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Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan
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D-DU-UDU
 I'm  walking,
 through streets  that are dead
walking  with you in my head
 My feet are so tired
 My brain  is so wired
 And the clouds are weeping
 Did I,
 hear someone tell a lie
 Did I,
 hear someone's distant cry
 I spoke like a child
 You destroyed me with a smile
 while i was sleeping
 I'm sick of love*)
 That I'm in the thick  of it
 This kind of love
 I'm so sick  of it
 I see,
 I see lovers in the meadow
 I see,
 I see silhouettes in the window
 I watch them 'til they're gone
 and they leave me hangin' on
 to a shadow
 I'm sick of love
 I hear the clock tick
 this kind of love
 I'm lovesick
 Sometimes
 the silence can be like thunder
 Sometimes
 I wanna take to the road of plunder
 Could you ever be true?
 I think of you and I wonder
 I'm sick of love
 I wish I'd never met you
 I'm sick of love
 I'm tryin' to forget you
Just  don't know what to do
I'd  give anything to  be with you
 (2) Dirt Road Blues
Gonna  walk down that dirt road 'Til someone lets me ride
Gonna  walk down that dirt road 'Til someone lets me ride
If  I can't find my baby
 I'm gonna run away and hide
 Well, I been pacing round the room, hoping maybe she come back
 pacing round the room, hoping maybe she come back
 Well, I been praying for salvation
 Laying round in a one-room country shack
 Gonna walk down that dirt road, until my eyes begin to bleed
 Gonna walk down that dirt road, until my eyes begin to bleed
 'Til there's nothing left to see
 'Til the chains have been shattered and I been freed
 But I'm looking at my shadow, I been watching the clouds up above
 looking at my shadow, watching the clouds up above
 Rolling through the rain and hail
 Looking for the sunny side of love
 Gonna walk down that dirt road 'til everything becomes the same
 Gonna walk down that dirt road 'til everything becomes the same
 I keep on walking
 'til I hear her holler out my name
 (3) Standing In the Doorway
 /
  I'm walkin' through the summer nights
 /
 the jukebox playing low
 /
 yesterday everything was goin' too fast
 /
 Today it's movin' too slowF Bb/f F Bb/f
 I got no place left to turn
 I got nothin' left to burnC /b Am C/g
 Don't know if I saw you if I would kiss you or kill you
 /
 It probably wouldn't matter to you anyhow
You  left me standing  in the doorway cryin'
I  got nothin' to go back to now.
 The light in this place is so bad
 Makin' me sick in the head
 All the laughter is just makin' me sad
 The stars have turned cherry red
  I'm strummin' on my gay guitar
  Smokin' a cheap cigar
 The ghost of our old love has not gone away
 Don't look it like it will anytime soon
 You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
 Under the midnight moon.
 Maybe they'll get me and maybe they won't
 But not tonight and it won't be here
 There are things I could say, but I don't
 I know the mercy of God must be near
  I been ridin a midnight train
  Got ice water in my veins
 I would be crazy if I took you back
 It would go up against every rule
 You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
 Sufferin' like a fool.
 When the last rays of daylight go down
 Buddy you'll roll no more
 I can hear the church bells ringin' in the yard
 I wonder who they're ringin' for
  I know I can't win
  But my heart just won't give in
 Last night I danced with a stranger
 But she just reminded me you were the one
 You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
 In the dark land of the sun.
 I eat when I'm hungry drink when I'm dry
 And live my life on the square
 And even if the flesh falls off of my face
 I know someone will be there to care
  It always means so much
  Even the softest touch
 I see nothing to be gained by any explanation
 There's no words that need to be said
 You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
 Blues wrapped around my head.
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 (4) Million Miles
You  took a part of me that I really miss
 I keep asking myself how long it can go on like this
 You told  yourself a lie
 Thats alright mama I told myself one too
 I try  to get closer but I'm still  a million miles from you
 You took the silver, you took the gold
 You left me standing out in the cold
 People asked about you, I didn't tell them everything I knew
 Well I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you
 I'm driftin in and out of dreamless sleep
 Somehow my memory's in a ditch so deep
 Did so many things I never did intend to do
 And I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you
 I need your love so bad, turn your lamp down low *)
 I need every bit of it for the places that I go
 Sometimes I wonder, tell us just what its all coming to
 Well I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you
  ...
 Well I don't dare close my eyes and I don't dare wink
 Maybe in the next life I'll be able to hear myself think
 Feel like talking to somebody but I just don't know who
 Well I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you
 Yes the last thing you said before you hit the street
 Gonna find me a janitor to sweep me off my feet
 I said thats alright mamma you, you do what you gotta do
 Well I try to get closer I'm still a million miles from you
 Rock me pretty baby rock me all at once,
 Rock me for a little while
 Rock me for a couple of months And I'll rock you too
 I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you
 Well there's voices in the night trying to be heard
 I'm sitting here listening to every mind-pollutin' word
 I know plenty of people put me up for a day or two
 Yes I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you
 
