My Back Pages (Live) Lyrics[Intro]
Can you hear my guitar?
Is it loud enough?
This is a song by Mr. Robert Zimmerman, it's called "My Back Pages"
[Verse 1]
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rolling high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow
[Refrain]
Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now
[Verse 2]
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull, I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow
[Refrain]
Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now
[Instrumental Break]
[Refrain]
Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now
[Verse 3]
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrels who I teach
Fearing not I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
Ride across and his tiny stocks
The legend seemed to end
[Refrain]
Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now
[Outro]
Thanks
Thanks a lot, thanks a lot