BETTYE LAVETTE
9. Things Have Changed (Bob Dylan)
Bettye LaVette (lead voc), Steve Jordan (d, perc), Larry Campbell (g), Leon Pendarvis (elp, p), Pino Palladino (b)
Brooklyn Recording, Brooklyn, NY
von: Things Have Changed (Verve/Universal, CD, 2018)
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Steve Jordan, Bettye LaVette und Keith Richards (der auf zwei Tracks des Albums Gitarre spielt) bei den Sessions (RollingStone.com)
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Things Have Changed
Bob Dylan (*1941), Version von Bettye LaVette
A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
Sittin’ on a strange man’s lap and drinking champagne
He’s got white skin, got assassin’s eyes
I’m looking up into the sapphire-tinted skies
I’m all dressed up, 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
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m way out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
Forty miles of bad road
If the Bible is right, the whole damn world’s gonna explode
I’ve been trying to get just as far away from myself as I can
Some things are just too hot to touch
The human mind can only stand so much
You just can’t win with a losing hand
Lot of water under the bridge, a lot of other stuff too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m just passing through
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m way out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
This place here ain’t doing me any good
It’s got me all [??] up, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
Gonna take dancing lessons, gonna learn the jitterbug rag
I ain’t takin’ no shortcuts, I might even dress in drag
Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove
Feel like falling in love with the very next man I meet
Grab him by the hand and go running all down the street
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m way out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
I hurt easy, but I just don’t show it
You gonna hurt someone and not even know it
The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
Gonna get low down, fly high
All the truth in the world ain’t nothin’ but one big lie
I’m in love with a man that don’t even appeal to me
Some folks would just go and jump in the lake
I ain’t so eager to make that kinda mistake
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, but I’m way out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
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