Just a minute before you leave girl
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Just a minute before you touch the door
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What is it that you're trying to achieve, girl ?
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Do you think we can talk about it some more ?
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You know, the streets are filled with vipers
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Who've lost all ray of hope
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You know, it ain't even safe no more
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In the palace of the Pope.
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Don't fall apart on me tonight
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I just don't think that I could handle it
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Don't fall apart on me tonight
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Yesterday's just a memory
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Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
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And I need you, yeah.
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Come over here from over there, girl
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Sit down here, you can have my chair
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I can't see us going anywhere, girl
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The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can't take you there
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I wish I'd have been a doctor
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Maybe I'd have saved some life that had been lost
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Maybe I'd have done some good in the world
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'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed.
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Don't fall apart on me tonight
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I just don't think that I could handle it
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Don't fall apart on me tonight
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Yesterday's just a memory
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Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
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And I need you, yeah.
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I ain't too good at conversation, girl
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So you might not know exactly how I feel
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But if I could, I'd bring bring you to the mountaintop, girl
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And build you a house made out of stainless steel
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But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
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That's hanging in the Louvre
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My throat start to tickle and my nose itches
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But I know that I can't move.
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Don't fall apart on me tonight
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I just don't think that I could handle it
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Don't fall apart on me tonight
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Yesterday's gone but the past lives on
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Tomorrow's just one step beyond
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And I need you, yeah.
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Who are these people who are walking towards you
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Do you know them or will there be a fight ?
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With their humorless smiles so easy to see through
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Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right ?
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Do you remember St. James Street
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Where you blew Jackie P.'s mind ?
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You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet
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And laid his life on the line.
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Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl
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No more booby traps and bombs
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No more decadence and charm
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No more affection that's misplaced, girl
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No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms
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What about that millionaire with the drumsticks in his pants ?
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He looked so baffled and so bewildered
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When he played and we didn't dance.
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Don't fall apart on me tonight
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I just don't think that I could handle it
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Don't fall apart on me tonight
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Yesterday's just a memory
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Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
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And I need you, yeah.
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Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight
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| Bob Dylan |
