歌词

　　Tangled Up In Blue
　　
　　
　　Early one mornin' the sun was shinin',
　　I was layin' in bed
　　Wond'rin' if she'd changed at 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 standin' on the side of the road
　　Rain fallin' on my shoes
　　Heading out for the east coast
　　Lord knows i've paid some dues gettin' 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 up on a dark sad night
　　Both agreeing it was best.
　　She turned around to look at me
　　As i was walkin' 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
　　Workin' for a while on a fishin' 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 workin' in a topless place
　　And i stopped in for a beer,
　　I just kept lookin' at the side of her face
　　In the spotlight so clear.
　　And later on as the crowd thinned out
　　I's 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 somethin' 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 thirteenth century.
　　And every one of them words rang true
　　And glowed like burnin' coal
　　Pourin' 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 cafes 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 keepin' on like a bird that flew,
　　Tangled up in blue.
　　
　　So now i'm goin' back again,
　　I got to get to 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 know what they're doin' with their lives.
　　But me, i'm still on the road
　　Headin' 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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　　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.
　　'twas then he felt alone and wished that he'd gone straight
　　And watched out for a simple twist of fate.
　　
　　They walked along by the old canal
　　A little confused, i remember well
　　And stopped into a strange hotel with a neon burnin' 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 walkin' by the arcade.
　　As the light bust through a beat-up shade where he was wakin'
　　
　　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
　　Once more 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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　　You're A Big Girl Now
　　
　　
　　Our conversation was short and sweet
　　It nearly swept me off-a my feet.
　　And i'm back in the rain, oh, oh,
　　And you are on dry land.
　　You made it there somehow
　　You're a big girl now.
　　
　　Bird on the horizon, sittin' on a fence,
　　He's singin' his song for me at his own expense.
　　And i'm just like that bird, oh, oh,
　　Singin' just for you.
　　I hope that you can hear,
　　Hear me singin' through these tears.
　　
　　Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast
　　Oh, but what a shame if all we've shared can't last.
　　I can change, i swear, oh, oh,
　　See what you can do.
　　I can make it through,
　　You can make it too.
　　
　　Love is so simple, to quote a phrase,
　　You've known it all the time, i'm learnin' it these days.
　　Oh, i know where i can find you, oh, oh,
　　In somebody's room.
　　It's a price i have to pay
　　You're a big girl all the way.
　　
　　A change in the weather is known to be extreme
　　But what's the sense of changing horses in midstream?
　　I'm going out of my mind, oh, oh,
　　With a pain that stops and starts
　　Like a corkscrew to my heart
　　Ever since we've been apart.
　　
　　
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　　Idiot Wind
　　
　　
　　Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the
　　
　　press
　　Whoever it is i wish they'd cut it out but when they will i
　　
　　can only guess.
　　They say i shot a man named gray and took his wife to italy,
　　She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to
　　
　　me.
　　I can't help it if i'm lucky.
　　
　　People see me all the time and they just can't remember how
　　
　　to act
　　Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted
　　
　　facts.
　　Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,
　　I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me
　　
　　better than that
　　Sweet lady.
　　
　　Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
　　Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
　　Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
　　You're an idiot, babe.
　　It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
　　
　　I ran into the fortune-teller, who said beware of lightning
　　
　　that might strike
　　I haven't known peace and quiet for so long i can't remember
　　
　　what it's like.
　　There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a
　　
　　boxcar door,
　　You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done, in the
　　
　　final end he won the wars
　　After losin' every battle.
　　
　　I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things
　　
　　sometimes are
　　Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are
　　
　　makin' me see stars.
　　You hurt the ones that i love best and cover up the truth
　　
　　with lies.
　　One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your
　　
　　eyes,
　　Blood on your saddle.
　　
　　Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
　　Blowing through the curtains in your room.
　　Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
　　You're an idiot, babe.
　　It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
　　
　　It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke
　　
　　us apart
　　You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to
　　
　　change my heart.
　　Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact
　　
　　the wheels have stopped,
　　What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when
　　
　　you reach the top
　　You're on the bottom.
　　
　　I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made
　　
　　you blind
　　I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed,
　　
　　your eyes
　　Don't look into mine.
　　The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced
　　
　　while the building
　　Burned.
