When The Deal Goes Down

Album: Modern Times (2006)
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  • In the still of the night, in the world's ancient light
    Where wisdom grows up in strife
    My bewildered brain, tolls in vain
    Through the darkness on the pathways of life
    Each invisible prayer is like a cloud in the air
    Tomorrow keeps turning around
    We live and we die, we know not why
    But I'll be with you when the deal goes down

    We eat and we drink, we feel and we think
    Far down the street we stray
    I laugh and I cry and I'm haunted by
    Things I never meant nor wished to say
    The midnight rain follows the train
    We all wear the same thorny crown
    Soul to soul, our shadows roll
    And I'll be with you when the deal goes down

    Well the moon gives light and shines by night
    And I scarcely feel the glow
    We learn to live and then we forgive
    Or the road we're bound to go
    More frailer than the flowers, these precious hours
    That keep us so tightly bound
    You come to my eyes like a vision from the skies
    And I'll be with you when the deal goes down

    Well I picked up a rose and it poked through my clothes
    I followed the winding stream
    I heard the deafening noise, I felt transient joys
    I know they're not what they seem
    In this earthly domain, full of disappointment and pain
    You'll never see me frown
    I owe my heart to you, and that's sayin' it true
    And I'll be with you when the deal goes down Writer/s: BOB DYLAN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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