Bob Dylan Lyrics

Album: BLONDE ON BLONDE

Absolutely Sweet Marie Lyrics

Well, your railroad gate, you know I just can't jump it

 Sometimes it gets so hard, you see

 I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet

 With all these promises you left for me

 But where are you tonight, sweet Marie ?

 

 Well, I waited for you when I was half sick

 Yes, I waited for you when you hated me

 Well, I waited for you inside of the frozen traffic

 When you knew I had some other place to be

 Now where are you tonight, sweet Marie ? 

 

 Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously

 But then, now again, not too many can be like you, fortunately.

 

 Well, six white horses that you did promise

 Were fin'ly delivered down to the penitentiary

 But to live outside the law, you must be honest

 I know you always say that you agree

 But where are you tonight, sweet Marie ?

 

 Well I don't know how it happened

 But the river-boat captain he knows my fate

 But ev'rybody else, even yourself

 They're just gonna have to wait.

 

 Well, I got the fever down in my pockets

 The Persian drunkard, he follows me

 Yes, I can take him to your house but I can't unlock it

 You see, you forgot to leave me with the key

 Oh, where are you tonight, sweet Marie ?

 

 Now, I been in jail when all my mail showed

 That a man can't give his address out to bad company

 And now I stand here lookin' at your yellow railroad

 In the ruins of your balcony

 Wond'ring where you are tonight, sweet Marie ?