gonna do
- I was all right, 'til I fell in love with you.
- Shadows are fallin' and I've been here all day
- It's too hot to sleep and time is runnin' away
- Feel like my soul has turned into steel
- I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
- There's not even room enough to be anywhere
- It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.
- Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
- Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain
- She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
- She put down in writin' what was in her mind
- I just don't see why I should even care
- It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.
- Well, I've been to London and I been to gay Paris
- I've followed the river and I got to the sea
- I've been down on the bottom of the world full of lies
- I ain't lookin' for nothin' in anyone's eyes
- Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear
- It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.
- I was born here and I'll die here against my will
- I know it looks like I'm movin' but I'm standin' still
- Every nerve in my body is so naked and numb
- I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
- Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer
- It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.
- I'm beginnin' to hear voices and there's no one around
- I'm all used up and the fields have turned brown
- I went to church on Sunday as she passed by
- And my love for her has taken such a long time to die
- Well, I'm waist deep, waist deep in the mist
- It's almost like, almost like, I don't exist
- I'm twenty miles out of town, Cold Irons bound.
- Well, the walls of pride are high and wide
- Can't see over to the other side
- It's such a sad thing to see beauty decay
- It's sadder still to feel your heart turn away
- One look at you and I'm out of control
- Like the universe has swallowed me whole
- I'm twenty miles out of town and Cold Irons bound.
- There's too many people, too many to recall
- I thought some of 'em were friends of mine, I was wrong about 'em all
- Well, the road is rocky and the hillside mud
- Up over my head, nothing but clouds of blood
- I found my world, found my world in you
- But your love just hasn't proved true
- I'm twenty miles out of town and Cold Irons bound
- Twenty miles out of town, Cold Irons bound.
- Well the winds in Chicago have torn me to shreds
- Reality has always had too many heads
- Some things last longer than you think they will
- Some kind of things you can never kill
- Though it's you, and you only, I'm singin' about
- But you can't see in and it's hard looking out
- I'm twenty miles out of town and Cold Irons bound.
- Well, the fat's in the fire and the water's in the tank
- Well, the whiskey's in the jar and the money's in the bank
- I tried to love and protect you because I care
- I'm gonna remember forever the joy we've shared
- Looking at you and I'm on my bended knee
- You've no idea what you did to me
- I'm twenty miles out of town and Cold Irons bound
- Twenty miles out of town and Cold Irons bound.
- When the rain is blowin' in your face
- And the whole world is on your case
- I could offer you a warm embrace
- To make you feel my love.
- When the evening shadows and the stars appear
- And there is no one there to dry your tears
- I could hold you for a million years
- To make you feel my love.
- I know you haven't made your mind up yet
- But I would never do you wrong
- I've known it from the moment that we met
- No doubt in my mind where you belong.
- I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue
- I'd go crawlin' down the avenue
- No, there's nothin' that I wouldn't do
- To make you feel my love.
- Though storms are raging on the rollin' sea
- And on the highway of regrets
- Though winds of change are throwing wild and free
- You ain't seen nothin' like me yet.
- I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
- Nothing that I wouldn't do
- Go to the ends of the Earth for you
- To make you feel my love.
- I can't wait, wait for you to change your mind
- It's late, I'm tryin' to walk the line
- Well, it's way past midnight
- And there's some people all around
- Some on their way up, some on their way down
- The air burns and I'm tryin' to think straight
- An' I don't know how much longer I can wait.
- I'm your man, I'm tryin' to recover the sweet love that we knew
- You understand that my heart can't go on beatin' without you
- Well your loveliness has wounded me
- I'm reelin' from the blow
- I wish I knew what it was that keeps me lovin' you so
- I'm breathin' hard, standin' at the gate
- Ah, but I don't know how much longer I can wait.
- Skies are gray
- I'm lookin' for anything that will bring a happy glow
- Night or day, it doesn't matter where I go anymore, I just go
- If I ever saw you comin' I don't know what I might do
- I'd like to think I could control myself but it isn't true
- That's how it is when things disintegrate
- And I don't know how much longer I can wait.
- I'm doomed to love you
- I've been rollin' through stormy weather
- I'm thinkin' of you
- And all the places we could roam together.
