I AM NOT THERE

Bob Dylan — I'm Not There lyrics




Thing's all right and she's all too tight


In my neighborhood she cries both day and night


I know it because I was there


It's a milestone but she's down on her luck


And she's daily salooning about to make her hard earned buck


I was there






I believe where she'd stop him if she wants time to care


I believe that she'd look upon beside him to care


And I'd go by the Lord and when she's on my way


But I don't belong there






No, I don't belong to her, I don't belong to anybody


She's my Christ forsaken angel but she don't hear me cry


She's a lone hearted mystic and she cant carry on


When I'm there she's alright but then she's not when I'm gone






Heaven knows that the answer, she's don't calling no one


She's the way, her sailing beauty for she's mine for the one


And I lost her hesitating by temptation lest it runs


But she don't holler me but I'm not there, I'm gone






Now I'll cry tonight like I cried the night before


And I'm released on the heights in but I'll dream about the door


It's alone, she's forsaken by her fate, worse to tell


"It don't have approximation", she smiled, "Fare thee well"






Now when Ill teach that lady I was born to love her


But she knows that the kingdom waits so high above her


And I run but I race but it's not too fast or slow


But I dont perceive her, I'm not there, I'm gone






Well, it's all about confusion and I cry for her


Well, I dont need anybody now beside me to tell


And its all affirmation I receive but its not


Shes adorned by the beauty but she don't like the spot and she won't






Yes, she's gone like the rainbow that shined yesterday


But now she's home beside me and I'd like her here to stay


She's a lone forsaken beauty and it's don't trust anyone


I wish I was beside her but I'm not there, I'm gone






Well, it's too hard to stay here and I don't want to leave


Its so bad but amusing when shes hard, too hard to leave


Itâs a load, its a crime the way she haunt me around


But she told, Wont you hate me? but [Incomprehensible]






Yes, I believe that its rightful, oh, I believe it in my mind


I been told like I said when I before carry on the grind


And shes on yet she told her like I said, Carry on


I wish I was there to help her but I'm not there, Im gone