The New Basement Tapes

Released: November 11, 2014

Songwriter: Elvis Costello Bob Dylan

Producer: T-Bone Burnett

They say that today makes up for what yesterday lacked
And it must be some old day, for that is a fact
Can't talk to nobody, don’t know just how they’ll react
Weigh the silver and gold, be precise and exact

How can today make up for yesterday
For if we break up, I guess you would stay

Buffalo Bill wouldn't have known what to do
If he got a just one look, just one good look at you
And I don't know what to do either
Just wanna tell you it's neither
Tom said “Don’t take her”, Judas said “Leave her”

How can today make up for yesterday
For if we break up, I guess you would stay

So Golden Tom said to poor Silver Judas
"It’s so hard to say who's the worst of the two of us
So don’t brood, there's no fraud in this feud
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know what to do."

How can today make up for yesterday
For if we break up, I wish you would stay

How can today make up for yesterday
For if we break up, I wish you would stay

A 5 musician group that came together to make Lost On The River, an album compiled together using unrecorded lyrics written by Bob Dylan as part of his 1975 project, *The Basement Tapes.

The collaborative supergroup

- Elvis Costello

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