The guilty undertaker sighs,
The lonesome organ grinder cries,
The silver saxophones say I should refuse you.
The cracked bells and washed-out horns
Blow into my face with scorn,
But it's not that way,
I wasn't born to lose you.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.
The drunken politician leaps
Upon the street where mothers weep
And the saviors who are fast asleep,
They wait for you.
And I wait for them to interrupt
Me drinkin' from my broken cup
And ask me to
Open up the gate for you.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.
Now all my fathers, they've gone down
True love they've been without it.
But all their daughters put me down
'Cause I don't think about it.
Well, I return to the Queen of Spades
And talk with my chambermaid.
She knows that I'm not afraid
To look at her.
She is good to me
And there's nothing she doesn't see.
She knows where I'd like to be
But it doesn't matter.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.
Now your dancing child with his Chinese suit,
He spoke to me, I took his flute.
No, I wasn't very cute to him,
Was I?
But I did it, though, because he lied
Because he took you for a ride
And because time was on his side
And because I . . .
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.
Bob Dylan - I want you (03:08)
from blonde on blonde. one of his best songs: The guilty undertaker sighs, The lonesome organ
grinder cries, The silver saxophones say I should refuse you. The cracked bells and washed-out horns
Blow into my face with scorn, But it's not that way, I wasn't born to lose you. I want you, I want
you, I want you so bad, Honey, I want you. The drunken politician leaps Upon the street where
mothers weep And the saviors who are fast asleep, They wait for you. And I wait for them to
interrupt Me ...
even a singer like dylan desperate to escape icon status wouldn't put out crap... that's just his escape from owning up to a bad experimental album...
Autor: brandojitsu123
2
this album is so misunderstood and underappreciated
Autor: curtisrunstedler
3
quit bragging...
Autor: morgantown1
4
this is so obviously a joke album i mean its called self portrait then you look at the cover i mean what the fucks that supposed to be it looks nothing like Dylan-but its hilarious.
And weirdly this is album is actually pretty darn good
Autor: venakew
5
very much -- being sung by a twenty-year-old with an average voice
it even has the "tom" reference in it.