I'm Not There lyrics

Then all right, and then she's all the time in my neighborhood

She cried both day and night I know it because it was then

It's a milestone but she's down on her luck

And she mainly so alone in a bar to make him hard to buck

That was then

I believe where she'd stop him if she wants time to care

I believe that she'd look upon inside him to care

And I go by the Lord and the way she's on my way

But I don't belong there

No, I don't belong to her, I don't belong to any choir

She's my prize forsaken angel but she don't hear me cry

She's a long-hearted mystic and she can't carry on

When I'm there she's alright, but when she's not when I'm gone

Heaven knows that the answer she don't con no one

She's the way for sailing beautiful, she's mine for the one

And I lost a heavy tension by temptation as it runs

But she don't holler me, but I'm not there, I'm gone

Now I'll cry tonight, like I cried the night before

And I'm leased on the highs, but I'll dream about the door

She's alone, she's forsaken, by fate worst to tell

It don't hang proximation, she smiles fairly well

Now, when I'll choose to live it, I was born to love her

But she knows that the kingdom waits so high above her

And I run, but I race, but it's not too fast to slim

But I can't perceive her, I'm not there, I'm gone

Well, it's all about diffusion as I cry for her veil

I don't need anybody now beside me to tell

And it's all revelation, I recede, but it's not

She's a long-bodied beauty but she don't like to smile

And she phones

Yeah, she's gone like the rainbow that shinin' yesterday

But now she's home beside me and I'd like to hear her stay

She's a lone forsaken beauty, and it don't trust anyone

I wish I was beside her, but I'm not there, I'm gone

Well, it's a-too hard to stake him, and I don't bother leave

It's so vague, but amusing, when she's a-hard, too hard to leave

It's a lode, it's a crime, the way she won't be around

But she don't phone to hate me but just-a long to make a clown

Yes I believe that it's rightful, oh I believe it in my mind

I been told like I said right before, carry on the grind

And she's gone, yes she told her like I said, carry on

I wish I was there to help her, but I'm not there, I'm gone

• Artist:Bob Dylan
• Album:The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW (2014)