Like a Rolling Stone

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Once upon a time you dressed so fine
 Threw the bums a dime in your prime
 Didn't you?
 People call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
 You thought they were all
 Kidding' you?
 You used to laugh about
 Everybody that was hangin' out
 Now you don't talk so loud
 Now you don't seem so proud
 About having to be scrounging
 Your next meal
 How does it feel?
 How does it feel?
 To be without a home?
 Like a complete unknown?
 Like a rolling stone?
 ♪
 Ah, you've gone to the finest school
 All right, Miss Lonely
 But you know you only used to get
 Juiced in it
 Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street
 And now you're gonna have to get
 Used to it
 You say you never compromise
 With the mystery tramp but now you realise
 He's not selling any alibis
 As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
 And say
 "Do you want to make a deal?"
 How does it feel?
 How does it feel?
 To be on your own?
 With no direction home?
 A complete unknown?
 Like a rolling stone?
 ♪
 Ah, you never turned around to see the frowns
 On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did
 Tricks for you
 Never understood that it ain't no good
 You shouldn't let other people
 Get your kicks for you
 You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
 Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
 Ain't it hard when you discover that?
 He really wasn't where it's at
 After he took from you everything he could steal?
 How does it feel?
 How does it feel?
 To have on your own?
 With no direction home?
 Like a complete unknown?
 Like a rolling stone?
 ♪
 Ah, princess on the steeple and all the
 Pretty people they're all drinkin', thinkin' that they
 Got it made
 Exchanging all precious gifts
 But you'd better take your diamond ring
 You'd better pawn it, babe
 You used to be so amused
 At Napoleon in rags
 And the language that he used
 Go to him now, he calls you
 You can't refuse
 When you ain't got nothin'
 You got nothin' to lose
 You're invisible now, you got no secrets
 To conceal
 How does it feel?
 Ah, how does it feel?
 To be on your own?
 With no direction home?
 Like a complete unknown?
 Like a rolling stone?
 

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Duration
06:08
Tempo
96 BPM

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