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Intro
Verse 1
Early one mornin' the
sun was shinin',
I was layin' in
bed
Wond'rin' if she'd
changed at all
If her
hair was still red.
Her folks they said our
lives together
Sure was gonna be
rough
They never did like Mama's
homemade dress
Papa's
bankbook wasn't big enough.
And I was standin' on the
side of the road
Rain fallin' on my
shoes
Heading out for the
East Coast
Lord
knows I've paid some
dues gettin'
through,
Tangled
up in
blue.
Verse 2
She was married when w
e first met
Soon to be divorced
I helped her out of a
jam, I guess,
But I
used a little too much force.
We drove that car as f
ar as we could
Abandoned it out West
Split up on a dark sad
night
Both agr
eeing it was best.
She turned around to
look at me
As I was walkin' aw
ay
I heard her say
over my shoulder,
"We'l
l meet again someday
on the avenue
,"
Tangled
up in
blue.
Verse 3
I had a job in the gre
at north woods
Working as a cook for
a spell
But I never did like i
t all that much
And on
e day the ax just fell.
So I drifted down to N
ew Orleans
Where I happened to be
employed
Workin' for a while on
a fishin' boat
Right
outside of Delacroix.
But all the while I was alone
The past was close
behind,
I seen a lot of women
But s
he never escaped my m
ind, and I ju
st grew
Tangled
up in
blue.
Verse 4
She was workin' in a t
opless place
And I stopped in for a
beer,
I just kept lookin' at
the side of her face
In the
spotlight so clear.
And later on as the cr
owd thinned out
I's just about to do t
he same,
She was standing there
in back of my chair
Said t
o me, "Don't I know your name?"
I muttered somethin'
underneath my breath,
She studied the lin
es on my face.
I must admit I felt a little un
easy
When
she bent down to tie
the laces of
my shoe,
Tangled
up in
blue.
Verse 5
She lit a burner
on the stove
and o
ffered me a p
ipe
"I thought you'd never
say hello," she said
"You
look like the silent type."
T
hen she opened up a book
of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian
poet
From
the thirteenth century.
And every one of them
words rang true
And glowed like bur
nin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like
it was written in my
soul from me
to you,
Tangled
up in
blue.
Verse 6
I lived with them on M
ontague Street
In a basement down the
stairs,
There was music in the
cafes at night
And re
volution in the air.
Then he started into d
ealing with slaves
And something inside o
f him died.
She had to sell everyt
hing she owned
And fr
oze up inside.
And when finally the
bottom fell out
I became withdrawn,
The only thing I knew how to do
Was t
o keep on keepin' on
like a bird t
hat flew,
Tangled
up in
blue.
Verse 7
So now I'm goin' back
again,
I got to get to her so
mehow.
All the people we used
to know
They'r
e an illusion to me now.
Some are mathematician
s
Some are carpenter's w
ives.
Don't know how it all
got started,
I don'
t know what they're doin' with their lives.
But me, I'm still
on the road
Headin' for another
joint
We always did
feel the same,
We ju
st saw it from a diff
erent point o
f view,
Tangled
up in
blue.
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