Released: May 16, 1966
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Bob Johnston
[Verse 1]
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Everybody knows that baby’s got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
[Chorus]
She takes just like a woman, yeah she does
She makes love just like a woman, yeah she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
[Verse 2]
Queen Mary, she’s my friend
Yes, I believe I’ll go see her again
Nobody has to guess that baby can’t be blessed
'Til she finally sees that she’s like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls
[Chorus]
She takes just like a woman, yes
She makes love just like a woman, yeah she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
[Bridge]
Yeah, it was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what’s worse
Is this pain in here
I can’t stay in here
[Verse 3]
Ain’t it clear that I just can’t fit
Yes, I believe it’s time for us to quit
But when we meet again, introduced as friends
Please don’t let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world
[Chorus]
Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do
You make love just like a woman, yes, you do
Then you ache just like a woman
But ya' break just like a little girl
[Instrumental]
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Everybody knows that baby’s got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
[Chorus]
She takes just like a woman, yeah she does
She makes love just like a woman, yeah she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
[Verse 2]
Queen Mary, she’s my friend
Yes, I believe I’ll go see her again
Nobody has to guess that baby can’t be blessed
'Til she finally sees that she’s like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls
[Chorus]
She takes just like a woman, yes
She makes love just like a woman, yeah she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
[Bridge]
Yeah, it was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what’s worse
Is this pain in here
I can’t stay in here
[Verse 3]
Ain’t it clear that I just can’t fit
Yes, I believe it’s time for us to quit
But when we meet again, introduced as friends
Please don’t let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world
[Chorus]
Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do
You make love just like a woman, yes, you do
Then you ache just like a woman
But ya' break just like a little girl
[Instrumental]
The Essential Bob Dylan
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Positively 4th Street
- Lay Lady Lay
- If Not for You
- Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
- I Shall Be Released
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- Jokerman
- Dark Eyes
- Silvio
- Everything Is Broken
- Not Dark Yet
- Things Have Changed
- Thunder on the Mountain
- Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
- Tangled Up in Blue
- I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
- It Ain’t Me Babe
- Shelter from the Storm
- Like a Rolling Stone
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- Maggie’s Farm
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Blowin’ in the Wind
- Make You Feel My Love
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- Hurricane
- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
- All Along the Watchtower
- Blind Willie McTell
- Mississippi
- Gotta Serve Somebody
- Just Like a Woman
- Forever Young (Demo)
- Blonde on Blonde (1966)
- Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits (1967)
- The Concert For Bangladesh (1971)
- More American Graffiti: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979)
- Biograph (1985)
- The Essential Bob Dylan (2000)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue (2002)
- 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