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Knocked Out Loaded
lyrics by Bob Dylan
1. Your Wanna Ramble
Well I told my baby
I said "Baby, I know where you been
Well, I know who you are
And what league you played in"
You wanna ramble
To the break of dawn
You wanna ramble
To the break of dawn
You wanna ramble
To the break of dawn.
Well, the night is so empty
So quit and still
For only fifteen hundred dollars
You can have anybody killed
You wanna ramble
To the break of dawn
You wanna ramble
To the break of dawn
You wanna ramble
To the break of dawn.
Well, I told my baby
Further down the line
I said, "What happens tomorrow
Is on your head, not mine"
You wanna ramble
To the break of dawn
You wanna ramble
To the break of dawn
You wanna ramble
To the break of dawn.
2. They Killed Him
There was a man named Hatma Gandi
He would not bow down he would not fight
He knew the deal was down and dirty
And nothing wrong could make it right away
But he knew his duty and the prize he had to pay
Just another holy man who tried to be a friend
My God, they killed him.
Another man from Atlanta, Georgia
By name of Martin Luther King
He shook the land like the rolling thunder
And made the bells of freedom ring today
With a dream of beauty that they could not burn away
Just another holy man who dared to make a stand
My God, they killed him.
The only Son of God Almighty
The holy one called Jesus Christ
He healed the lame and fed the hungry
And for his love they took his life away
On the road to glory where the story never ends
Just the holy Son of Man we'll never understand
My God, they killed him.
There was a man named Mahatma Gandi
A man named Martin Luther King
The only Son of God Almighty
The only one called Jesus Christ
On the road to glory where the story never ends
Just the holy Son of Man we'll never understand
My God, they killed him.
There was a man named Mahatma Gandi
A man named Martin Luther King
The only Son of God Almighty
The only one called Jesus Christ
On the road to glory where the story never ends
Just the holy Son of Man we'll never understand
My God, they killed him.
3. Drifting Too Far From Shore
I didn't know that you'd be a-leavin'
Who you thought you were talking to
I said to you maybe we're even
Or maybe I'm one up on you
I sent you all my money
Just like I did before
I try to reach you honey
But you're drifting too far from shore
Drifting too far from shore
Drifting too far from shore
Drifting too far from shore
Drifting too far from shore
I ain't gonna get lost in this current
I don't like playing cat and mouse
No gentleman likes making love to a servant
Especially when he's in his father's house
I never could guess your weight baby
Never needed to call you my whore
I always thought you were straight baby
But you're drifting too far from shore
Well, drifting too far from shore
Drifting too far from shore
Drifting too far from shore
Drifting too far from shore
Well, these times and these tunnels are haunted
The bottom of the barrel is too
I waited years, sometimes, for what I wanted
Everybody can't be as lucky as you
Never no more do I wonder
Why you don't never play with me any more
And any moment you can go under
Cause you're drifting too far from shore
Yeah, drifting too far from shore
Drifting too far from shore
Drifting too far from shore
Drifting too far from shore
You and me we had completeness
I'd give you all of what I could provide
We weren't on the wrong side, sweetness,
We were the wrong side
I've already ripped out the phones, honey
You can't walk the streets in a war
I can finish this alone honey
You're drifting too far from shore
4. Precious Memories
As I travel down life's pathway
Know not what the years may hold
As I ponder hopes grow fonder
Precious memories flood my soul
Precious memories how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight
Precious memories sacred scenes unfold.
Precious father loving mother
Glide across the lonely years
And old home scenes of my childhood
In fond memories appears
Precious memories how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight
Precious memories sacred scenes unfold.
