Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Music
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In this town
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where you're falling apart
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and all alone
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Oh, how the pond broke a roar,
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and it was so good for the landlord
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to see me so crazy, wasn't it?
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They both were so glad to see me
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destroy everything I had.
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Pain sure brings out the best in people,
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doesn't it?
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Why didn't you just leave me,
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if you didn't want to stay?
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Why'd you want to hurt me so bad,
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that it'd have to be that way?
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Now you stand here say ing,
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is there anything I got left to say?
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And you, I see you're still with her,
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well
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That's fine,
but she's coming on so strange
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Can't you tell?
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Take off her iron chain
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I think I better explain
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I'd do it but I just can
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't remember how
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Talk to her
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You're her lover now
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I've already assumed
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that we're in the felony room
But I ain't the judge,
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you don't have to be nice to me
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Will you please tell that to your friend
with the cowboy hat
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He keeps on saying everything
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twice to me
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You know I was straight with you,
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you know I never tried to change
you in any way
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You know that if you didn't want to be with me,
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that you did n't have to stay
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Now you stand here say
in' you forgive me
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what you expect me to say
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And you, you just sit around
and ask for ashtrays,
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can't you reach?
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I see you kissin' on the cheek
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every time she gives a speech
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With the postcards of the pyramid
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And the snapshots of Billy the Kid
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They're all so nice, but why must
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Every body buy
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I'll explain it to her,
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you're her lover now
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Everybody that cares,
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they're all goin' up the castle stairs
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But I'm not up in El Paso, honey
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I just can't recall San Francisco at all
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I can't even remember El Paso,
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honey
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You knew you nev er had to be faithful
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I never wanted you to grieve
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Why was it so hard for you
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If you didn't want to be with me
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Just to leave
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Why must you stand there now
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With your fingers going
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up my sleeve
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And you, just what do you do anyway?
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Isn't there anything you can really say?
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When she's standing on a bassoon
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With her fish head and
her high poon
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And her fake beard plastered on her brow
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You better do something
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She's your lover now
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Must have been so sad this,
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do I look like Charles at least,
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you think I still got what you still got baby
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My voice is really warm,
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it's just that it ain't got any form
It's like a dead man's last
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pistol shot, baby
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Ah, your mouth used to be so naked,
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your eyes used to be so blue
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Your hurts used to be so nameless,
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your tears used to be so few
Now your eyes cry wolf,
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while your mouth cries
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I'm not scared of animals
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like you
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And you,
there's really nothing about you
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I can recall
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I just saw you that one time
and you were just there,
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that's all
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But I've already been kissed,
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I'm not gonna get in to this
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I couldn't make it anyhow
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You do it for me,
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you're her lover now
Did you get that down?
She's Your Lover Now
Bob Dylan, The Band
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