Released: July 1, 1968
Songwriter: Bob Dylan Richard Manuel
Producer: John Simon
We carried you in our arms on Independence Day
And now you'd throw us all aside and put us all away
Oh, what dear daughter 'neath the sun could treat a father so?
To wait upon him hand and foot and always tell him "No"
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so alone
And life is brief
It was all so very painless
When you ran out to receive
All that false instruction
Which we never could believe
And now the heart is filled with gold
As if it was a purse
But, oh, what kind of love is this
Which goes from bad to worse?
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so alone
And life is brief
We pointed you the way to go
And scratched your name in sand
Though you just thought it was nothing more
Than a place for you to stand
I want you to know that while we watched
You discovered no one would be true
That I myself was among
The ones who thought
It was just a childish thing to do
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so alone
And life is brief
And now you'd throw us all aside and put us all away
Oh, what dear daughter 'neath the sun could treat a father so?
To wait upon him hand and foot and always tell him "No"
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so alone
And life is brief
It was all so very painless
When you ran out to receive
All that false instruction
Which we never could believe
And now the heart is filled with gold
As if it was a purse
But, oh, what kind of love is this
Which goes from bad to worse?
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so alone
And life is brief
We pointed you the way to go
And scratched your name in sand
Though you just thought it was nothing more
Than a place for you to stand
I want you to know that while we watched
You discovered no one would be true
That I myself was among
The ones who thought
It was just a childish thing to do
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so alone
And life is brief
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From the albums
- Music From Big Pink (1968)
- Music from Big Pink (2000 Reissue) (2000)
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- I Shall Be Released
- Tears of Rage
- This Wheel’s on Fire
- Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever [Live at the Academy of Music]
- When I Paint My Masterpiece [Live at the Academy of Music]
- Long Distance Operator
- Like a Rolling Stone [Live at the Academy of Music]
- Tears of Rage (Alternate Take)
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- Don’t Ya Tell Henry [Live at the Academy of Music]
- Down in the Flood [Live]
- Down in the Flood [Live at the Academy of Music]
- When I Paint My Masterpiece (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
- I Shall Be Released [Live at the Academy of Music]
- This Wheel’s on Fire [Live at the Academy of Music]