- It's mighty funny
- The end of time has just begun
- Oh, honey, after all these years you're still the one
- Well, I'm strollin' through the lonely graveyard of my mind
- I left my life with you somewhere back there along the line
- I thought somehow that I would be spared this fate
- I don't know how much longer I can wait.
- Well, my heart's in the highlands, gentle and fair
- Honey suckle bloomin' in the wildwood air
- Bluebells blazin' where the Aberdeen waters flow
- Well, my heart's in the highlands, I'm gonna go there when
- I feel good enough to go.
- Windows were shakin' all night in my dreams
- Everything was exactly the way that it seems
- Woke up this mornin' and I looked at the same old page
- Same old rat race, life in the same old cage.
- I don't want nothin' from anyone, ain't that much to take
- Wouldn't know the difference between a real blonde and a fake
- Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery
- I wish someone would come and push back the clock for me.
- Well, my heart's in the highlands, wherever I roam
- That's where I'll be when I get called home
- The wind it whispers to the buck-eyed trees of rhyme
- Well, my heart's in the highlands, I can only get there one step at a time.
- I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound
- Someone's always yellin', "Turn him down"
- Feel like I'm driftin', driftin' from scene to scene
- I'm wondering what in the devil could it all possibly mean.
- Insanity is smashin' up against my soul
- You could say I was on anything but a roll
- If I had a conscience, well I just might blow my top
- What would I do with it anyway, maybe take it to the pawn shop.
- My heart's in the highlands at the break of dawn
- By the beautiful lake of the black swan
- Big white clouds like chariots that swing down low
- Well, my heart's in the highlands, only place left to go.
- I'm in Boston town, in some restaurant
- I got no idea what I want
- Or maybe I do but, I'm just really not sure
- Waitress comes over, nobody in the place but me and her.
- Well, it must be a holiday, there's nobody around
- She studies me closely as I sit down
- She got a pretty face, with long white shiny legs
- I said, "Tell me what I want," she say, "You probably want hard boiled eggs."
- I say, "That's right, bring me some."
- She says, "We ain't got any, you picked the wrong time to come."
- Then she says, "I know you're an artist, draw a picture of me."
- I said, "I would if I could but I don't do sketches from memory."
- Well, she then, she says, "I'm right here in front of you, or
- haven't you looked?"
- I say, "All right, I know but I don't have my drawing book."
- She gives me a napkin, she say, "You can do it on that."
- I say, "Yes I could but I don't know where my pencil is at."
- She pulls one out from behind her ear
- She says, "All right now go ahead, draw me, I'm stayin' right here."
- I make a few lines and I show it for her to see
- Well, she takes her napkin and throws it back and says, "That
- don't look a thing like me."
- I said, "Oh, kind Miss, it most certainly does."
- She say, "You must be jokin'," I say, "I wish I was."
- Then she says, "You don't read women authors do ya?" at least
- that's what I think I hear her say
- Well, I said, "How would you know and what would it matter anyway?"
- Well she says, "You just don't seem like you do." I said,
- She says "Which ones have you read then?" I say, "I've read
- Erica Jong."
- She goes away for a minute and I slide out, out of my chair
- I step outside back to the busy street but nobody is goin' anywhere.
- Well, my heart's in the highlands with the horses and hounds
- Way up in the border country far from the towns
- With the twang of the arrow and the snap of the bow
- My heart's in the highlands, I can't see any other way to go.
- Every day is the same thing, out the door
- Feel further away than ever before
- Some things in life it just gets too late to learn
- Well, I'm lost somewhere, I must have made a few bad turns.
- I see people in the park forgettin' their troubles and woes
- They're drinkin' and dancin', wearin' bright colored clothes
- All the young men, with the young women lookin' so good
- Well, I'd trade places with any of 'em in a minute, if I could.
- I'm crossing the street to get away from a mangy dog
- Talkin' to myself in a monologue
- I think what I need might be a full length leather coat
- Somebody just asked me if I've registered to vote.
- The sun is beginnin' to shine on me
- But it's not like the sun that used to be
- The party's over and there's less and less to say
- I got new eyes, everything looks far away.
- Well, my heart's in the highlands at the break of day
- Over the hills and far away
- There's a way to get there and I'll figure it out somehow
- Well, I'm already there in my mind, and that's good enough for now.
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