Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

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Like A Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan
Album: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

[Chords]
  x33210
      xx0211

[Intro]
                     

[Verse]
             
Once upon a ti

       
me you dressed

 so fine
            
You threw the 

             
bums a dime in

           
 your prime,  

 didn't you?
             
  People'd cal

         
l, say, "Bewar

e doll, 
            
you're bound t

              
o fall" You th

             
ought they wer

      
e all  a kiddi

n' you

             
  You used to 


  laugh about
             
  Everybody th

       
at was   hangi

n' out

           
 Now you don't

          
 talk so loud
           
 Now you don't

           
 seem so proud

           
About having t

              
o be scroungin

             
g for your nex

  
t meal.

[Chorus]
              
How does it fe

      
el
              
How does it fe

      
el
              
To be without 

          
a home
              
Like a complet

             
e unknown
              
Like a rolling

           
 stone

[Instrumental]
    

[Verse]
             
Aww, You've go

           
ne to the fine

              
st school all 

    
right, Miss Lo

nely
             
But you know y

              
ou only used t

      
o get   juiced

 in it
             
Nobody has eve

             
r taught you h

            
ow to live out

        
 on the street
              
And now you're

             
 gonna have to

     
 get   used to

 it

             
  You said you

       
'd never  comp

romise
             
  With the mys

              
tery tramp, bu

         
t now you  rea

lize

           
 He's not sell

           
ing any  alibi

 
s
             
 As you stare 

            
into the vacuu

          
m  of his eyes

           
And say do you

             
 want to  make

       
 a deal?

[Chorus]
              
How does it fe

      
el
              
How does it fe

      
el
              
To be on your 

       
own
              
With no direct

            
ion home
              
A complete unk

        
nown
              
Like a rolling

          
 stone

[Instrumental]
    

[Verse]
             
Aww, You never

           
 turned around

              
 to see the fr

                                                
owns 
              
On the juggler

             
s and the clow

              
ns when they a

       
ll did   trick

s for you
             
You never unde

              
rstood that it

 
 ain't no good
            
You shouldn't 

             
let other peop

            
le get your   

kicks for you

             
  You used to 

              
ride on the ch

              
rome horse wit

       
h your   diplo

mat
             
  Who carried 

              
on his shoulde

    
r a   Siamese 

cat

             
 Ain't it hard

            
  when you dis

      
cover that
           
 He really was

           
n't  where it'

   
s at
           
After he took 

              
from you every

             
thing  he coul

  
d steal.

[Chorus]
              
How does it fe

      
el
              
How does it fe

      
el
              
To have you on

             
 your own
              
With no direct

            
ion home
              
Like a complet

            
e unknown
              
Like a rolling

          
 stone

[Instrumental]
    

[Verse]
             
Aww, Princess 

           
on the steeple

             
 and all the p


retty people
             
They're all dr

              
inkin', thinki

             
n' that they  

 got it made
             
 Exchanging al

           
l precious gif

  
ts
              
But you'd bett

             
er take your d

            
iamond ring, y

ou'd better pa

wn it babe

             
  You used to 

  
be so amused
             
  At Napoleon 

       
in rags and th

e language tha

t he used

             
 Go to him now

            
, he calls you

           
, you can't re

    
fuse
             
 When you ain'

            
t got nothing,

           
 you got nothi

         
ng to lose
           
 You're invisi

              
ble now, you g

             
ot no secrets 

   
to conceal.

[Chorus]
              
How does it fe

      
el
              
How does it fe

      
el
              
To be on your 

       
own
              
With no direct

            
ion home
              
Like a complet

            
e unknown
              
Like a rolling

          
 stone

[Instrumental]