Released: September 7, 1965
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Bob Johnston
[Verse 1]
You got a lot of nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning
[Verse 2]
You got a lot of nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that’s winning
[Verse 3]
You say I let you down
You know it’s not like that
If you’re so hurt
Why then don’t you show it?
[Verse 4]
You say you lost your faith
But that’s not where it’s at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it
[Verse 5]
I know the reason
That you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd
You’re in with
[Verse 5]
Do you take me for such a fool
To think I’d make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don’t know to begin with
[Verse 6]
You see me on the street
You always act surprised
You say “How are you? Good luck!”
But you don’t mean it
[Verse 7]
When you know as well as me
You’d rather see me paralyzed
Why don’t you just come out once
And scream it
[Verse 8]
No, I do not feel that good
When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief
Perhaps I’d rob them
[Verse 9]
And now I know you’re dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don’t you understand
It’s not my problem
[Verse 10]
I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you
[Verse 11]
Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you
You got a lot of nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning
[Verse 2]
You got a lot of nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that’s winning
[Verse 3]
You say I let you down
You know it’s not like that
If you’re so hurt
Why then don’t you show it?
[Verse 4]
You say you lost your faith
But that’s not where it’s at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it
[Verse 5]
I know the reason
That you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd
You’re in with
[Verse 5]
Do you take me for such a fool
To think I’d make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don’t know to begin with
[Verse 6]
You see me on the street
You always act surprised
You say “How are you? Good luck!”
But you don’t mean it
[Verse 7]
When you know as well as me
You’d rather see me paralyzed
Why don’t you just come out once
And scream it
[Verse 8]
No, I do not feel that good
When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief
Perhaps I’d rob them
[Verse 9]
And now I know you’re dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don’t you understand
It’s not my problem
[Verse 10]
I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you
[Verse 11]
Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you
- Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits (1967)
- Realization (1968)
- Biograph (1985)
- The Essential Bob Dylan (2000)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 (2015)
- Murder Most Foul
- Blowin’ in the Wind
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- All Along the Watchtower
- Like a Rolling Stone
- Make You Feel My Love
- Hurricane
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Desolation Row
- Tangled Up in Blue
- Masters of War
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
- Girl from the North Country
- Tempest
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Ballad of a Thin Man
- Visions of Johanna
- I Contain Multitudes
- To Fall in Love with You
- Shelter from the Storm