In the prime of your life
At a time when a crisis is common in men
Old enough to know better
In the middle of life
Equally distant from mother and maker and
My, old enough to know better
Look at you man, she says
You're mutton dressed as lamb
Fancy yourself, very gentleman's quarterly
What in the world would a home county girl want with you?
Opportunity waits
In the window for men in a moment of weakness
Old enough to know better
And when it's too late, she smiles, takes your hand and says
Sorry I ruined your life
Old enough to know better
Look at you man, she says
You're mutton dressed as lamb
Fancy yourself, very gentleman's quarterly
What in the world would a home county girl want with you?
There's no release in your life
Another LoverShe's calling up her old boyfriends
I'm falling in love with her again
She's looking for a change of pace, she says
I can see that old look on her face
She says it takes an open mind
I think she means an open relationship
She says I can be so unkind
All I said was
Don't think twice
If you've got to go
Mary, it's alright
How much love can one man need?
Don't change your mind
Because true love is hard to find
But I'll find another lover
She says it isn't wrong or right
And me I'm emotionally colour blind
She's waking me, it's half past four
I'm sleeping on the bathroom floor again
She's falling for his new age verse
I'm holding back her level of consciousness
I know it isn't wrong or right
All I said was
Don't think twice
If you've got to go
Mary, it's alright
How much love can one man need?
Don't change your mind
Because true love is hard to find
But I'll find another lover
I ran into an old girlfriend
On the corner of Varrick and Vandam
She said she had to change her address
What a strange coincidence
39 Down
I was laughing and crying
My eyes were sore
39 down
One lucky strike more
And I didn't have a care
I had eleven thousand words
I could roll them off just like dice
There were movers and shakers
on Wannermaker Place
I was holding my own
Between the dives and the steakhouses
and furthest from my mind
Was the thought of my refection
Coming back from the machine
which said
Everything is gone
No more carry on
I was bound to fall
I had it all
I half way through the song
And not a stone unturned
True life revelations
for the at least concerned
And I said to my wife
Do you think I've said too much?
She said
Well, isn't that what your job is?
Then when I got into furniture
It was curtains for me
But I can blame it on Upper Street
and my Ambrose Heal
and still, furthest from my mind
Was the thought of my refection
Coming back from the machine
which said
Everything is gone
No more carry on
I was bound to fall
I had it all
I was laughing and crying
My eyes were sore
39 down
One lucky strike more
And I didn't have a care
I had eleven thousand words
I could roll them off just like dice
Just like dice
Memphis
Lyrics by Karen Black
You're a Big Girl Now
Lyrics by Bob Dylan
Alright People
I've got the lock on the low
I'm going back to New Mexico
Cold comfort and kerosene
Plain solitude
Guess I lost my touch
Those little things that used to mean so much
seem so insignificant
In the cold, cold light
Well, how wrong can you be?
And how long must it take to see
That your world
Can spin fine, without me
Now, there's nothing more to say
It's alright
People change
Well, you can paint me blue
And I could lay the whole thing on you
Or hold on ala Hollywood
O'Neil and McGraw
But the trouble with me
is that it took me so long to see
That the rain is pouring without you
And I've got nothing left to say
It's alright
People change
You can take my love
And bury it deep
And I'll take your love
And I'll bury it deep
I'll bury it deep
Well, how wrong can you be?
And how long must it take to see
That your world
Is turning, without me
Now, there's nothing more to say
It's alright
People change
Love Like This Can't Last
I've got a beautiful thing going on
With a beautiful woman
She's going to love me 'til tomorrow, then
Well, she's only human
Love like this can't last
I got me half way to Phoenix
For the 17th time
I'm on my 59th rewrite
of Leaving on your Mind
I've got a pocket full of Kleenex
I've got no need of crying
I've got absolute faith
It's just a matter of time
Love like this can't last
Jesus said to Mary
I can't stand it anymore
We both know you must betray me
Why can't we just get it over with?
She threw herself before him, she said
We will never part
And it's going to take a miracle
To break my heart
Love like this can't last
I've got a beautiful thing going on
With a beautiful woman
She's going to love me 'til tomorrow, then
Well, she's only human
Love like this can't last
Went to Woodstock
I went to Woodstock
I've been to Big Sur,too
And neither one held much for
I tried The Tropics
Couldn't get into Celine
Not my scene
Well, I was hoping you might know
Where did my angel go?
I held a mirror to my love stained life
I had no need of other means
I went for a song
But then I was young and strong
Every night long
And I was hoping you might know
Where did my angel go?
It was not just my imagine
I was unduly favoured
There is no free association
I've got to bring home the bacon
How can love be fair
When it's always out of nowhere?
Smile if you want to
Yes, but take my advice
And try to avoid the present tense
And don't got to Woodstock
Not if you feel alright
You know, young and uptight
Well, I was hoping you might know
Where did my angel go?
Fool You Are
From Northernden to Northern California
Folk don't really change
And there's always the rain
From Southport beach to Sunday in the Hamptons
I never could complain
But there's always the rain
The fool you are in Manchester
The fool you are in Maine
The lies you tell in Liverpool
Will follow you to Spain
From Lambeth Walk to London, Ontario
We long to run away
When it looks like rain
From Sunset strip to Waterloo Underground
The stars are just the same
And it looks like rain
The fool you are in Manchester
The fool you are in Maine
The lies you tell in Liverpool
Will follow you to Spain
From the Sunshine State to Shaftsbury Avenue
Folk don't really change
And there's always the rain
And the night before in Northern California
Is dawning on the Thames
And it looks like rain
The fool you are in Manchester
The fool you are in Maine
The lies you tell in Liverpool
Will follow you to Spain
It's a fool you are
And the morning after Leicester Square
Is hung over in Rome
And never again in Newcastle
Is one more for the road
and it looks like rain
Weakness
Place one finger under your eye
Catch a tear and let it dry
Grasp the moment now and it’s gone
With the wild swans
Yonder streetlight avenue
See it beckons me and you
Wander downtown, follow your shoes
Likely they know better than you
Without an earthly chance
But somehow a second glance
She said “I read your paperback”
Could we be insignificant others?
You could accuse me of courting despair
Forsaken for art’s sake, guilty as charged
You could refuse me, I know
You’ll do as you please
But could I call you Sweetness?
For you are my weakness