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The  air is gettin' hotter,  there's a rumblin'  in the skies.
I've  been wadin' through the high muddy waters,
 But the heat  riseth in my eyes.
 Everyday  your memory goes dimmer,
It  doesn't haunt me like it did  before.
I've  been walkin' through the middle  of nowhere,
Tryin'  to get to heaven before they close  the door.
 When I was in Missouri, they would not let me be.
 I had to leave there in a hurry, I only saw what they let me see.
 You broke a heart that loved you,
 Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore.
 I've been walkin' that lonesome valley,
 Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
 People on the platforms, waitin' for the trains.
 I can hear their hearts a-beatin', like pendulum swingin' on chains.
 When you think that you've lost everything,
 You find out you can always lose a little more.
 I'm just going down the road feelin' bad,
 Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
 I'm goin' down the river, down to New Orleans.
 They tell me everything is gonna be all right,
 But I don't know what all right even means.
 I was ridin' in a buggy with Miss Mary Jane,
 Miss Mary Jane got a house in Baltimore.
 I've been all around the world boys,
 I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
 Gotta sleep down in the parlor, and relive my dreams.
 I close my eyes and I wonder, if everything is as hollow as it seems.
 Some trains don't pull no gamblers,
 No midnight ramblers like they did before.
 I've been to Sugartown, I shook the sugar down,
 Now I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door
 (6) Till I fell In Love With You
Well  my nerves are exploding
 And my body is tense
 I feel like the whole world
 got me pinned up against the fence
 I been hit too hard
 Seen too much
 Nothing can heal  me now
 But your touch
I  just don't know what I'm gonna do
 I was allright  'til I fell  in love with you
 Well my house is on fire
 Burnin' to the sky
 Well I thought it would rain
 But the clouds passed by
 I feel like I'm comin'
 To the end of my way
 But I know God is my shield
 And he won't lead me astray
 Still I don't know what I'm gonna do
 I was allright 'til I fell in love with you
 Boys in the street
 Beginnin' to play
 Girls like birds
 Flyin' away
 When I'm gone
 You will remember my name
 I'm gonna win my way
 To wealth and fame
 Yet I just don't know what I'm gonna do
 I was allright 'til I fell in love with you
 Well junk's pilin' up
 Takin' up space
 My eyes feel
 Like they're fallin' off my face
 Sweat fallin' down
 I'm starin' at the floor
 I'm thinkin' about that girl
 Who won't be back no more
 I just don't know what to do
 I was allright 'til I fell in love with you
 Well I'm tired of talkin'
 I'm tired of tryin' to explain
 My attempts to please you
 They were all in vain
 Tomorrow night
 Before the sun goes down
 If I'm still among the livin'
 I'll be Dixie bound
 Still I just don't know what I'm gonna do
 I was allright 'til I fell in love with you
 (7) Not Dark Yet
 Shadows are falling and I been here all day
 
