Released: May 30, 1988
Songwriter: Robert Hunter Bob Dylan
Producer: Bob Dylan
[Verse 1]
Stake my future on a hell of a past
Looks like tomorrow is coming on fast
Ain't complaining 'bout what I got
Seen better times, but who has not?
[Chorus]
Silvio
Silver and gold
Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold
Silvio
I gotta go
Find out something only dead men know
[Verse 2]
Honest as the next jade rolling that stone
When I come knocking don't throw me no bone
I'm an old boll weevil looking for a home
If you don't like it you can leave me alone
[Verse 3]
I can snap my fingers and require the rain
From a clear blue sky and turn it off again
I can stroke your body and relieve your pain
And charm the whistle off an evening train
[Verse 4]
I give what I got until I got no more
I take what I get until I even the score
You know I love you and furthermore
When it's time to go you got an open door
[Verse 5]
I can tell you fancy, I can tell you plain
You give something up for everything you gain
Since every pleasure's got an edge of pain
Pay for your ticket and don't complain
[Verse 6]
One of these days and it won't be long
Going down in the valley and sing my song
I will sing it loud and sing it strong
Let the echo decide if I was right or wrong
[Chorus]
Stake my future on a hell of a past
Looks like tomorrow is coming on fast
Ain't complaining 'bout what I got
Seen better times, but who has not?
[Chorus]
Silvio
Silver and gold
Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold
Silvio
I gotta go
Find out something only dead men know
[Verse 2]
Honest as the next jade rolling that stone
When I come knocking don't throw me no bone
I'm an old boll weevil looking for a home
If you don't like it you can leave me alone
[Verse 3]
I can snap my fingers and require the rain
From a clear blue sky and turn it off again
I can stroke your body and relieve your pain
And charm the whistle off an evening train
[Verse 4]
I give what I got until I got no more
I take what I get until I even the score
You know I love you and furthermore
When it's time to go you got an open door
[Verse 5]
I can tell you fancy, I can tell you plain
You give something up for everything you gain
Since every pleasure's got an edge of pain
Pay for your ticket and don't complain
[Verse 6]
One of these days and it won't be long
Going down in the valley and sing my song
I will sing it loud and sing it strong
Let the echo decide if I was right or wrong
[Chorus]
more tracks from the album
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)
From the albums
- Down in the Groove (1988)
- The Essential Bob Dylan (2000)
Bob Dylan popular songs
- 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