　　I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress
　　
　　trees, while the springtime
　　Turned slowly into autumn.
　　
　　Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
　　From the grand coulee dam to the capitol.
　　Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
　　You're an idiot, babe.
　　It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
　　
　　I can't feel you anymore, i can't even touch the books you've
　　
　　read
　　Every time i crawl past your door, i been wishin' i was
　　
　　somebody else instead.
　　Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
　　I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory
　　And all your ragin' glory.
　　
　　I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now i'm
　　
　　finally free,
　　I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which
　　
　　separated you from me.
　　You'll never know the hurt i suffered nor the pain i rise
　　
　　above,
　　And i'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your
　　
　　kind of love,
　　And it makes me feel so sorry.
　　
　　Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
　　Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
　　Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
　　We're idiots, babe.
　　It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
　　
　　
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　　You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
　　
　　
　　I've seen love go by my door
　　It's never been this close before
　　Never been so easy or so slow.
　　Been shooting in the dark too long
　　When somethin's not right it's wrong
　　Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.
　　
　　Dragon clouds so high above
　　I've only known careless love,
　　It's always hit me from below.
　　This time around it's more correct
　　Right on target, so direct,
　　Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.
　　
　　Purple clover, queen anne lace,
　　Crimson hair across your face,
　　You could make me cry if you don't know.
　　Can't remember what i was thinkin' of
　　You might be spoilin' me too much, love,
　　Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.
　　
　　Flowers on the hillside, bloomin' crazy,
　　Crickets talkin' back and forth in rhyme,
　　Blue river runnin' slow and lazy,
　　I could stay with you forever
　　And never realize the time.
　　
　　Situations have ended sad,
　　Relationships have all been bad.
　　Mine've been like verlaine's and rimbaud.
　　But there's no way i can compare
　　All those scenes to this affair,
　　Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.
　　
　　Yer gonna make me wonder what i'm doin',
　　Stayin' far behind without you.
　　Yer gonna make me wonder what i'm sayin',
　　Yer gonna make me give myself a good talkin' to.
　　
　　I'll look for you in old honolulu,
　　San francisco, ashtabula,
　　Yer gonna have to leave me now, i know.
　　But i'll see you in the sky above,
　　In the tall grass, in the ones i love,
　　Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.
　　
　　
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　　Meet Me In The Morning
　　
　　
　　Meet me in the morning, 56th and wabasha
　　Meet me in the morning, 56th and wabasha
　　Honey, we could be in kansas
　　By time the snow begins to thaw.
　　
　　They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn
　　They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn
　　But you wouldn't know it by me
　　Every day's been darkness since you been gone.
　　
　　Little rooster crowin', there must be something on his mind
　　Little rooster crowin', there must be something on his mind
　　Well, i feel just like that rooster
　　Honey, ya treat me so unkind.
　　
　　The birds are flyin' low babe, honey i feel so exposed
　　Well, the birds are flyin' low babe, honey i feel so exposed
　　Well now, i ain't got any matches
　　And the station doors are closed.
　　
　　Well, i struggled through barbed wire, felt the hail fall
　　
　　from above
　　Well, i struggled through barbed wire, felt the hail fall
　　
　　from above
　　Well, you know i even outran the hound dogs
　　Honey, you know i've earned your love.
　　
　　Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship
　　Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship
　　Ain't that just like my heart, babe
　　When you kissed my lips?
　　
　　
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　　Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts
　　
　　
　　The festival was over, the boys were all plannin' for a fall,
　　The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin' in the wall.
　　The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' wheel shut down,
　　Anyone with any sense had already left town.
　　He was standin' in the doorway lookin' like the jack of
　　
　　hearts.
　　
　　He moved across the mirrored room, "set it up for everyone,"
　　
　　he said,
　　Then everyone commenced to do what they were doin' before he
　　
　　turned their
　　Heads. then he walked up to a stranger and he asked him with
　　
　　a grin,
　　"could you kindly tell me, friend, what time the show
　　
　　begins?"
　　Then he moved into the corner, face down like the jack of
　　
　　hearts.
　　
　　Backstage the girls were playin' five-card stud by the
　　
　　stairs,
　　Lily had two queens, she was hopin' for a third to match her
　　
　　pair.
