The river whispers in my ear
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I've hardly a penny to my name
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The heavens have never seemed so near
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All my body glows with flame.
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The tempest struggles in the air
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And to myself alone I sing
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It could sink me then and there
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I can hear the echoes ring.
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I tried to find one smilin' face
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To drive the shadow from my head
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I'm stranded in this nameless place
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Lyin' restless in a heavy bed.
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Tell me straight out if you will
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Why must you torture me within?
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Why must you come down off your high hill?
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Throw my fate to the clouds and wind.
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Far away in a silent land
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Secret thoughts are hard to bear
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Remember me you'll understand
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Emotions we can never share.
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You trampled on me as you passed
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Left the coldest kiss upon my brow
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All my doubts and fears have gone at last
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I've nothing more to tell you now.
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I walk by tranquil lakes and streams
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As each new season's dawn awaits
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I lay awake at night with troubled dreams
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The enemy is at the gate.
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Beneath the thunder-blasted trees
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The words are ringin' off your tongue
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The ground is hard in times like these
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Stars are cold, the night is young.
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The rocks are bleak, the trees are bare
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Iron clouds go floatin' by
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Snowflakes falling in my hair
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Beneath the gray and stormy sky.
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The evenin' sun is sinking low
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The woods are dark, the town is too
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They''ll drag you down, they run the show
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Ain't no tellin' what they'll do.
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Tell Ol' Bill when he comes home
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Anything is worth a try
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Tell him that I'm not alone
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That the hour has come to do or die.
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All the world I would defy
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Let me make it plain as day
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I look at you now and I sigh
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How could it be any other way?
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Tell Ol' Bill
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| Bob Dylan |
