Tangled Up in Blue - Take 3, Remake 2

Early one morning, the sun was shining
 I was laying in bed
 Wondering if she'd changed it all
 If her hair was still red
 Her folks, they said, our lives together
 Sure was gonna be rough
 They never did like mama's homemade dress
 Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough
 And I was standing on the side of the road
 Rain falling on my shoes
 Heading out for the East Coast
 Lord knows I've paid some dues getting through
 Tangled up in blue
 She was married when we first met
 Soon to be divorced
 I helped her out of a jam, I guess
 But I used a little too much force
 We drove that car as far as we could
 Abandoned it out west
 Split up on a dark, sad night
 Both agreeing it was best
 She turned around to look at me
 As I was walking away
 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 north woods
 Working as a cook for a spell
 But I never did like it all that much
 And one day the axe just fell
 So I drifted down to New Orleans
 Where I's lucky for to be employed
 Working for a while on a fishing boat
 Right outside of Delacroix
 But all the while I was alone
 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 working in a topless place
 And I stopped in for a beer
 I just kept looking at the sight of her face
 In the spotlight so clear
 And later on when the crowd thinned out
 I's just about to do the same
 She was standing there in back of my chair
 Said, "Tell me, don't I know your name?"
 I muttered something underneath my breath
 She studied the lines on my face
 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 silent type"
 Then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me
 Written by an Italian poet from the 13th century
 And every one of them words rang true
 And glowed like burning coal
 Pouring off of every page
 Like it was written in my soul, from me to you
 Tangled up in blue
 I lived with them on Montague Street
 In a basement down the stairs
 There was music in the cafés at night
 And revolution in the air
 Then he started into dealing with slaves
 And something inside of him died
 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 I became withdrawn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 keeping on, like a bird that flew
 Tangled up in blue
 So now I'm going back again
 I got to get her somehow
 All the people we used to know
 They're an illusion to me now
 Some are mathematicians
 Some are carpenter's wives
 Don't know how it all got started
 I don't what they do with their lives
 But me, I'm still on the road
 Heading for another joint
 We always did feel the same
 We just saw it from a different point of view
 Tangled up in blue