　　Outside the streets were fillin' up, the window was open
　　
　　wide,
　　A gentle breeze was blowin', you could feel it from inside.
　　Lily called another bet and drew up the jack of hearts.
　　
　　Big jim was no one's fool, he owned the town's only diamond
　　
　　mine,
　　He made his usual entrance lookin' so dandy and so fine.
　　With his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place,
　　He took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste.
　　But his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the jack
　　
　　of hearts.
　　
　　Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into town,
　　She slipped in through the side door lookin' like a queen
　　
　　without a crown.
　　She fluttered her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear,
　　"sorry, darlin', that i'm late," but he didn't seem to hear.
　　He was starin' into space over at the jack of hearts.
　　
　　"i know i've seen that face before," big jim was thinkin' to
　　
　　himself,
　　"maybe down in mexico or a picture up on somebody's shelf."
　　But then the crowd began to stamp their feet and the house
　　
　　lights did dim
　　And in the darkness of the room there was only jim and him,
　　Starin' at the butterfly who just drew the jack of hearts.
　　
　　Lily was a princess, she was fair-skinned and precious as a
　　
　　child,
　　She did whatever she had to do, she had that certain flash
　　
　　every time she smiled.
　　She'd come away from a broken home, had lots of strange
　　
　　affairs
　　With men in every walk of life which took her everywhere.
　　But she'd never met anyone quite like the jack of hearts.
　　
　　The hangin' judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and
　　
　　dined,
　　The drillin' in the wall kept up but no one seemed to pay it
　　
　　any mind.
　　It was known all around that lily had jim's ring
　　And nothing would ever come between lily and the king.
　　No, nothin' ever would except maybe the jack of hearts.
　　
　　Rosemary started drinkin' hard and seein' her reflection in
　　
　　the knife,
　　She was tired of the attention, tired of playin' the role of
　　
　　big jim's wife.
　　She had done a lot of bad things, even once tried suicide,
　　Was lookin' to do just one good deed before she died.
　　She was gazin' to the future, riding on the jack of hearts.
　　
　　Lily washed her face, took her dress off and buried it away.
　　"has your luck run out?" she laughed at him, "well, i guess
　　
　　you must
　　Have known it would someday.
　　Be careful not to touch the wall, there's a brand-new coat of
　　
　　paint,
　　I'm glad to see you're still alive, you're lookin' like a
　　
　　saint."
　　Down the hallway footsteps were comin' for the jack of
　　
　　hearts.
　　
　　The backstage manager was pacing all around by his chair.
　　"there's something funny going on," he said, "i can just feel
　　
　　it in the air."
　　He went to get the hangin' judge, but the hangin' judge was
　　
　　drunk,
　　As the leading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk.
　　There was no actor anywhere better than the jack of hearts.
　　
　　Lily's arms were locked around the man that she dearly loved
　　
　　to touch,
　　She forgot all about the man she couldn't stand who hounded
　　
　　her so much.
　　"i've missed you so," she said to him, and he felt she was
　　
　　sincere,
　　But just beyond the door he felt jealousy and fear.
　　Just another night in the life of the jack of hearts.
　　
　　No one knew the circumstance but they say that it happened
　　
　　pretty quick,
　　The door to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver
　　
　　clicked.
　　And big jim was standin' there, ya couldn't say surprised,
　　Rosemary right beside him, steady in her eyes.
　　She was with big jim but she was leanin' to the jack of
　　
　　hearts.
　　
　　Two doors down the boys finally made it through the wall
　　And cleaned out the bank safe, it's said that they got off
　　
　　with quite a haul.
　　In the darkness by the riverbed they waited on the ground
　　For one more member who had business back in town.
　　But they couldn't go no further without the jack of hearts.
　　
　　The next day was hangin' day, the sky was overcast and black,
　　Big jim lay covered up, killed by a penknife in the back.
　　And rosemary on the gallows, she didn't even blink,
　　The hangin' judge was sober, he hadn't had a drink.
　　The only person on the scene missin' was the jack of hearts.
　　
　　The cabaret was empty now, a sign said, "closed for repair,"
　　Lily had already taken all of the dye out of her hair.
　　She was thinkin' 'bout her father, who she very rarely saw,
　　Thinkin' 'bout rosemary and thinkin' about the law.
