Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue (The Bootleg Series alternate take) lyrics

[Verse 1] Early one morning the sun was shining He was laying in bed Wond'ring if she'd changed at all If her hair was still red Her folks they said their lives together Sure was gonna be rough They never did like Mama's homemade dress Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough And he was standing at the side of the road Rain falling on his shoes Heading out for the old East Coast Lord knows he paid some dues, getting through Tangled up in blue [Verse 2] She was married when they first met Soon to be divorced He helped her out of a jam I guess But he used a little too much force And they drove that car as far as they could Abandoned it out west And split up on a dark sad night Both agreeing it was best And she turned around to look at him As he was walking away She said "This can't be the end We'll meet on another day, on the avenue Tangled up in blue." [Verse 3] He had a job in the great north woods Working as a cook for a spell But he never did like it all that much And one day the axe just fell So he drifted down to L.A Where he reckoned he tried his luck Working for a while in an airplane plant Loading cargo onto a truck But all the while he was alone The past was close behind He seen a lot of women But she never escaped his mind and he just grew Tangled up in blue [Verse 4] She was working in a topless place And I stopped in for a beer I just kept looking at the side of her face In a spotlight so clear And later on as the crowd thinned out I's about to do the same She was standing there, back of my chair Saying "Tell me, what's your name?" I muttered something underneath my breath She studied the lines of my face I must admit I felt a little uneasy When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoes Tangled up in blue [Verse 5] She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe "Thought you'd never say hello", she said "You look like the silent type" Then she opened up a book of poems And handed it to me Written by an Italian poet From the thirteenth century And every one of them words rang true And flowed like burning coal Pouring off of every page Like it was written in my soul from me to you Tangled up in blue [Verse 6] He was always in a hurry Too busy or too stoned And everything that she ever planned Just had to be postponed He thought they were successful She thought they were blessed With objects and material things But I never was impressed And when it all came crashing down I became withdrawn The only thing I knew how to do Was to keep on keeping on like a bird that flew Tangled up in blue [Verse 7] So now I'm going back again I got to get to her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are doctor's wives Don't know how it all got started Don't know 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