Tangled
Up In Blue - Bob Dylan
Early one morning the
sun was shinin'
I was layin' in bed
Wonderin' if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red
Her folks they said that our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like mama's home-made dress
Papa's bank book wasn't big enough
An' 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
Getting thru
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 agreein' it was best
She turned around to look at me
As i was walkin' away
I heard her say over her shoulder
``We'll meet again some day
On the avenue
Tangled up in Blue''.
I had a job in the great north woods
Workin' as a cook for a spell
But i never did like it all that much
An' one day the axe just fell
So i drifted down to New Orleans
Where i's lucky 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
An' i just grew
Tangled up in blue.
She was workin' in topless place
An' i stopped in for a beer
I just kept lookin' at the side of her face
In the spotlight so clear
An' later on when the crowd thinned out
I's just about to do the same
She was standin' there in back of my chair
Said to me ``Don't i know your name?''
I muttered somethin' underneath my breath
She studdied 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
An' 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
An' handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century
An' every one of them words rang true
An' glowed like burning 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
An' revolution in the air
Then he started dealin' with slaves
An' something inside of 'em died
She had to sell everything she owned
An' froze up inside
An' 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I became withdrawn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 carpenters 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