 It's too hot to sleep and time is running away
Feel  like my soul  has turned  into steel
 I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
There's  not even room  enough to be  anywhere
 It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
 Well my sense of humanity is going down the drain
 Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain
 She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
 She put down in writin' what was in her mind
 I just don't see why I should even care
 It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
 Well I been to London and I been to gay Paris
 I followed the river and I got to the sea
 I've been down to the bottom of a world full of lies
 I ain't lookin for nothin' in anyone's eyes
 Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear
 It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
 I was born here and I'll die here, against my will*)
 I know it looks like I'm movin' but I'm standin' still
 Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
 I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
 Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer
 It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
 (8) Cold Irons Bound
I'm  beginning to hear voices and there's no one around
 now I'm all used up and the fields have turned brown
 I went to church on Sunday and she passed by
 and my love for her is taking such a long time to die
 Lord I'm waist  deep, waist  deep in the mist
 It's almost like,  almost  like I don't  exist
 I'm 20  miles out of town,  Cold Irons bound
 The walls of pride is high and wide,
 can't see over to the other side
 It's such a sad thing to see beauty decay,
 it's sadder still to feel your heart torn away
 one look at you and I'm out of control
 like the universe has swallowed me whole
 I'm 20 miles out of town and Cold Irons bound
 There's too many people, too many to recall
 I thought some of 'em were friends of mine
 I was wrong about 'em all
 Well, the road is rocky and the hillside's mud
 Up over my head nothing but clouds of blood
 I found my world, I found my world in you
 but your love just hasn't proved true
 I'm 20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound
 20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound
 Well the winds in Chicago have torn me to shreds
 reality has always had too many heads
 some things last longer than you think they will
 there are some kind of things you can never kill
 it's you and you only I'm thinking about
 but you can't see in, and it's hard looking out
 I'm 20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound
 Well the fat's in the fire, and the water's in the tank
 and the whiskey's in the jar, and the money's in the bank
 I tried to love and protect you because I cared
 I'm gonna remember forever the joy we've shared
 but looking at you and I'm on my bended knee
 you have no idea what you do to me
 I'm 20 miles out of town Cold Irons bound
 20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound
 (9) Make me Feel My Love
 When the rain is blowing in your face
/
 and the whole world is on your case
 I could offer a warm embrace
/
 to make you feel my love
 When evening shatters and the stars appear
 and there is no one there to dry your tears
 I could hold you for a million years
 to make you feel my love
I  know you haven't made your mind  up yet
but  I would never  do you wrong
I've  known it from the moment that  we met
no  doubt in my mind where you belong
 I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue
 I'd go crawling down the avenue
 Oh there's nothing that I wouldn't do
 to make you feel my love
 The storms are raging on the rolling sea
 and on the highway of regret
 the winds of change are blowing wild and free
 you ain't seen nothing like me yet
 I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
 nothing that I wouldn't do
 go to the ends of the earth for you
 to make you feel my love
 (10) Cant wait
I  can't wait
Wait  for you to change my mind
 It's late
I'm  tryin to walk the line
 Well it's way past midnight
 And there's some people all around
Some  on their way up
 Some on their way down
The  air burns and I'm tryin to think  straight
And  I don't know how  much longer I can wait
 I'm your man
 I've tried to recover the sweet love that we knew
 You understand
 That my heart can't go on beating without you
 Well your loveliness has wounded me
 I'm reeling from the blow
 I wish I knew what it was that keeps me loving you so
 I'm breathin' hard standin' at the gate
 And I don't know how much longer I can wait
 Skies are gray
 I'm looking for anything that will bring a happy glow
 Night or day
 It doesn't matter where I go anymore I just go 1)
 If I ever saw you comin' I don't know what I might do
 I'd like to think I could control myself
 But it isn't true
 That's how it is
 When things disintegrate
 And I don't know how much longer I can wait
 I'm doomed to love  you
 I been rollin' through stormy weather
 I'm thinkin' of  you
 And all the places we could roam together
 It's mighty funny
 The end of time has just begun
