Released: May 1, 2000
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Bob Dylan
[Verse 1]
A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
There’s a woman on my lap and she’s drinking champagne
Got white skin, got assassin’s eyes
I’m looking up into the sapphire-tinted skies
I’m well dressed, waiting on the last train
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose
[Chorus]
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
[Verse 2]
This place ain’t doing me any good
I’m in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
Gonna take dancing lessons, do the jitterbug rag
Ain’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag
Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove
Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through
[Chorus]
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
[Verse 3]
I’ve been walking forty miles of bad road
If the Bible is right, the world will explode
I’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I can
Some things are too hot to touch
The human mind can only stand so much
You can’t win with a losing hand
Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet
Putting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street
[Chorus]
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
[Verse 4]
I hurt easy, I just don’t show it
You can hurt someone and not even know it
The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
Gonna get low down, gonna fly high
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I’m in love with a woman who don’t even appeal to me
Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake
I’m not that eager to make a mistake
[Chorus]
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
There’s a woman on my lap and she’s drinking champagne
Got white skin, got assassin’s eyes
I’m looking up into the sapphire-tinted skies
I’m well dressed, waiting on the last train
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose
[Chorus]
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
[Verse 2]
This place ain’t doing me any good
I’m in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
Gonna take dancing lessons, do the jitterbug rag
Ain’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag
Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove
Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through
[Chorus]
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
[Verse 3]
I’ve been walking forty miles of bad road
If the Bible is right, the world will explode
I’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I can
Some things are too hot to touch
The human mind can only stand so much
You can’t win with a losing hand
Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet
Putting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street
[Chorus]
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
[Verse 4]
I hurt easy, I just don’t show it
You can hurt someone and not even know it
The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
Gonna get low down, gonna fly high
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I’m in love with a woman who don’t even appeal to me
Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake
I’m not that eager to make a mistake
[Chorus]
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
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)
- 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