Positively 4th Street

[bobthedrummer]

You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend.
When I was down
You just stood there grinning.

You got a lotta nerve
To say you gotta helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that's winning.

You say I let you down
You know it's not like that
If you're so hurt
Why then don't you show it?

You say you lost your faith
But that's not where it's at.
You had no faith to lose
And you know it.

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

[bobthedrummer]

1. "Carnival"

I've walked these streets
a virtual stage
it seemed to me
make-up on their faces
actors took their places
next to me

I've walked these streets
in a carnival
of sights to see
all the cheap thrill seekers
the vendors and the dealers
they crowded around me

Have I been blind
Have I been lost
inside myself and
my own mind
hypnotized
mesmerized
by what my eyes have seen?

I've walked these streets
in a spectacle of wealth and poverty
in the diamond markets
the scarlet welcome carpet
that they just rolled out for me

I've walked these streets
in the madhouse asylum
they can be
where a wild-eyed misfit prophet
on a traffic island stopped
and he raved of saving me

Have I been blind
have I been lost
inside myself and
my own mind
hypnotized
mesmerized
by what my eyes have seen?
Have I been wrong
have I been wise
to shut my eyes
and play along
hypnotized
paralyzed
by what my eyes have found
by what my eyes have seen
what they have seen?
Have I been blind
have I been lost have I been wrong
have I been wise
have I been strong
have I been
hypnotized
mesmerized
by what my eyes have found
in that great street carnival
in that carnival?

[MO_Dem]

2. Hey, thanks

for playin' my song! Turn it up REAL loud!

[bobthedrummer]

3. OK! <cranks it up>

These are songs my bandmates actually let me sing, yes I sound like Bob Dylan and Natalie Merchant {and sometimes Howlin' Wolf}.
I like the lyrics a lot and Positively 4th Street is the all time put down classic IMHO.

[DemBones DemBones]

4. Encore! Encore!

:hippie: :smiley holding lighter in the air:


She's got everything she needs,
She's an artist, she don't look back.
She's got everything she needs,
She's an artist, she don't look back.
She can take the dark out of the nighttime
And paint the daytime black.

You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees.
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees.
But you will wind up peeking through her keyhole
Down upon your knees.

She never stumbles,
She's got no place to fall.
She never stumbles,
She's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child,
The Law can't touch her at all.

She wears an Egyptian ring
That sparkles before she speaks.
She wears an Egyptian ring
That sparkles before she speaks.
She's a hypnotist collector,
You are a walking antique.

Bow down to her on Sunday,
Salute her when her birthday comes.
Bow down to her on Sunday,
Salute her when her birthday comes.
For Halloween give her a trumpet
And for Christmas, buy her a drum.


She Belongs to Me

Bob Dylan

Copyright © 1965; renewed 1993 Special Rider Music


Edit: Imagine if Bob endorsed Dennis, too. :7

[ComerPerro]

5. My favorites to play and sing are:

Took a moment from my day
Wrapped it up in things you say
Mailed it off to your address
You'll get it pretty soon unless

The pacakging begins to break
And all the points I tried to make
are tossed with thoughts into a bin
As time leaks out my life leaks in

You won't find moments in a box
And someone else will set your clocks
I took a moment from my day
And wrapped it up in things you say
And mailed it off to you.....


and



Don't want to be an actor, pretending on the stage
Don't want to be a writer, with my thoughts out on the page
Don't want to be a painter, 'cause everyone comes to look
Don't want to be anything where my life's an open book

A dream, its true
But I'd see it through
If I could be wasting my time
With you

Don't want to be a farmer, working in the sun
Don't want to be an outlaw, always on the run
Don't want to be a climber, reaching for the top
Don't want to be anything where I don't know when to stop

A dream, its true
But I'd see it through
If I could be wasting my time
With you

So if I'm inside your head
Don't believe what you might have read
You'll see what I might have said
To hear it

Come waste your time with me....

[Melodybe]

6. This is by far my favorite Dylan song thanks for making me think about it

[bobthedrummer]

7. "It's the words, man."

:hi:

[Shakespeare]

8. Every time I hear that song....

I wanna know who pissed Dylan off bad enough to write those lyrics--those are some harsh lyrics. And an awesome song.

[sleipnir]

9. ???? Someone who lives on 4th St?

It's kinda a crappy street, and a lot of angry musicians seem to hang out there, if the present is any indicator of the past. Hummmm....There's a good Pizza place near 4th and 1st Ave, which I like, but maybe they shortchanged Dylan one night, giving him a regular instead of a sausage pizza, and then he wrote this song....

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. Listen to Simply Red's version sometime..it's great!