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Viewing Lyrics for Ballad in Plain D:
| | | Artist: | Bob Dylan |
| | Album: | Another Side of Bob Dylan | | Track: | Ballad in Plain D | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 1 | | | | Lyrics: | by Bob Dylan
I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze.
With the innocence of a
lamb, she was gentle like a fawn.
I courted her proudly but now she is gone,
Gone as the
season she's taken.
Through young summer's breeze, I stole her away
From her mother
and sister, though close did they stay.
Each one of them suffering from the failures of their
day,
With strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.
Of the two sisters, I loved
the young.
With sensitive instincts, she was the creative one.
The constant scapegoat, she
was easily undone
By the jealousy of others around her.
For her parasite sister, I
had no respect,
Bound by her boredom, her pride to protect.
Countless visions of the other
she'd reflect
As a crutch for her scenes and her society.
Myself, for what I did, I
cannot be excused,
The changes I was going through can't even be used,
For the lies that I
told her in hopes not to lose
The could-be dream-lover of my lifetime.
With unknown
consciousness, I possessed in my grip
A magnificent mantelpiece, though its heart being
chipped,
Noticing not that I'd already slipped
To a sin of love's false
security.
From silhouetted anger to manufactured peace,
Answers of emptiness, voice
vacancies,
Till the tombstones of damage read me no questions but, "Please,
What's wrong
and what's exactly the matter?"
And so it did happen like it could have been
foreseen,
The timeless explosion of fantasy's dream.
At the peak of the night, the king
and the queen
Tumbled all down into pieces.
"The tragic figure!" her sister did
shout,
"Leave her alone, God damn you, get out!"
And I in my armor, turning about
And
nailing her to the ruins of her pettiness.
Beneath a bare light bulb the plaster did
pound
Her sister and I in a screaming battleground.
And she in between, the victim of
sound,
Soon shattered as a child 'neath her shadows.
All is gone, all is gone, admit
it, take flight.
I gagged twice, doubled, tears blinding my sight.
My mind it was mangled,
I ran into the night
Leaving all of love's ashes behind me.
The wind knocks my
window, the room it is wet.
The words to say I'm sorry, I haven't found yet.
I think of
her often and hope whoever she's met
Will be fully aware of how precious she is.
Ah,
my friends from the prison, they ask unto me,
"How good, how good does it feel to be
free?"
And I answer them most mysteriously,
"Are birds free from the chains of the skyway | | | |
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