 Oh honey, after all these years you're still the one
 Well I'm strollin' through the lonely graveyard of my mind
 I left my life with you
 Somewhere back there along the line
 I thought somehow that I would be spared this day
 I don't know how much longer I can wait
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 I can't wait
 Wait for you to change my mind
 It's late
I'm  tryin to walk the line
  *)
 Well it's way past midnight
 And there's some people all around
Some  on their way up
 Some on their way down
The  air burns and I'm tryin to think  straight
 And I don't  know how much longer  I can wait
 I'm doomed to love  you
 I been rollin' through stormy weather
 I'm thinkin' of  you
 And all the places we could roam together
 (11) Highlands
Well  my heart's in The Highlands, gentle and fair
 Honeysuckle blooming in the wildwood air
Bluebells  blazing where the Aberdeen waters flow
 Well my heart's  in The Highlands
 I'm gonna go  there when I feel good enough to go
 Windows were shaking all night in my dreams
 Everything was exactly the way that it seems
 Woke up this mornin' and I looked at the same old page
 Same old rat race, life in the same old cage
 I don't want nothin' from anyone, ain't that much to take
 Wouldn't know the difference between a real blonde and a fake
 Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery
 I wish someone'd come and push back the clock for me
 Well my heart's in The Highlands wherever I roam
 That's where I'll be when I get called home
 The wind it whispers to the buckeyed trees in rhyme
 Well my heart's in The Highlands
 I can only get there one step at a time
 I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound
 Someone's always yellin' "Turn it down"
 Feel like I'm driftin', driftin' from scene to scene
 I'm wonderin' what in the devil could it all possibly mean?
 Insanity is smashin' up against my soul
 You could say I was on anything but a roll
 If I had a conscience, well I just might blow my top
 What would I do with it anyway, maybe take it to the pawn shop
 My heart's in The Highlands at the break of dawn
 by the beautiful lake of the Black Swan
 Big white clouds like chariots that swing down low
 Well my heart's in The Highlands only place left to go
 I'm in Boston town in some restaurant
 I got no idea what I want
 or maybe I do but I'm just really not sure
 Waitress comes over, nobody in the place but me and her
 Well it must be a holiday, there's nobody around
 She studies me closely as I sit down
 She got a pretty face and long white shiny legs
 I said "Tell me what I want"
 She say "You probably want hard boiled eggs"
 I said "That's right, bring me some"
 She says "We ain't got any, you picked the wrong time to come"
 then she says "I know you're an artist, draw a picture of me"
 I said "I would if I could but
 I don't do sketches from memory"
 Well she's?? near she says "I'm right here in front of you or haven't you looked"
 I say "All right I know but I don't have my drawin' book"
 She gives me a napkin, she say "You can do it on that"
 I say "Yes I could but I don't know where my pencil is at"
 She pulls one out from behind her ear
 She says "Alright now go ahead draw me I'm stayin' right here"
 I make a few lines and I show it for her to see
 Well she takes the napkin and throws it back and says
 "That don't look a thing like me"
 I said "Oh kind miss, it most certainly does"
 She say "You must be joking", I said "I wish I was"
 She says "You don't read women authors do ya?"
 at least that's what I think I hear her say
 Well I say "How would you know, and what would it matter anyway"
 Well she says "Ya just don't seem like ya do", I said "You're way wrong"
 She says "Which ones have you read then?", I say "Read Erica Jong"
 She goes away for a minute, and I slide out, out of my chair
 I step outside back to the busy street, but nobody's goin' anywhere
 Well my heart's in The Highlands with the horses and hounds
 way up in the border country far from the towns
 with the twang of the arrow and the snap of the bow
 My heart's in The Highlands, can't see any other way to go
 Every day is the same thing, out the door
 feel further away than ever before
 Some things in life it just gets too late to learn
 Well I'm lost somewhere, I must have made a few bad turns
 I see people in the park, forgettin' their troubles and woes
 They're drinkin' and dancin', wearin' bright colored clothes
 All the young men with the young women lookin' so good
 Well I'd trade places with any of 'em, in a minute if I could
 I'm crossin' the street to get away from a mangy dog
 talkin' to myself in a monologue
 I think what I need might be a full length leather coat
 Somebody just asked me if I'm registered to vote
 The sun is beginnin' to shine on me
 But it's not like the sun that used to be
 The party's over and there's less and less to say
 I got new eyes, everything looks far away
 Well my heart's in The Highlands at the break of day
 over the hills and far away
 There's a way to get there, and I'll figure it out somehow
 Well I'm already there in my mind and that's good enough for now

