Tangled Up in Blue

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Early one morning the sun was 
shining
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I was laying in bed
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Wondering if she'd changed at all
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If her hair was still red
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Her folks, they said our lives 
together
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Sure was gonna be rough
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They never did like mama's homemade 
dress
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Papa's bank book wasn't big enough
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And I was standing on the side of 
the road
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Rain falling on my shoes
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Heading out for the East coast
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Lord knows I've paid some dues 
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getting through
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She was married when we first met
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Soon to be divorced
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I helped her out of a jam, I guess
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But I used a little too much force
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We drove that car as far as we could
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Abandoned it out West
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Split up on a dark sad night
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Both agreeing it was best
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She turned around to look at me
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As I was walking away
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I heard her say over my shoulder
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"We'll meet again someday on the 
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avenue"
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I had a job in the great north woods
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Working as a cook for a spell
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But I never did like it all that 
much
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And one day the axe just fell
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So I drifted down to New Orleans
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Where I was lucky enough to be 
employed
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Working for a while on a fishing 
boat
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Right outside of Delacroix
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But all the while I was alone
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The past was close behind
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I seen a lot of women
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But she never escaped my mind, 
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and I just grew
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She was working in a topless place
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I stopped in for a beer
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I just kept looking at the side of 
her face
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In the spotlight so clear
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Later on when the crowd thinned out
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I was just about to do the same
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She was standing there in back of my
 chair
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Sayin', "Tell me, don't I know your 
name?"
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I muttered something underneath my 
breath
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She studied the lines on my face
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I must admit I felt a little uneasy
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When she bent down to tie the 
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laces of my shoes
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She lit a burner on the stove
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And offered me a pipe
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"I thought you'd never say hello," 
she said
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"You look like the silent type"
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And then she opened up a book of 
poems
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And handed it to me
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Written by an Italian poet
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From the 13th century
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And every one of them words rang 
true
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And glowed like burning coals
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Pouring off every page
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Like it was written in my soul 
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from me to you
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I lived with them on Montague street
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In a basement down the stairs
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There was music in the cafés at 
night
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And revolution in the air
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And then he started into dealing 
with slaves
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And something inside of him died
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She had to sell everything she owned
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And froze up inside
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And when one day the bottom fell out
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I became withdrawn
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The only thing I knew how to do
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Was to keep on keepin' on like a 
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bird that flew
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So now I'm going back again
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I got to get to her somehow
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All the people we used to know
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They're an illusion to me now
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Some are mathematicians
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Some are carpenter's wives
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Don't know how it all got started
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I don't know what they're doing with
 their lives
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Me, I'm still on the road
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Headed for another joint
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We always did feel the same
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We just saw it from a different 
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point of view
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