5. Maybe Someday
Maybe someday you'll be satisfied when you've lost everything
You'll have nothing left to hide
When you're through running over things, like you're walking 'cross the tracks
Maybe you'll beg me like a dog to take you back
Maybe someday you'll find out everybody's somebody's fool
Maybe then you'll realize what it would have taken to keep me cool
Maybe someday when you're by yourself alone
You'll only love that I have for you was never my own
Maybe someday you'll have nowhere to turn
You look back and wonder at the bridges you have burned
You look back sometime when the lights grew dim
And you'll see you look much better with me than you do with him
Through hostile cities and unfriendly towns
Thirty pieces of silver, no money down
Maybe someday you will understand
That something for nothing is everybody's plan
Maybe someday you'll remember what you felt
When there was blood on the moon in the cotton belt
When both of us baby, with those who some sort of a test
Neither one of us could do what we do best
I should have known better, baby, I should have called your bluff
I guess I was too off the handle, not sentimental enough
Maybe someday you'll believe me when I say
That I wanted you baby in every kind of way
Maybe someday you'll hear a voice from on high saying
For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die?
Forgive me baby for what I didn't do
For not breaking down no bedroom door to get at you
Always was a sucker for the right cross
Never wanted to go home the the last cent was lost
Maybe someday you will look back and see
That I made it so easy for you to follow me
Maybe someday there'll be nothing to tell
But I just as happy as you baby I just can't say it so well
Never slumbered or slept or waited for lightning to strike
It was no excuse for you to say that we don't think alike
You said you were going to Frisco, stay a couple of months
I always liked San Fransisco, I was there for a party once
Maybe someday you'll see that it's true,
There was no greater love than what I had for you
6. Brownsville Girl
Well, there was this movie I seen one time
About a man riding 'cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck.
He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself.
The townspeople wanted to crush that kid down and string him up by the neck.
Well the Marshall, now he beat that kid to a bloody pulp,
As the dying gunfighter lay in the sun and gasped for his last breath.
Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square
I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death.
Well I keep seeing this stuff and it just comes a-rolling in,
And you know it blows right through me like a ball and chain.
You know I can't believe we've lived so long and are still so far apart.
The memory of you keeps callin' after me like a rollin' train.
I can still see the day that you came to me on the painted desert
In your busted down Ford and your platform heels.
I could never figure out why you choose that particular place to meet,
Ah, but you were right. It was perfect, as I got in behind the wheel.
Well, we drove that car all night until we got into San Anton'
And we slept near the Alamo. your skin was so tender and soft.
Way down in Mexico you went out to find a doctor and you never came back,
I would have gone on after you, but I didn't feel like letting my head get blown off.
Well, we're driving this car and the sun is comin' up over the Rockies.
Now I know she ain't you but she's here and she's got that dark rhythm in her soul.
But I'm too over the edge and I ain't in the mood any more to remember the times when I was your only man.
And she don't want to remind me, she knows this car would go out of control.
Brownsville Girl with your Brownsville curl,
Teeth like pearls, shining like the moon above.
Brownsville Girl show me all around the world.
Brownsville Girl, you're my honey love.
Well. we crossed the panhandle and then we headed towards Amarillo.
We pulled up where Henry Porter used to live, he owned a wreckin' lot outside of town, about a mile.
Ruby was in the backyard hanging clothes, she had her red hair tied back.
She saw us come rolling up in a trail of dust, she said Henry ain't here, but you can come on in, he'll be back in a little while.
And she told us how times were tough and about how she was thinkin' of bummin' a ride back to from where she started.
But she changed the subject every time money came up.
She said Welcome to land of the living dead, but you could tell she was so broken-hearted.
She said Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt.
How far are you all going? Ruby asked us with a sigh.
We're going all the way 'till the wheels fall off and burn.
'till the sun peels off the paint and the seat covers fade and the water
moccasin dies. Ruby just smiled and said Ah, you know, some babies never learn.
Something about that movie though, well I just can't get it out of my head.
But I can't remember why I was in it or what part I was supposed to play.
All I remember about it was it starred Gregory Peck and the way people moved.
And a lot of them seemed to be looking my way.
Brownsville Girl with your Brownsville curl,
Teeth like pearls, shining like the moon above.
Brownsville Girl show me all around the world.
