| Lyrics: | by Bob Dylan
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty
traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges,
soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
'm younger
than that now.
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I
screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic
facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm
younger than that now.
Girls' faces formed the forward path
From phony
jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse
evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm
younger than that now.
A self-ordained professor's tongue
Too serious to
fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the
word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that
now.
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who
teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway
led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older
then,
I'm younger than that now.
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract
threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to
protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I
was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now |
