TANGLED UP IN BLUE (Bob Dylan)
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Early one morning the sun was shinin' I was layin' in bed.
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Wondering if she'd changed at all If her hair was still red.
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Her folks said our lives together, sure was gonna be rough.
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They never did like Mama's home-made dress, papa's bank book wasn't big enough.
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And I was standing on the side of the road, rain falling on my shoes.
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Heading out for the old east coast, Lord knows I've paid some dues,
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Getting through, tangled up in blue.
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She was married when we first met soon to be divorced
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I helped her out of a jam I guess but I used a little too much force
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We drove that car as far as we could abandoned it out west
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Split up on a sad dark night both agreeing it was best
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She turned around to look at me as I was walking away
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I heard her say over my shoulder we'll meet again some day
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On the avenue tangled up in Blue
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I had a job in the great north woods working as a cook for a spell
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But I never did like it all that much and one day the axe just fell
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So I drifted down to New Orleans where I was lucky to be employed
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Workin' for a while on a fishing boat right outside of Delacroix
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But all the while I was alone the past was close behind
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I seen a lot of women but she never escaped my mind
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And I just grew tangled up in blue
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She was working in topless place and I stopped in for a beer
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I just kept looking at the side of her face in the spotlight so clear
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And later on when the crowd thinned out I was just about to do the same
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She was standing there in back of my chair said to me Don't I know your name
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I muttered something undernaeth my breath she studdied the lines on my face
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I must admit I felt a little uneasy when she bent down to tie the laces
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Of my shoe tangled up in blue
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She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe
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I thought you'd never say hello she said you look like the silent type
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Then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me
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Written by an Italian poet from the thirteenth century
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And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal
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Pourin' off of every page like it was written in my soul
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From me to you tangled up in blue
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I lived with them on Montague Street in a basement down the stairs
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There was music in the cafes at night and revolution in the air
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Then he started in to dealing with slaves and something inside of him died
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She had to sell everything she owned and froze up inside.
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And when it finally the buttom feel out I became withdrawn
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The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keeping on
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Like a bird that flew tangled up in blue
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So now I'm going on back again I got to get to her some how
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All the people we used to know they're an illusion to me now
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Some are mathematicians some are carpenters wives
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Don't know how it all got started I don't know what they're doing with their lives
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But me, I'm still on the road headin' for another joint
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We always did feel the same we just saw it from a different point
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Of view tangled up in blue.