Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning
And the first thing that I saw
Was the sun through yellow curtains
And a rainbow on the wall
Blue, red, green and gold to welcome you
Crimson crystal beads to beckon

I woke up in a Soho doorway
A policeman knew my name
He said "You can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away"

And I don't remember church bells or the money I put down
On the white picket fence and boardwalk of the house at the edge of town
But boy do I remember the strain of her refrain
The nights we spent together, and the way she called my name

Ran into a juke joint when I heard a guitar scream
The notes were turning blue as days as a little dream
As the music played I saw my life turn around
That was the day before love came to town.

Downstairs at Danny's all-star joint
They got a juke box that goes doyt-doyt
The vice is nice, they stay in the back all day
But when the nighttime comes ... hey-hey

If you're down in Jacksonville
Stay away from Rainbow Grill
It's a juke joint, it's a dive
The people there ain't nothin' but jive
It's a haven for the hookers
It's a redneck paradise...

People get ready
For the train to Jordan
Picking up passengers
From coast to coast
Faith is the key
Open the doors and board them
There's room for all
among the loved the most

Now there's two TRAINS runnin' - on that line
One train's me, and the other's a friend of mine
You know it would be all right, be just fine
If the woman took one train, and left the other behind

I hear the train a comin'
It's rollin' 'round the bend,
And I ain't seen the sunshine
Since, I don't know when
I'm stuck in Folsom Prison
And time keeps draggin' on
But that train keeps a-rollin'
On down to San Antone

Sunshine came softly a-through my a-window today
Could've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my ways
It'll take time, I know it but in a while
You're gonna be mine, I know it, we'll do it in style
'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine

Running straight outta time just like an old man's fiddle
Looking for the dance; gonna meet me in the middle
I'm never gonna figure out the way that I feel
Running straight outta time, but my love's still real

Time i on my side
Yes it is

[Edited on 3/21/2015 by DougMacKenzie]

Half of my life, I spent doin' TIME for some other f****s crime,
The other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine.

I thought to myself, what could that mean
Am I going crazy, or is this just a dream
Now wait a minute
I know I'm lying in a field of grass somewhere
So it's all in my head
And then I heard her say one more time
Spill the wine dig that girl

I'm talking with a tight red sweater
I'm feelin' like Eddie Vedder
Only twice as cool when she starts winkin'
I'm just so easily led when the little head does the thinkin'

Well Mack the finger said to Louie the King
I got forty red white and blue shoe strings
And a thousand telephones that don't ring
Do you know where I can get ride of these things
And Louie the King said let me think for a minute son
And he said yes I think it can be EASILY done
Just take everything down to Highway 61.

So I took to the highway
And I kept to myself
Just a lookin' and hopin' to find
Some solutions, some answers, someway to exist
All this stuff in the back of my mind

Take the highway
Lord knows I've been gone too long
Lot of sad days, yeah
One day you'll turn around
and I'll be gone
And the time has finally come
for me to pack my bags and walk away
Hear me say...

And I had a lover
It's so hard to risk another these days
These days
Now if I seem to be afraid
To live the life I have made in song
Well it's just that I've been losing so long

Am I losing my own way back home
Am I losing a good friend that I've known
Am I losing won't you tell me how I've sinned
Why am I losing one of my best friends

All my FRIENDS came to see me this year
And I was there to have them care, whoa
And maybe we've gone away
We can come back any old day
If we find how to rely on time

I sure ain't got no home
I seem to find love where I ramble
And when it's time to go
I hear that voice again, sayin'
Find your way back
Find your way back to her heart

So now I'm goingback again
I got to get her somehow
All the people we used to know
They're an illusion to me now
Some are mathematicians
Some are carpenter's wives
Don't know how it all got started
I don't what they're doing with their lives
But me I'm still on the road
Heading for another joint
We always did feel the same
We just saw it from a different point of view
Tangled up in Blue.

Roll another one
Just like the other one
You've been holding on to it
And I sure will like a hit
Don't bogart that JOINT my friend
Pass it over to me
Don't bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to me

Think I'll roll another number for the road
I feel able to get under any load
Though my feet aren't on the ground
I've been standing on the sound
Of some open hearted people coming down

They got a place down Kentucky
Right down near Ohio
Where you can watch the planes at night
People line up to watch each flight

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio

To keep from going crazy, I got to sing my song
Got a whole lot of lovin', And baby,
that's why I'm coming home to your love
Coming home, yeah

Whippoorwill's singing
Soft summer breeze
Makes me think of my baby
I left down in New Orleans
I left down in New Orleans

Magnolia, you sweet thing
You're driving me mad
Got to get back to you, babe
You're the best I ever had
You're the best I ever had

You whisper "Good morning"
So gently in my ear
I'm coming home to you, babe
I'll soon be there
I'll soon be there

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.