mornings

The sun she went down like a curtain And Lord, Memphis looks, looks bigger at night And all the tattooed boys in their uniforms They stepped in and out of the light She bought me good whiskey in Memphis She bought supper and she, she paid for the room And as best as I can remember She paid dearly for loving me too She said, ‽Hey, don't I know you? And ain't you the one, the one with the guitar boys And all them sad songs about men in the rain And did you ever miss a plain to Memp...

Well I woke up Sunday morning With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad So I had one more for desert Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes And found my cleanest dirty shirt And I shaved my face and combed my hair And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day Well I'd smoke my brain the night before With cigarettes and songs I'd been picking But I lit my first and watched the small kid cursin' At a can that he was kicki...

by Bob Dylan and Helena Springs Blue sky upon the horizon, Private eye is on my trail, And if I don't be there by morning You know that I must have spent the night in jail. I've been running from Memphis to L. A. Had an appointment set some...

Always adrift, there are trips to make The night won't break, if the day won't break But I was out, did you get in, did you Draw the right stamp on your skin, say I am ready to owe you anything I'm ready to owe you anything I'm ready...

Down the street the dogs are barkin' And the day is gettin' dark As the night comes in a-fallin' The dogs'll lose their bark An' the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my mind As I'm one too many mornings And a ...