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Readable chord sheet for Time Out Of Mind by Bob Dylan

I'm[Em] walking,
through s[D]treets that are [Em]dead

[D]walking with you in my [Em]head
My feet are so [D]tired
My [B]brain is so [Am]wired  [Am7]
And the clouds are [Em]weeping

Did I,
hear someone tell a lie
Did I,
hear someone's distant cry
I spoke like a child
You destroyed me with a smile
while i was sleeping

[G]  [A]  I'm sick of love*)[G]  [A]
That I'm in the [Em]thick of it
[G]  [A]  This kind of love [G]   [A]
I'm so [Em]sick of it

I see,
I see lovers in the meadow
I see,
I see silhouettes in the window
I watch them 'til they're gone
and they leave me hangin' on
to a shadow

I'm sick of love
I hear the clock tick
this kind of love
I'm lovesick

Sometimes
the silence can be like thunder
Sometimes
I wanna take to the road of plunder
Could you ever be true?
I think of you and I wonder

I'm sick of love
I wish I'd never met you
I'm sick of love
I'm tryin' to forget you

[Em]Just don't know what to [D]do
[C]I'd give anything [B]to be with [Em]you

(2) Dirt Road Blues

[E]Gonna walk down that dirt road 'Til someone lets me ride
[A]Gonna walk down that dirt road 'Til someone lets me [E]ride
[B]If I can't find my baby
I'm gonna run away and [E]hide

Well, I been pacing round the room, hoping maybe she come back
pacing round the room, hoping maybe she come back
Well, I been praying for salvation
Laying round in a one-room country shack

Gonna walk down that dirt road, until my eyes begin to bleed
Gonna walk down that dirt road, until my eyes begin to bleed
'Til there's nothing left to see
'Til the chains have been shattered and I been freed

But I'm looking at my shadow, I been watching the clouds up above
looking at my shadow, watching the clouds up above
Rolling through the rain and hail
Looking for the sunny side of love

Gonna walk down that dirt road 'til everything becomes the same
Gonna walk down that dirt road 'til everything becomes the same
I keep on walking
'til I hear her holler out my name

(3) Standing In the Doorway

[C]                  /[B]   [Am]                 [C/g]
 I'm walkin' through      the summer nights
[C]         /[B]        [Am]   [C/g]
the jukebox playing low
[C]                   /[B] [Am]                 [C/g]
yesterday everything    was goin' too fast
[C]    /[B]                 [Am]    [C/g]
Today   it's movin' too slowF        Bb/f           F     Bb/f
I got no place left to turn
[F]                 [Bb/f]  [F]     [F]  [G]
I got nothin' left to burnC               /b                 Am                   C/g
Don't know if I saw you if I would kiss you or kill you
[C]                    /[B]               [Am]    [C/g]
It probably wouldn't matter to you anyhow
[F]You left me [C]standing[G] in the doorway [D]cryin'
[F]I got nothin' to go back to [C]now.

The light in this place is so bad
Makin' me sick in the head
All the laughter is just makin' me sad
The stars have turned cherry red
   I'm strummin' on my gay guitar
   Smokin' a cheap cigar
The ghost of our old love has not gone away
Don't look it like it will anytime soon
You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
Under the midnight moon.

Maybe they'll get me and maybe they won't
But not tonight and it won't be here
There are things I could say, but I don't
I know the mercy of God must be near
   I been ridin a midnight train
   Got ice water in my veins
I would be crazy if I took you back
It would go up against every rule
You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
Sufferin' like a fool.

When the last rays of daylight go down
Buddy you'll roll no more
I can hear the church bells ringin' in the yard
I wonder who they're ringin' for
   I know I can't win
   But my heart just won't give in
Last night I danced with a stranger
But she just reminded me you were the one
You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
In the dark land of the sun.

I eat when I'm hungry drink when I'm dry
And live my life on the square
And even if the flesh falls off of my face
I know someone will be there to care
   It always means so much
   Even the softest touch
I see nothing to be gained by any explanation
There's no words that need to be said
You left me standin' in the doorway cryin'
Blues wrapped around my head.

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(4) Million Miles

[Em]You took a part of me that I really miss

I keep asking myself how long it can go on like this

You [A7]told yourself a lie
Thats alright mama I told myself one [Em]too

I [B7]try to get closer but I'm [A7]still a million miles from [Em]you

You took the silver, you took the gold
You left me standing out in the cold
People asked about you, I didn't tell them everything I knew
Well I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you

I'm driftin in and out of dreamless sleep
Somehow my memory's in a ditch so deep
Did so many things I never did intend to do
And I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you

I need your love so bad, turn your lamp down low *)
I need every bit of it for the places that I go
Sometimes I wonder, tell us just what its all coming to
Well I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you

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Well I don't dare close my eyes and I don't dare wink
Maybe in the next life I'll be able to hear myself think
Feel like talking to somebody but I just don't know who
Well I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you

Yes the last thing you said before you hit the street
Gonna find me a janitor to sweep me off my feet
I said thats alright mamma you, you do what you gotta do
Well I try to get closer I'm still a million miles from you

