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Post by beth on Feb 26, 2013 18:18:06 GMT -5
Tangled Up In Blue
Early one morning the sun was shining I was laying in bed Wond'ring if she'd changed it all If her hair was still red Her folks they said our lives together Sure was gonna be rough They never did like Mama's homemade dress Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough And I was standing on the side of the road Rain falling on my shoes Heading out for the East Coast Lord knows I've paid some dues getting through Tangled up in blue. She was married when we first met Soon to be divorced I helped her out of a jam I guess But I used a little too much force We drove that car as far as we could Abandoned it out West Split it up on a dark sad night Both agreeing it was best She turned around to look at me As I was walking away I heard her say over my shoulder "We'll meet again someday on the avenue" Tangled up in blue. I had a job in the great north woods Working as a cook for a spell But I never did like it all that much And one day the ax just fell So I drifted down to New Orleans Where I happened to be employed Working for a while on a fishing boat Right outside of Delacroix But all the while I was alone The past was close behind I seen a lot of women But she never escaped my mind and I just grew Tangled up in blue. She was working in a topless place And I stopped in for a beer I just kept looking at her side of her face In the spotlight so clear And later on as the crowd thinned out I was just about to do the same She was standing there in back of my chair Said to me "Don't I know your name?" I muttered something underneath my breath She studied the lines on my face I must admit I felt a little uneasy When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe Tangled up in blue. She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe "I thought you'd never say hello" she said "You look like the silent type" Then she opened up a book of poems And handed it to me Written by an Italian poet From the fifteenth century And every one of them words rang true And glowed like burning coal Pouring off of every page Like it was written in my soul from me to you Tangled up in blue I lived with them on Montague Street In a basement down the stairs There was music in the café at night And revolution in the air Then he started into dealing with slaves And something inside of him died She had to sell everything she owned And froze up inside And when finally the bottom fell out I became withdrawn The only thing I knew how to do Was to keep on keeping on like a bird that flew Tangled up in blue. So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives Don't know how it all got started I don't what they're doing with their lives But me I'm still on the road Heading for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in Blue.
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Post by beth on May 14, 2013 11:07:18 GMT -5
When the Night Comes Falling From the Sky
Look out across the fields, see me returning Smoke is in your eye, you draw a smile From the fireplace where my letters to you are burning You've had time to think about it for a while. Well, I've walked two hundred miles, look me over It's the end of the chase and the moon is high It wont matter who loves who You'll love me or I'll love you When the night comes falling When the night comes falling When the night comes falling from the sky. I can see through your walls and I know you're hurting Sorrow covers you up like a cape Only yesterday I know that you've been flirting With disaster you somehow managed to escape. I can't provide for you no easy answers Who are you that I should have to lie ? You'll know all about it, love It'll fit you like a glove When the night comes falling When the night comes falling When the night comes falling from the sky. I can hear your trembling heart beat like a river You must have been protecting someone last time I called I never asked you for nothing that you couldn't deliver I've never asked you to set yourself up for a fall. I saw thousands who could have overcome the darkness For the love of a lousy buck, I've watched them die Stick around, baby, we're not through Don't look for me, I'll see you When the night comes falling When the night comes falling When the night comes falling from the sky. In your teardrops, I can see my own reflection It was on the northern border of Texas where I crossed the line I don't want to be a fool starving for affection I don't want to drown in someone else's wine. For all eternity I think I will remember That icy wind that's howling in your eye You will seek me and you'll find me In the wasteland of your mind When the night comes falling When the night comes falling When the night comes falling from the sky. Well, I sent you my feelings in a letter When you were gambling for support This time tomorrow I'll know you better When my memory is not so short. This time I'm asking for freedom Freedom from a world which you deny And you'll give it to me now I'll take it anyhow When the night comes falling When the night comes falling When the night comes falling from the sky.
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Post by Dex on May 22, 2013 15:19:56 GMT -5
A Simple Twist of Fate
They sat together in the park As the evening sky grew dark She looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to his bones It was then he felt alone and wished that he'd gone straight And watched out for a simple twist of fate.
They walked alone by the old canal A little confused I remember well And stopped into a strange hotel with a neon burning bright He felt the heat of the night hit him like a freight train Moving with a simple twist of fate.
A saxophone someplace far off played As she was walking on by the arcade As the light bust through a-beat-up shade where he was waking up She dropped a coin into the cup of a blind man at the gate And forgot about a simple twist of fate.
He woke up the room was bare He didn't see her anywhere He told himself he didn't care pushed the window open wide Felt an emptiness inside to which he just could not relate Brought on by a simple twist of fate.
He hears the ticking of the clocks And walks along with a parrot that talks Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailers all come in Maybe she'll pick him out again how long must he wait One more time for a simple twist of fate.
People tell me it's a sin To know and feel too much within I still believe she was my twin but I lost the ring She was born in spring but I was born too late Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
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Post by beth on May 29, 2015 7:58:16 GMT -5
Farm Aid, 1992? Dylan set.
FYI - The lady singing with Dylan is probably his mother-in-law, Tom Petty's on stage with him and one of the others is BD's son.
I'll remember you When I've forgotten all the rest You to me were true You to me were the best When there is no more You cut to the core Quicker than anyone I knew When I'm all alone In the great unknown I'll remember you.
I'll remember you At the end of the trail I had so much left to do I had so little time to fail There's some people that You don't forget Even though you've only seen 'em One time or two When the roses fade And I'm in the shade I'll remember you.
Didn't I, didn't I try to love you? Didn't I, didn't I try to care? Didn't I sleep, didn't I weep beside you With the wind blowing in your hair.
I'll remember you When the wind blows through the piny wood It was you who came right through It was you who understood Though I'd never say That I done it the way That you'd have liked me to In the end My dear sweet friend I'll remember you. Songwriters: Bob Dylan I'll Remember You lyrics © Herb Montei Music
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