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 ___
Her folks they said our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like Mama’s homemade _____
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 ____ Coast
Lord knows I’ve paid some dues gettin’ through
Tangled up in blue
She was married when we first met
Soon to be divorced
I helped her out of a ___, I guess
But I used a little too much force
We drove that car as far as we could
Abandoned it out ____
Split up on a dark sad night
Both agreeing it was best
She turned around to look at me
As I was walkin’ ____
I heard her say over my shoulder
“We’ll meet again someday on the avenue”
Tangled up in blue
I had a job in the great _____ woods
Working as a cook for a spell
But I never did like it all that much
And one day the ax just fell
So I ______ down to New 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 _____
The past was close behind
I seen a lot of women
But she never escaped my mind, and I just grew
Tangled up in blue
She was workin’ in a topless place
And I stopped in for a beer
I just kept lookin’ at the side of her face
In the spotlight so _____
And later on as the crowd thinned out
I’s just about to do the same
She was standing there in back of my chair
Said to me, “Don’t I know your ____?”
I muttered somethin’ underneath my breath
She studied the lines on my ____
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
Tangled up in blue
She lit a burner on the stove
And offered me a pipe
“I thought you’d never say hello,” she said
“You look like the ______ type”
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian ____
From the thirteenth century
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin’ coal
Pourin’ off of every page
Like it was written in my ____ from me to you
Tangled up in blue
I lived with them on Montague Street
In a basement down the stairs
There was _____ in the cafés at night
And revolution in the air
Then he started into dealing with slaves
And something inside of him _____
She had to sell everything she owned
And froze up inside
And when finally the bottom fell out
I became withdrawn
The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keepin’ on like a bird that ____
Tangled up in blue
So now I’m goin’ back again
I got to get to her somehow
All the people we used to know
They’re an ________ to me now
Some are mathematicians
Some are carpenters’ wives
Don’t know how it all got started
I don’t know what they’re doin’ with their _____
But me, I’m still on the road
Headin’ for another joint
We always did feel the same
We just saw it from a different point of view
Tangled up in ____
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