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And when finally the bottom fell out I became withdrawn The only thing I knew how to do Was to keep on keepin’ on like a bird that ____ Tangled up in blue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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