To Ramona

Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
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  • Ramona, come closer
    Shut softly your watery eyes
    The pangs of your sadness
    Will pass as your senses will rise
    For the flowers of the city
    Though breathlike, get deathlike sometimes
    And there's no use in tryin'
    To deal with the dyin'
    Though I cannot explain that in lines

    Your cracked country lips
    I still wish to kiss
    As to be under the strength of your skin
    Your magnetic movements
    Still capture the minutes I'm in
    But it grieves my heart, love
    To see you tryin' to be a part of
    A world that just don't exist
    It's all just a dream, babe
    A vacuum, a scheme, babe
    That sucks you into feelin' like this

    I can see that your head
    Has been twisted and fed
    With worthless foam from the mouth
    I can tell you are torn
    Between stayin' and returnin'
    Back to the South
    You've been fooled into thinking
    That the finishin' end is at hand
    Yet there's no one to beat you
    No one t' defeat you
    'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

    I've heard you say many times
    That you're better than no one
    And no one is better than you
    If you really believe that
    You know you have
    Nothing to win and nothing to lose
    From fixtures and forces and friends
    Your sorrow does stem
    That hype you and type you
    Making you feel
    That you gotta be exactly like them

    I'd forever talk to you
    But soon my words
    Would turn into a meaningless ring
    For deep in my heart
    I know there is no help I can bring
    Everything passes
    Everything changes
    Just do what you think you should do
    And someday maybe
    Who knows, baby
    I'll come and be cryin' to you Writer/s: Bob Dylan
    Publisher: ONErpm, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Ramona from North Of ShreveportGreat song.
  • Cool from Medellín Bob Dylan is just cool.
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