Brownsville Girl, you're my honey love.
Well, they were looking for somebody with a pompadour.
I was crossing the street when shots rang out.
I didn't know whether to duck or to run so I ran.
We've got him cornered in the churchyard I heard somebody shout.
Well, you saw my picture in the Corpus Christi Tribune, underneath it said 'A man with no alibi'.
You went out on a limb to testify for me, you said I was with you.
Then when I saw you break down in front of the judge and cry real tears,
It was the best acting I saw anybody do.
I've always been the kind of person that does not like to trespass but sometimes you just find yourself over the lines.
Oh, if there's an original thought out there, I could use it right now!
You know I feel pretty good, but that ain't sayin' much,
I could feel a whole lot better, if you were just here by my side to show me how.
Well, I'm standing in line in the rain to see a movie starring Gregory Peck.
Yeah, but you know it's not the one that I had in mind.
He's got a new one out now, I don't even know what it's about.
But I'll see him in anything. So I stand in line.
You know, it's funny how things never turn out the way you had'em planned.
The only thing we know for sure about Henry Porter is that his name wasn't Henry Porter.
And you know there was something about you baby that I liked that was always too good for this world.
Just like you always said there was something about me you liked that I left in the French Quarter.
Strange how people who suffered together have stronger connections than people who are most content.
I don't have any regrets, they can talk about me plenty when I'm gone.
You always said people don't do what they believe in, they just do what's most convenient, then they repent.
And I always said Hang on to me baby, and let's hope that the roof stays on.
There was a movie I seen one time, I think I sat through it twice.
I don't remember who I was or where I was bound.
All I remember about it was it starred Gregory Peck.
He wore a gun and he was shot in the back, seems like a long time ago, long before the stars were torn down.
Brownsville Girl with your Brownsville curl,
Teeth like pearls, shining like the moon above.
Brownsville Girl show me all around the world.
Brownsville Girl, you're my honey love.
7. Got My Mind Made Up
Don't ever try to change me I've been in this thing too long
There's nothing you can say or do to make me think I'm wrong
But I'm going off to Libya, there's a guy I gotta see
He's been living there three years now in an oil refinery
I got my mind made up Got my mind made up
Call you ma in Tallahassee, tell her her baby's on the line
Tell her not to worry, everything is gonna be fine
Well I'll give you all my money all my connections too
There ain't nothing in this world girl, you can say I didn't give to you
I got my mind made up Got my mind made up
You will be alright girl, someone's watching over you
He won't do nothing to you baby that I wouldn't do
Well if you don't want to see me look the other way
You don't have to feed me I ain't your dog that's gone astray
I got my mind made up
I got my mind made up
Got my mind made up
Got my mind made up
8. Under Your Spell
Something about you that I can't shake
Don't know how much more of this I can take
Baby, I'm under your spell
I was knocked out and loaded in the naked night
When my last dream exploded I noticed your light
Baby, oh what a story I could tell
It's been nice seeing you, you read me like a book
If you ever want to reach me, you know where to look
Baby, I'll be at the same hotel
I'd like to help you, but I'm in a bit of a jam
I'll call you tomorrow, if there's phones where I am
Baby, caught between heaven and hell
But I will be back, I will survive
You'll never get rid of me as long as you're alive
Baby, can't you tell?
Well, it's four in the morning by the sound of the birds
I'm staring at your picture, I'm hearing your words
Baby, they ring in my head like a bell!
Everywhere you go it's enough to break hearts
Someone always gets hurt, a fire always starts
You were too hot to handle, you were breaking every vow
I trusted you baby, you can trust me now
Turn back baby, wipe your eye
Don't think I'm leaving here, without a kiss goodbye
Baby, is there anything left to tell?
I'll see you later when I'm not so out of my head
Maybe next time I let the dead bury the dead
Baby, what more can I tell?
Well, the desert is hot, the mountain is cursed
Pray that I don't die of thirst
Baby, two feet from the well.
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