　　But, most of all she was thinkin' 'bout the jack of hearts.
　　
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　　If You See Her, Say Hello
　　
　　
　　If you see her, say hello, she might be in tangier
　　She left here last early spring, is livin' there, i hear
　　Say for me that i'm all right though things get kind of slow
　　She might think that i've forgotten her, don't tell her it
　　
　　isn't so.
　　
　　We had a falling-out, like lovers often will
　　And to think of how she left that night, it still brings me a
　　
　　chill
　　And though our separation, it pierced me to the heart
　　She still lives inside of me, we've never been apart.
　　
　　If you get close to her, kiss her once for me
　　I always have respected her for busting out and gettin' free
　　Oh, whatever makes her happy, i won't stand in the way
　　Though the bitter taste still lingers on from the night i
　　
　　tried to make her stay.
　　
　　I see a lot of people as i make the rounds
　　And i hear her name here and there as i go from town to town
　　And i've never gotten used to it, i've just learned to turn
　　
　　it off
　　Either i'm too sensitive or else i'm gettin' soft.
　　
　　Sundown, yellow moon, i replay the past
　　I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast
　　If she's passin' back this way, i'm not that hard to find
　　Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time.
　　
　　
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　　Shelter From The Storm
　　
　　
　　'twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
　　When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud
　　I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.
　　"come in," she said,
　　"i'll give you shelter from the storm."
　　
　　And if i pass this way again, you can rest assured
　　I'll always do my best for her, on that i give my word
　　In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to
　　
　　be warm.
　　"come in," she said,
　　"i'll give you shelter from the storm."
　　
　　Not a word was spoke between us, there was little risk
　　
　　involved
　　Everything up to that point had been left unresolved.
　　Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm.
　　"come in," she said,
　　"i'll give you shelter from the storm."
　　
　　I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail,
　　Poisoned in the bushes an' blown out on the trail,
　　Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn.
　　"come in," she said,
　　"i'll give you shelter from the storm."
　　
　　Suddenly i turned around and she was standin' there
　　With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair.
　　She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of
　　
　　thorns.
　　"come in," she said,
　　"i'll give you shelter from the storm."
　　
　　Now there's a wall between us, somethin' there's been lost
　　I took too much for granted, got my signals crossed.
　　Just to think that it all began on a long-forgotten morn.
　　"come in," she said,
　　"i'll give you shelter from the storm."
　　
　　Well, the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a
　　
　　mount
　　But nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts
　　And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn.
　　"come in," she said,
　　"i'll give you shelter from the storm."
　　
　　I've heard newborn babies wailin' like a mournin' dove
　　And old men with broken teeth stranded without love.
　　Do i understand your question, man, is it hopeless and
　　
　　forlorn?
　　"come in," she said,
　　"i'll give you shelter from the storm."
　　
　　In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes
　　I bargained for salvation an' they gave me a lethal dose.
　　I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn.
　　"come in," she said,
　　"i'll give you shelter from the storm."
　　
　　Well, i'm livin' in a foreign country but i'm bound to cross
　　
　　the line
　　Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday i'll make it mine.
　　If i could only turn back the clock to when god and her were
　　
　　born.
　　"come in," she said,
　　"i'll give you shelter from the storm."
　　
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　　Buckets Of Rain
　　
　　
　　Buckets of rain
　　Buckets of tears
　　Got all them buckets comin' out of my ears.
　　Buckets of moonbeams in my hand,
　　I got all the love, honey baby,
　　You can stand.
　　
　　I been meek
　　And hard like an oak
　　I seen pretty people disappear like smoke.
　　Friends will arrive, friends will disappear,
　　If you want me, honey baby,
　　I'll be here.
　　
　　Like your smile
　　And your fingertips
　　Like the way that you move your lips.
　　I like the cool way you look at me,
　　Everything about you is bringing me
　　Misery.
　　
　　Little red wagon
　　Little red bike
　　I ain't no monkey but i know what i like.
　　I like the way you love me strong and slow,
　　I'm takin' you with me, honey baby,
　　When i go.
　　
　　Life is sad
　　Life is a bust
　　All ya can do is do what you must.
　　You do what you must do and ya do it well,
　　I'll do it for you, honey baby,
　　Can't you tell?