| Lyrics: | by Bob Dylan
In death, you face life with a child and a wife
Who sleep-walks through
your dreams into walls.
You're a soldier of mercy, you're cold and you curse,
"He who
cannot be trusted must fall."
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety.
You
fight for the throne and you travel alone
Unknown as you slowly sink
And there's no time
to think.
In the Federal City you been blown and shown pity,
In secret, for pieces
of change.
The empress attracts you but oppression distracts you
And it makes you feel
violent and strange.
Memory, ecstasy, tyranny, hypocrisy
Betrayed by a kiss on a
cool night of bliss
In the valley of the missing link
And you have no time to
think.
Judges will haunt you, the country priestess will want you
Her worst is
better than best.
I've seen all these decoys through a set of deep turquoise eyes
And I
feel so depressed.
China doll, alcohol, duality, mortality.
Mercury rules you and
destiny fools you
Like the plague, with a dangerous wink
And there's no time to
think.
Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you
Where the lion lies
down with the lamb.
I'd have paid off the traitor and killed him much later
But that's
just the way that I am.
Paradise, sacrifice, mortality, reality.
But the magician is
quicker and his game
Is much thicker than blood and blacker than ink
And there's no time
to think.
Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us,
He's content when you're under
his thumb.
Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him
To survive it you play deaf and
dumb.
Equality, liberty, humility, simplicity.
You glance through the mirror and
there's eyes staring clear
At the back of your head as you drink
And there's no time to
think.
Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow
Will offer their heads for a
prayer.
You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations
Anytime, anyplace,
anywhere.
Mercury, gravity, nobility, humility.
You know you can't keep her and the
water gets deeper
That is leading you onto the brink
But there's no time to
think.
You've murdered your vanity, buried your sanity
For pleasure you must now
resist.
Lovers obey you but they cannot sway you
They're not even sure you
exist.
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism.
Fools making laws for the
breaking of jaws
And the sound of the keys as they clink
But there's no time to
think.
The bridge that you travel on goes to the Babylon girl
With the rose in her
hair.
Starlight in the East and you're finally released
You're stranded but with nothing
to share.
Loyalty, unity, epitome, rigidity.
You turn around for one real last
glimpse of Camille
'Neath the moon shinin' bloody and pink
And there's no time to
think.
Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you
But no, you will not be
deceived.
Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt,
You can give but you
cannot receive.
No time to choose when the truth must die,
No time to lose or say
goodbye,
No time to prepare for the victim that's there,
No time to suffer or
blink
And no time to think |
