Things Have Changed

Album: Wonder Boys Soundtrack (2000)
Charted: 58
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  • A worried man with a worried mind
    No one in front of me and nothing behind
    There's a woman on my lap and she's drinking champagne
    Got white skin, blood in my eyes
    I'm looking up into the sapphire-tinted skies
    I'm well dressed, waiting on the last train

    Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
    Any minute now I'm expecting all hell to break loose

    People are crazy and times are strange
    I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
    I used to care, but things have changed

    This place ain't doing me any good
    I'm in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
    Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
    Gonna take dancing lessons, do the jitterbug rag
    Ain't no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag
    Only a fool in here would think he's got anything to prove

    Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too
    Don't get up gentlemen, I'm only passing through

    People are crazy and times are strange
    I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
    I used to care, but things have changed

    I've been walking forty miles of bad road
    If the Bible is right, the world will explode
    I've been trying to get as far away from myself as I can
    Some things are too hot to touch
    The human mind can only stand so much
    You can't win with a losing hand

    Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet
    Putting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street

    People are crazy and times are strange
    I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
    I used to care, but things have changed

    I hurt easy, I just don't show it
    You can hurt someone and not even know it
    The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
    Gonna get low down, gonna fly high
    All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
    I'm in love with a woman who don't even appeal to me

    Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake
    I'm not that eager to make a mistake

    People are crazy and times are strange
    I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
    I used to care, but things have changed Writer/s: Bob Dylan
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 5

  • Patrick from Colorado Just saw the movie A Street Car Named Desire
    Blanche says toward the end. Don’t get up gentlemen I’m only passing through. I guess Bobby lifted that line. Great lyrics. Except the lifted line.
  • Kevin from Reading , PaThis is such an amazing song. It's actually kind of spooky, both the music and the way Dylan sings it. Another of his many songs about our impending doom. (I've been walking 40 miles of bad road / if the bible is right the world will to explode)
  • Kenny from Clydebank, ScotlandI haven't seen the video for this song, and come to that, I wish there were a video for every great dylan song. That's something that every rock star with cash to spare should do - make videos for all their best songs. Can you imagine the images for Tangled up in Blue and Just like a Woman? And the stand-out image in Things Have Changed for me would be, "feel like stoppin' the first woman I meet, throwing her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street....' Speaks volumes, of being being in a high place, sleeping alone.
  • Dylan from Salt Lake City, UtIronically, when Dylan performed the song for the 2000 Academy Awards via satellite uplink, he omitted the verse that contains the line "I'm in the wrong town/I should be in Hollywood."
  • Chad from Reading, PaLove the video for this song. It fits it perfectly
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