WORDS FILL MY HEAD

 

Around The World In 1978

 

All I Really Want To Do

Going Going Gone

Budokan Version

European Version

If You See Her, Say Hello

The Man In Me

Simple Twist Of Fate

Am I Your Stepchild?

First Version

Second Version

Tangled Up In Blue

 

All I Really Want To Do

 (Budokan version)

 

I ain't lookin' to make you fry,

See you fly or watch you die

I don't care if you feel like me,

See like me or be like me.

All I really want to do,

All I really want to do,

All I really want to do,

Is, baby, be friends with you.

 

I don't want to meet your kin,

Make you spin or do you in,

And I don't want to drag you down,

Chain you down, or be your clown.

All I really want to do,

All I really want to do,

All I really want to do,

Is, baby, be friends with you.

 

I don't care if you analyze me.

Categorize me or hypnotize me.

I don't care if you feel like me,

See like me or be like me.

All I really want to do,

All I really want to do,

All I really want to do,

Is, baby, be friends with you,

Be friends with you,

Be friends with you.

 

[Source: Bob Dylan At Budokan]

 

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Going Going Gone

Budokan version

 

Well, I've just reached a place

Where I can't stay awake

I got to leave you baby

Before my heart will break

I'm going,

I'm going,

I'm gone.

 

Come over here babe

Cause I'm telling you this

You got to believe me

You got to give me one more kiss

I'm going,

I'm going,

I'm gone.

 

Fix me one more drink baby

And hold me one more time

But don't get to close

To make me change my mind

I'm going,

I'm going,

I'm gone.

 

Now, my mama always said "Someday, too, you got to follow your heart"

"You'll be mine at the end of the line"

"All that's gold wasn't meant to shine"

"Just don't put your horse in front of your car"

 

Now, from Boston to Birmingham

Is a two day ride

But I got to be going now

Cause I'm so dissatisfied

I'm going,

I'm going,

I'm gone.

 

[Source: Bob Dylan At Budokan]

 

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European version

 

Well, I've just reached a place

Where I'm just felling kind of low

I don't mind leaving

Baby, I'm not afraid to go

I'm going,

Yes, I'm going,

Well, I'm gone.

 

Fix me one more drink baby

And hold me one more time

But don't get to close

Start make me change my mind

Cause I'm going,

Yes, I'm going,

Well, I'm gone.

 

I've been hanging 'round your place so long

Feelin' like a clown

You don't know how to do nothin' but

Tear a good man's reputation down

I'm going,

Yes, I'm going,

Well, I'm gone.

 

Now, from Memphis to Norfolk

Is a 33 hour ride

But I got to be going now baby

Cause I'm just so dissatisfied

So I'm going,

Yes, I'm going,

Well, I'm gone.

 

Now, my mama always said something true "Follow your heart"

"You'll be fine at the end of the line"

"All that's gold wasn't meant to shine"

"Just don't put your horse in front of your car"

 

Step over here baby

And shake my hand

I can find another woman

You can find another man

I'm going,

Yes, I'm going,

Well, I'm gone.

 

[Source: Tape from Paris 3 July 1978 with help from Åke Jonsson]

 

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If You See Her, Say Hello

(Rehearsal version)

 

If you see her say hello, she might be in Tangier

She left here last early spring, she's livin' there, I hear

Say for me that I'm all right though things are kind of slow

If she's wonderin' what I'm doin' by now, just tell her that you don't know.

 

We had a falling-out like lovers sometimes do

But to think of how she left that night it still hurts me kinda through and through

And though our situation, it hurts me to the bone

She's better off with someone else and I'm better off alone.

 

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, but I've learned to turn it off

Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm just gettin' soft.

 

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past

I know every scene by heart 'cause they all went by so fast

If she's passin' back this way, most likely I will be gone

But if I'm not, just let her know it's best that she stay gone.

 

[Source: Tape from tour rehearsals with help from Liz Bradley]

 

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The Man In Me

(Rehearsal version)

 

The man in me will do nearly any thing

As for compensation, whatever you want to bring

Take a woman like you

To get through to the man in me.

 

Lost on the river of no return

I try to make it to ya but I'm afraid my heart will burn

Take a woman like your kind

To find the man in me.

[Source: Tape from tour rehearsals with help from Liz Bradley]

 

But, oh, what a wonderful feeling

Just to know that you're really there

It sets my heart a-reeling

Right from my feet to the top of the stairs

 

I can't believe it, I can't believe it's true

I'm lyin' next to her but I'm thinking of you

Takes a woman like you

To get through to the man in me

 

But, oh, what a wonderful feeling

Just to know that you're really real

It makes my head go reeling

I can't believe that you  __________________

[Source: Tape from tour rehearsals with help from Liz Bradley]

 

I know you got a husband and that's a fact

But, ah baby, turn me loose or cover my track

Takes a woman like you

To get through to the man in me

 

[Source: Tape from tour rehearsals with help from Liz Bradley]

 

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Simple Twist Of Fate

(Budokan version)

 

They sat together in the park

As the evening sky got dark

She looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to her bones

Twas then she felt alone and wished that she'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

Stopped into a renovated hotel with the neon burning bright

She felt the heat of the night hit her like a freight train

Moving with a simple twist of fate.

