My Back Pages / B.J. Blues / Baby What You Want Me to Do - Alternate Version

Crimson flames tied through my years
 Rollin' high and mighty trapped
 Countless violent flaming roads
 Using ideas as my map
 "We'll meet on edges soon," said I
 Proud 'neath heated brow
 Ahh, but I was so much older then
 I'm younger than that now
 Half wracked prejudice leaped forth
 "Rip down all hate," I screamed
 Lies that life is black and white
 Spoke from my skull, I dreamed
 Romantic flanks of musketeers
 Foundation deep, somehow
 Ahh, but I was so much older then
 I'm younger than that now
 In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
 At the mongrel dogs who teach
 Fearing not I'd become my enemy
 In the instant that I preach
 Sisters fled by confusion boats
 Mutiny from stern to bow
 Ahh, but I was so much older then
 I'm younger than that now
 Ahh, but I was so much older then
 I'm younger than that now
 My guard stood hard when abstract threats
 Too noble to neglect
 Deceived me into thinking
 I had something to protect
 Good and bad, I define these terms
 Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
 Ahh, but I was so much older then
 I'm younger than that now
 Songwriters
 BOB DYLAN