Bob Dylan - Tell Ol' Bill Lyrics
The river whispers in my earI've hardly a penny to my nameThe heavens have never seemed so nearAll my body glows with flame.The tempest struggles in the airAnd to myself alone I singIt could sink me then and thereI can hear the echoes ring.I tried to find one smilin' faceTo drive the shadow from my headI'm stranded in this nameless placeLyin' restless in a heavy bed.Tell me straight out if you willWhy must you torture me within?Why must you come down off your high hill?Throw my fate to the clouds and wind.Far away in a silent landSecret thoughts are hard to bearRemember me you'll understandEmotions we can never share.You trampled on me as you passedLeft the coldest kiss upon my browAll my doubts and fears have gone at lastI've nothing more to tell you now.I walk by tranquil lakes and streamsAs each new season's dawn awaitsI lay awake at night with troubled dreamsThe enemy is at the gate.Beneath the thunder-blasted treesThe words are ringin' off your tongueThe ground is hard in times like theseStars are cold, the night is young.The rocks are bleak, the trees are bareIron clouds go floatin' bySnowflakes falling in my hairBeneath the gray and stormy sky.The evenin' sun is sinking lowThe woods are dark, the town is tooThey''ll drag you down, they run the showAin't no tellin' what they'll do.Tell Ol' Bill when he comes homeAnything is worth a tryTell him that I'm not aloneThat the hour has come to do or die.All the world I would defyLet me make it plain as dayI look at you now and I sighHow could it be any other way? 
