Album Name

Another Side Of Bob Dylan

Artist

Bob Dylan

Genre

포크

Release Date

1964

Release Agency

Sony Music

Bob Dylan - Ballad In Plain D
I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze
With the innocence of a lamb
she was gentle like a fawn
I courted her proudly but now she is gone
Gone as the season she's taken.
Through young summer's breeze
I stole her away
From her mother and sister
though close did they stay
Each one of them suffering
from the failures of their day
With strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us
Of the two sisters, I loved the young.
With sensitive instincts she was the creative one
The constant scapegoat she was easily undone
By the jealousy of others around her.
For her parasite sister, I had no respect
Bound by her boredom, her pride to protect
Countless visions of the other she'd reflect
As a crutch for her scenes and her society
Myself, for what I did, I cannot be excused,
The changes I was going through
can't even be used
For the lies that I told her in hopes not to lose
The could-be dream-lover of my lifetime.
With unknown consciousness
I possessed in my grip
A magnificent mantelpiece
though its heart being chipped
Noticing not that I'd already slipped
To a sin of love's false security
From silhouetted anger to manufactured peace
Answers of emptiness, voice vacancies
Till the tombstones of damage
read me no questions but "Please,
What's wrong and what's exactly the matter?"
And so it did happen like it could have been foreseen,
The timeless explosion of fantasy's dream.
At the peak of the night, the king and the queen
Tumbled all down into pieces.
"The tragic figure!" her sister did shout,
"Leave her alone, God damn you, get out!"
And I in my armor, turning about
And nailing her to the ruins of her pettiness.
Beneath a bare light bulb the plaster did pound
Her sister and I in a screaming battleground
And she in between, the victim of sound
Soon shattered as a child 'neath her shadows
All is gone, all is gone, admit it, take flight
I gagged twice, doubled, tears blinding my sight
My mind it was mangled, I ran into the night
Leaving all of love's ashes behind me
The wind knocks my window, the room it is wet
The words to say I'm sorry, I haven't found yet
I think of her often and hope whoever she's met
Will be fully aware of how precious she is
Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me
"How good, how good does it feel to be free?"
And I answer them most mysteriously,
"Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"