Bob Dylan - No Time To Think Lyrics
In death, you face life with a child and a wifeWho sleep-walks through your dreams into walls.Youre a soldier of mercy, youre cold and you curse,He who cannot be trusted must fall.Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety.You fight for the throne and you travel aloneUnknown as you slowly sinkAnd theres no time to think.In the federal city you been blown and shown pity,In secret, for pieces of change.The empress attracts you but oppression distracts youAnd it makes you feel violent and strange.Memory, ecstasy, tyranny, hypocrisyBetrayed by a kiss on a cool night of blissIn the valley of the missing linkAnd you have no time to think.Judges will haunt you, the country priestess will want youHer worst is better than best.Ive seen all these decoys through a set of deep turquoise eyesAnd I feel so depressed.China doll, alcohol, duality, mortality.Mercury rules you and destiny fools youLike the plague, with a dangerous winkAnd theres no time to think.Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid youWhere the lion lies down with the lamb.Id have paid off the traitor and killed him much laterBut thats just the way that I am.Paradise, sacrifice, mortality, reality.But the magician is quicker and his gameIs much thicker than blood and blacker than inkAnd theres no time to think.Anger and jealousys all that he sells us,Hes content when youre under his thumb.Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws himTo survive it you play deaf and dumb.Equality, liberty, humility, simplicity.You glance through the mirror and theres eyes staring clearAt the back of your head as you drinkAnd theres no time to think.Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrowWill offer their heads for a prayer.You cant find no salvation, you have no expectationsAnytime, anyplace, anywhere.Mercury, gravity, nobility, humility.You know you cant keep her and the water gets deeperThat is leading you onto the brinkBut theres no time to think.Youve murdered your vanity, buried your sanityFor pleasure you must now resist.Lovers obey you but they cannot sway youTheyre not even sure you exist.Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism.Fools making laws for the breaking of jawsAnd the sound of the keys as they clinkBut theres no time to think.The bridge that you travel on goes to the babylon girlWith the rose in her hair.Starlight in the east and youre finally releasedYoure stranded but with nothing to share.Loyalty, unity, epitome, rigidity.You turn around for one real last glimpse of camilleneath the moon shinin bloody and pinkAnd theres no time to think.Bullets can harm you and death can disarm youBut no, you will not be deceived.Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt,You can give but you cannot receive.No time to choose when the truth must die,No time to lose or say goodbye,No time to prepare for the victim thats there,No time to suffer or blinkAnd no time to think.
