Not Dark Yet

Shadows are fallin’ and I’ve been here all dayIt’s too hot to sleep and time is runnin’ awayFeel like my soul has turned into steelI’ve still got the scars that the sun didn’t healThere’s not even room enough to be anywhereIt’s not dark yet but it’s gettin’ there. Well, my […]


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North Country Blues

Come gather ’round friendsAnd I’ll tell you a taleOf when the red iron pits ran plenty.But the cardboard filled windowsAnd old men on the benchesTell you now that the whole town is empty. In the north end of town,My own children are grownBut I was raised on the other.In the […]


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All Along The Watchtower

"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,"There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief.Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,None of them along the line know what any of it is worth." "No reason to get excited," the thief, he […]


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Sugar Baby

I got my back to the sun ’cause the light is too intenseI can see what everybody in the world is up againstYou can’t turn back – you can’t come back, sometimes we push too farOne day you’ll open up your eyes and you’ll see where we are Sugar Baby […]


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Mississippi

Every step of the way we walk the lineYour days are numbered, so are mineTime is pilin’ up, we struggle and we scrapeWe’re all boxed in, nowhere to escape City’s just a jungle, more games to playTrapped in the heart of it, trying to get awayI was raised in the […]


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Mr. Tambourine Man

Hey! Mister Tambourine Man,Play a song for me,I’ m not sleepy an there is no place I’ m goin’ to.Hey! Mister Tambourine Man,Play a song for meIn the jingle jangle mornin’ I’ll come follin’ you Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship,My senses have been stipped,my hand […]


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Cold Irons Bound

I’m beginnin’ to hear voices and there’s no one aroundI’m all used up and the fields have turned brownI went to church on Sunday as she passed byAnd my love for her has taken such a long time to dieWell, I’m waist deep, waist deep in the mistIt’s almost like, […]


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Floater (Too Much To Ask)

Down over the windowComes the dazzling sunlit raysThrough the back alleys – through the blindsAnother one of them endless days Honeybees are buzzin’Leaves begin to stirI’m in love with my second cousinI tell myself I could be happy forever with her I keep listenin’ for footstepsBut I ain’t hearing anyFrom […]


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Honest With Me

Well, I’m stranded in the city that never sleepsSome of these women they just give me the creepsI’m avoidin’ the Southside the best I canThese memories I got, they can strangle a man Well I came ashore in the dead of the nightLot of things can get in the way […]


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Po' Boy

Man comes to the door – I say, "For whom are you looking?"He says, "Your wife", I say, "She’s busy in the kitchen cookin’."Poor boy – where you been?I already tol’ you – won’t tell you again I say, "How much you want for that?" I go into the storeThe […]


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Make You Feel My Love

When the rain is blowin’ in your faceAnd the whole world is on your caseI could offer you a warm embraceTo make you feel my love. When the evening shadows and the stars appearAnd there is no one there to dry your tearsI could hold you for a million yearsTo […]


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Tangled Up In Blue

Early one mornin’ the sun was shinin’,I was layin’ in bedWond’rin’ if she’d changed at allIf her hair was still red.Her folks they said our lives togetherSure was gonna be roughThey never did like Mama’s homemade dressPapa’s bankbook wasn’t big enough.And I was standin’ on the side of the roadRain […]


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Like A Rolling Stone

Once upon a time, you dressed so fine,Threw the bums a dime, in your prime, didn’t you?People call, say "Beware, doll, you’re bound to fall."You thought they were all kiddin’ you. You used to laugh about Everybody that was hangin’ out,But now you don’t talk so loud, Now you don’t […]


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Million Miles

You took a part of me that I really missI keep askin’ myself how long it can go on like thisYou told yourself a lie – that’s alright, mama, I told myself one tooI’ve tried to get closer but I’m still a million miles from you. You took the silver, […]


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Love Sick

I’m walkin’ through streets that are deadWalkin’, walkin’ with you in my headMy feet are so tiredMy brain is so wiredAnd the clouds are weepin’. Did I hear someone tell a lie?Did I hear someone’s distant cry?I spoke like a childYou destroyed me with a smileWhile I was sleepin’. I’m […]


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