Rock me pretty baby rock me all at once,
Rock me for a little while
Rock me for a couple of months And I'll rock you too
I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you

Well there's voices in the night trying to be heard
I'm sitting here listening to every mind-pollutin' word
I know plenty of people put me up for a day or two
Yes I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you

 [F/c] [G/b]   [G(add9)]                       [F]
                           [C6add9]  [F]
 .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
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-2---0---|-0---------------|---2-2---2---2---|-0---------------|-------------2---||-2----|
-3---0---|-0---------------|-------------3---|-2---------------|-------------2---||-3----|
-3---2---|-2---------------|-------------3---|-3---------------|-------------3---||-3----|
---------|-3---------------|-------------1---|-----------------|-------------0---||-1----|

or

 [F/c] [G/b]   [G(add9)]                       [F]
                           [C6add9]  [F]
 .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
---------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||------|
---------|-0---------------|-------------1---|-1---------------|-------------1---||-1----|
-2---0---|-0---------------|-------------2---|-0---------------|-------------0---||-2----|
-3---0---|-0---------------|-------0-----3---|-2---------------|-------------0-0-||-3----|
-3---2---|-2---------------|---0-0---0---3---|-3---------------|-------------0---||-3----|
---------|-3---------------|-------------1---|-----------------|-------------0---||-1----|

[F]The air is gettin' hotter[G], there's a [F]rumblin' in the skies. [C]
[F]I've been wadin' through the high muddy [G]waters,
But the [F]heat riseth in my [C]eyes.
Every[Am/F#]day your memory goes [F]dimmer,
[Dm]It doesn't haunt me like it [C]did before.
[F]I've been walkin' through the [G]middle of nowhere,
[F]Tryin' to get to heaven before they [C]close the door.

When I was in Missouri, they would not let me be.
I had to leave there in a hurry, I only saw what they let me see.
You broke a heart that loved you,
Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore.
I've been walkin' that lonesome valley,
Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.

People on the platforms, waitin' for the trains.
I can hear their hearts a-beatin', like pendulum swingin' on chains.
When you think that you've lost everything,
You find out you can always lose a little more.
I'm just going down the road feelin' bad,
Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.

I'm goin' down the river, down to New Orleans.
They tell me everything is gonna be all right,
But I don't know what all right even means.
I was ridin' in a buggy with Miss Mary Jane,
Miss Mary Jane got a house in Baltimore.
I've been all around the world boys,
I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.

Gotta sleep down in the parlor, and relive my dreams.
I close my eyes and I wonder, if everything is as hollow as it seems.
Some trains don't pull no gamblers,
No midnight ramblers like they did before.
I've been to Sugartown, I shook the sugar down,
Now I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door

(6) Till I fell In Love With You

[E]Well my nerves are exploding
And my body is tense
I feel like the whole world
got me pinned up against the fence
I been hit too [A]hard
Seen too much
Nothing can [E]heal me now
But your touch
[B]I just don't know what I'm gonna do
I was [A]allright 'til I [E]fell in love with you

Well my house is on fire
Burnin' to the sky
Well I thought it would rain
But the clouds passed by
I feel like I'm comin'
To the end of my way
But I know God is my shield
And he won't lead me astray
Still I don't know what I'm gonna do
I was allright 'til I fell in love with you

Boys in the street
Beginnin' to play
Girls like birds
Flyin' away
When I'm gone
You will remember my name
I'm gonna win my way
To wealth and fame
Yet I just don't know what I'm gonna do
I was allright 'til I fell in love with you

Well junk's pilin' up
Takin' up space
My eyes feel
Like they're fallin' off my face
Sweat fallin' down
I'm starin' at the floor
I'm thinkin' about that girl
Who won't be back no more
I just don't know what to do
I was allright 'til I fell in love with you

Well I'm tired of talkin'
I'm tired of tryin' to explain
My attempts to please you
They were all in vain
Tomorrow night
Before the sun goes down
If I'm still among the livin'
I'll be Dixie bound
Still I just don't know what I'm gonna do
I was allright 'til I fell in love with you

(7) Not Dark Yet

[C]                  [F/c]                  [C]
Shadows are falling and I been here all day
                    [F/c]                    [C]
It's too hot to sleep and time is running away
[G]Feel like my [G/F]soul has [C/E]turned into [C]steel
[Am]                 [C/g]            [F]          [C]
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
[G]There's not even [G/F]room enough to [C/E]be anywh[C]ere
[Am]       [C/g]      [F]                     [C]
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