 

A saxophone some place played

She was walking on by the arcade

She heard the melody rise and fade, the sun was comin' 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 and she was gone

He didn't see nothin' but the dawn

Got out of bed and put his clothes back on, pushed back the blinds

Found a note she'd left behind, but he could not concentrate

On anything except a simple twist of fate.

 

He hears the ticking of the clocks

Walks alone through the city blocks

Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailors all come in

Maybe he'll see her once again, how long must he wait

One more time for a simple twist of fate.

 

People tell me it's a crime

To remember her for too long a time

She should have caught me in my prime, she would have stayed with me

Instead of goin' back off to sea and leavin' me to meditate

Upon a simple twist of fate.

 

[Source: Bob Dylan At Budokan]

 

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Am I Your Stepchild?

First version

 

You mistreat me baby

I can't see no reason why

You know that I would kill for you

And I'm not afraid to die

But you treat me like a stepchild

Am I your stepchild?

I want to turn and walk all over you

But my heart just won't let you be

 

I'm nervous in your company

And my knees get weak

Both my eyes get misty

And my tongue can't speak

You treat me like a stepchild

Like a stepchild

I wanna turn, hide away

But I just can't let you be

 

You know we go back a long way baby

You know that it's true

I pulled you out of dope scenes

Orgies and jam sessions too

You treat me like a stepchild

Like a stepchild

I want to turn and walk all over you

But my heart just won't let you be

 

Am I Your Stepchild?

 

[Source: Isis # 12/13 – from Boston, Massachusetts,  20 September 1978]

 

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Second version

 

You treat me mean girl

And then you treat me rough

I give you all my loving

And it's never quite enough

You treat me like a stepchild

What do you think, am I your stepchild?

I wanna turn and walk all over you

But my heart says no, just let her be

 

I crawl across the desert for you girl

And you say "So what?"

Bring you all the diamonds from the mine

And I find that your door is shut

You treat me like a stepchild

Am I your stepchild?

I wanna turn and walk away from you

But I just can't let you be

 

What's the matter with you baby

Have you lost your point of view

Well you try to tell me one person

That's taken advantage of you

You treat me like a stepchild

You think that's right?

You treat me like a stepchild

I wanna turn and walk all over you

But my heart says no, just let her be

 

[Source: The Telegraph – as performed in St Paul, Minnesota, 31 October 1978]

 

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Tangled Up In Blue

 

Early one morning the sun was shinin'

And I was layin' in bed

Wond'ring if she'd changed at all

If her hair was still red

Her folks they said that our lives together

Well, it 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

Ready to pay 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

And we drove that car as far as we could

We abandoned it way out west

Splittin' up on a dark sad night

Both agreeing that it was best

She turned around to look at me

One more time as I was walking away

Sayin' over her shoulder

"Boy, we're bound to meet again some day, on the avenue,"

"Tangled up in blue."

 

I remember stayin' in the north woods

Livin' in a vagabond hotel

One day during the pourin' rain

I could feel how the ax just fell

So I drifted down to New Orleans

I was lucky not to be destroyed

I almost died from the boiling flat

Two miles 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 dancin' in the Flamingo Club

And I was passing by, so I stopped in for a beer

I just kept starin' at the side of her face

In the spotlight so clear

And later on as the crowd thinned out

I was just about to do the same

She was standing there right behind my chair

Touchin' me, said "You know, it ain't no accident that you came"

I muttered something 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 shoes

Tangled up in blue.

 

She lit a burner on the stove

Wearin' a dress made out of stars and stripes

"Thought you'd never say hello", she said

"You know, you look like you could be the silent type"

And she opened up the Bible

And she started quoting it to me

Jeremiah, chapter 17,

From verses 21 and 33

And every one of them words rang true

And glowed like burning coal

Pouring 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

There was revolution in the air

Then he started into dealing with slaves

And something inside of her froze

She had to sell everything she owned

Even her jewellery and her clothes

And when it all came crashing down

I became withdrawn

The only thing I knew how to do

Was keep on keeping on like a bird that flew

Tangled up in blue.

 

So now I'm going on back again

I got to get to her and be brave

All the people we used to know

At least the ones that ain't in the grave

Some are bricklayers, some are bank robbers,

Some are burglars and some are truck drivers' wives

I don't know how it all got started

I have no idea what they're doin' with their lives

But me, I'm still on the road

Heading for another joint

We always did feel the same

We just saw it from a different point, different point of view

Tangled up in blue.

 

[Source: Tape from Charlotte, North Carolina, 10 December 1978, with help from John Howells and Ron Mura]

 

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This page last updated 20 May 2001.