4th Time Around Lyrics by Bob Dylan

4th Time Around Lyrics

    When she said,
    "don't waste your words, they're just lies,"
    I cried she was deaf.
    And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes,
    Then said, "what else you got left?"
    It was then that i got up to leave
    But she said, "don't forget,
    Everybody must give something back
    For something they get."

    I stood there and hummed,
    I tapped on her drum and asked her how come.
    And she buttoned her boot,
    And straightened her suit,
    Then she said, "don't get cute."
    So i forced my hands in my pockets
    And felt with my thumbs,
    And gallantly handed her
    My very last piece of gum.

    She threw me outside,
    I stood in the dirt where ev'ryone walked.
    And after finding i'd
    Forgotten my shirt,
    I went back and knocked.
    I waited in the hallway, she went to get it,
    And i tried to make sense
    Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair
    That leaned up against . . .

    Her jamaican rum
    And when she did come, i asked her for some.
    She said, "no, dear."
    I said, "your words aren't clear,
    You'd better spit out your gum."
    She screamed till her face got so red
    Then she fell on the floor,
    And i covered her up and then
    Thought i'd go look through her drawer.

    And, when i was through
    I filled up my shoe
    And brought it to you.
    And you, you took me in,
    You loved me then
    You didn't waste time.
    And i, i never took much,
    I never asked for your crutch.
    Now don't ask for mine.

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