Well my sense of humanity is going down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain
She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
She put down in writin' what was in her mind
I just don't see why I should even care
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

Well I been to London and I been to gay Paris
I followed the river and I got to the sea
I've been down to the bottom of a world full of lies
I ain't lookin for nothin' in anyone's eyes
Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

I was born here and I'll die here, against my will*)
I know it looks like I'm movin' but I'm standin' still
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

(8) Cold Irons Bound

[Em7]I'm beginning to hear voices and there's no one around

now I'm all used up and the fields have turned brown

I went to church on Sunday and she passed by

and my love for her is taking such a long time to die
Lord I'm [Bbdim]waist deep, [A7]waist deep in the [Em7]mist
It's almost [Bbdim]like, almos[A7]t like I [Em7]don't exist
I'm [A7]20 miles out of [G]town, Cold Irons [Em7]bound

The walls of pride is high and wide,
can't see over to the other side
It's such a sad thing to see beauty decay,
it's sadder still to feel your heart torn away
one look at you and I'm out of control
like the universe has swallowed me whole
I'm 20 miles out of town and Cold Irons bound

There's too many people, too many to recall
I thought some of 'em were friends of mine
I was wrong about 'em all
Well, the road is rocky and the hillside's mud
Up over my head nothing but clouds of blood
I found my world, I found my world in you
but your love just hasn't proved true
I'm 20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound
20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound

Well the winds in Chicago have torn me to shreds
reality has always had too many heads
some things last longer than you think they will
there are some kind of things you can never kill
it's you and you only I'm thinking about
but you can't see in, and it's hard looking out
I'm 20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound

Well the fat's in the fire, and the water's in the tank
and the whiskey's in the jar, and the money's in the bank
I tried to love and protect you because I cared
I'm gonna remember forever the joy we've shared
but looking at you and I'm on my bended knee
you have no idea what you do to me
I'm 20 miles out of town Cold Irons bound
20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound

(9) Make me Feel My Love

[C]                        [G/b]
When the rain is blowing in your face
[Gm]/[Bb]                  [F/a]
and the whole world is on your case
[Fm/Ab]           [C/g]
I could offer a warm embrace
[D9]/[f#]       [G11]     [C]
to make you feel my love

When evening shatters and the stars appear
and there is no one there to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
to make you feel my love
[F]I know you haven't made your [C]mind up yet
[C]but I would [F]never do you [C]wrong
[F]I've known it from the moment [C]that we met
[Dm]no doubt in my mind where you [G]belong
I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue
I'd go crawling down the avenue
Oh there's nothing that I wouldn't do
to make you feel my love

The storms are raging on the rolling sea
and on the highway of regret
the winds of change are blowing wild and free
you ain't seen nothing like me yet

I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
nothing that I wouldn't do
go to the ends of the earth for you
to make you feel my love

(10) Cant wait

[Em]I can't wait
[A]Wait for you to change my [Em]mind

It's late
[A]I'm tryin to walk the [Em]line

Well it's way past midnight

And there's some people all around
[A]Some on their way up

Some on their way down
[Em]The air burns and I'm tryin to th[A]ink straight
[C]And I don't know [B7]how much longer I can [Em]wait

I'm your man
I've tried to recover the sweet love that we knew
You understand
That my heart can't go on beating without you
Well your loveliness has wounded me
I'm reeling from the blow
I wish I knew what it was that keeps me loving you so
I'm breathin' hard standin' at the gate
And I don't know how much longer I can wait

Skies are gray
I'm looking for anything that will bring a happy glow
Night or day
It doesn't matter where I go anymore I just go 1)
If I ever saw you comin' I don't know what I might do
I'd like to think I could control myself
But it isn't true
That's how it is
When things disintegrate
And I don't know how much longer I can wait
I'm doomed to [A]love you
I been rollin' through stormy [Em]weather
I'm thinkin' [A]of you
And all the places we could roam [Bsus4]together
It's mighty [Em]funny
The end of time has just begun
Oh honey, after all these years you're still the one
Well I'm strollin' through the lonely graveyard of my mind
I left my life with you
Somewhere back there along the line
I thought somehow that I would be spared this day
I don't know how much longer I can wait

version 2

I can't [Em]wait
[A] Wait for you to change my [Em]mind

It's late
[A]I'm tryin to walk the [Em]line
          *)
Well it's way past midnight

