Bob Dylan Lyrics

Album: BLOOD ON THE TRACKS

Tangled Up In Blue Lyrics

Early one morning the sun was shining

 I was laying in bed

 Wond'ring if she'd changed it all

 If her hair was still red

 Her folks they said our lives together

 Sure was gonna be rough

 They never did like Mama's homemade dress

 Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough

 And I was standing on the side of the road

 Rain falling on my shoes

 Heading out for the East Coast

 Lord knows I've paid some dues getting through

 Tangled up in blue.

 

 She was married when we first meet

 Soon to be divorced

 I helped her out of a jam I guess

 But I used a little too much force

 We drove that car as far as we could

 Abandoned it out West

 Split it up on a dark sad night

 Both agreeing it was best

 She turned around to look at me

 As I was walking away

 I heard her say over my shoulder

 "We'll meet again someday on the avenue"

 Tangled up in blue.

 

 I had a job in the great north woods

 Working as a cook for a spell

 But I never did like it all that much

 And one day the ax just fell

 So I drifted down to New Orleans

 Where I happened to be employed

 Working for a while on a fishing boat

 Right outside of Delacroix

 But all the while I was alone 

 The past was close behind

 I seen a lot of women

 But she never escaped my mind and I just grew

 Tangled up in blue.

 

 She was working in a topless place

 And I stopped in for a beer

 I just kept looking at her side of her face

 In the spotlight so clear

 And later on as the crowd thinned out

 I's just about to do the same

 She was standing there in back of my chair

 Said to me "Don't I know your name ?"

 I muttered something underneath my breath

 She studied the lines on my face

 I must admit I felt a little uneasy

 When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe

 Tangled up in blue.

 

 She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe

 "I thought you'd never say hello" she said

 "You look like the silent type"

 Then she opened up a book of poems

 And handed it to me

 Written by an Italian poet

 From the thirteenth century

 And every one of them words rang true

 And glowed like burning coal

 Pouring off of every page

 Like it was written in my soul from me to you

 Tangled up in blue

 

 I lived with them on Montague Street

 In a basement down the stairs

 There was music in the caf,s at night

 And revolution in the air

 Then he started into dealing with slaves

 And something inside of him died

 She had to sell everything she owned

 And froze up inside

 And when finally the bottom fell out 

 I became withdrawn

 The only thing I knew how to do

 Was to keep on keeping on like a bird that flew

 Tangled up in blue.

 

 So now I'm going back again

 I got to get her somehow

 All the people we used to know

 They're an illusion to me now

 Some are mathematicians

 Some are carpenter's wives

 Don't know how it all got started

 I don't what they're doing with their lives

 But me I'm still on the road

 Heading for another joint

 We always did feel the same

 We just saw it from a different point of view

 Tangled up in Blue.