And there's some people all around
[A]Some on their way up

Some on their way down
[Em]The air burns and I'm tryin to th[A]ink straight
And I don[C]'t know how much [B7add11]longer I can [Em]wait
I'm doomed to [A]love you
I been rollin' through stormy [Em]weather
I'm thinkin' [A]of you
And all the places we could roam [Bsus4]together

(11) Highlands

[E7]Well my heart's in The Highlands, gentle and fair

Honeysuckle blooming in the wildwood air
[A]Bluebells blazing where the Aberdeen waters [E7]flow
Well my [B7]heart's in The Highlands
I'm gonna [A]go there when I feel good enough to [E7]go

Windows were shaking all night in my dreams
Everything was exactly the way that it seems
Woke up this mornin' and I looked at the same old page
Same old rat race, life in the same old cage

I don't want nothin' from anyone, ain't that much to take
Wouldn't know the difference between a real blonde and a fake
Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery
I wish someone'd come and push back the clock for me

Well my heart's in The Highlands wherever I roam
That's where I'll be when I get called home
The wind it whispers to the buckeyed trees in rhyme
Well my heart's in The Highlands
I can only get there one step at a time

I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound
Someone's always yellin' "Turn it down"
Feel like I'm driftin', driftin' from scene to scene
I'm wonderin' what in the devil could it all possibly mean?

Insanity is smashin' up against my soul
You could say I was on anything but a roll
If I had a conscience, well I just might blow my top
What would I do with it anyway, maybe take it to the pawn shop

My heart's in The Highlands at the break of dawn
by the beautiful lake of the Black Swan
Big white clouds like chariots that swing down low
Well my heart's in The Highlands only place left to go

I'm in Boston town in some restaurant
I got no idea what I want
or maybe I do but I'm just really not sure
Waitress comes over, nobody in the place but me and her

Well it must be a holiday, there's nobody around
She studies me closely as I sit down
She got a pretty face and long white shiny legs
I said "Tell me what I want"
She say "You probably want hard boiled eggs"

I said "That's right, bring me some"
She says "We ain't got any, you picked the wrong time to come"
then she says "I know you're an artist, draw a picture of me"
I said "I would if I could but
I don't do sketches from memory"

Well she's?? near she says "I'm right here in front of you or haven't you looked"
I say "All right I know but I don't have my drawin' book"
She gives me a napkin, she say "You can do it on that"
I say "Yes I could but I don't know where my pencil is at"

She pulls one out from behind her ear
She says "Alright now go ahead draw me I'm stayin' right here"
I make a few lines and I show it for her to see
Well she takes the napkin and throws it back and says
"That don't look a thing like me"

I said "Oh kind miss, it most certainly does"
She say "You must be joking", I said "I wish I was"
She says "You don't read women authors do ya?"
at least that's what I think I hear her say
Well I say "How would you know, and what would it matter anyway"

Well she says "Ya just don't seem like ya do", I said "You're way wrong"
She says "Which ones have you read then?", I say "Read Erica Jong"
She goes away for a minute, and I slide out, out of my chair
I step outside back to the busy street, but nobody's goin' anywhere

Well my heart's in The Highlands with the horses and hounds
way up in the border country far from the towns
with the twang of the arrow and the snap of the bow
My heart's in The Highlands, can't see any other way to go

Every day is the same thing, out the door
feel further away than ever before
Some things in life it just gets too late to learn
Well I'm lost somewhere, I must have made a few bad turns

I see people in the park, forgettin' their troubles and woes
They're drinkin' and dancin', wearin' bright colored clothes
All the young men with the young women lookin' so good
Well I'd trade places with any of 'em, in a minute if I could

I'm crossin' the street to get away from a mangy dog
talkin' to myself in a monologue
I think what I need might be a full length leather coat
Somebody just asked me if I'm registered to vote

The sun is beginnin' to shine on me
But it's not like the sun that used to be
The party's over and there's less and less to say
I got new eyes, everything looks far away

Well my heart's in The Highlands at the break of day
over the hills and far away
There's a way to get there, and I'll figure it out somehow
Well I'm already there in my mind and that's good enough for now

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