I'm Not There - Bob Dylan

Things are crashing down

She's all too tight

In my neighborhood

She cried both day and night

I know it because it was there

It's a milestone

But she's down on her luck

And the day makes her lonely

But to make it hard to buck, now and then

I believe that she'd stop him

If she would start to care

I believe that she'd look upon

His side that used to care

And I'd go by the Lord

Anywhere she's on my way

But I don't belong there

No I don't belong to her

I don't belong to any body

She's my Christ-forsaken angel

But she don't hear me cry

She's a lone-hearted mystic

And she can't carry on

When I'm there, she's all right

But she's not when I'm gone

Heaven knows that the answer

She don't calling no one

She's the way, forsaken beauty

For she's mine, for the one

And I lost her, hesitation

By temptation as it runs

But she don't holler me

But I'm not there, I'm gone

Now I'll cry tonight

Like I cried the night before

And I'm knees on the hassle

But I'll dream about the door

It's so long, she's forsaken

By her faith, worse to tell

It don't have contonation

She smiles, fare thee well

Now when I treat to leave 'er

I was born to love her

But she knows that the kingdom awaits

So high above her

And I run a better race

But it's not too fast still

But I don't perceive her

I'm not there, I'm gone

Well it's all about diffusion

And I cry for her veil

I don't need anybody now

Beside me to tell

And it's all affirmation

I receive but it's not

She's a lone-hearted beauty

But she don't like a spot

And she calls

Yeah, she's gone like the rain

Below the shining yesterday

But now she's home beside me

And I'd like her here to stay

She's a lone, forsaken beauty

And it don't trust anyone

And I wish I was beside her

But I'm not there, I'm gone

Well, it's too hard to stay here

And I don't want to leave

It's so bad, for so few

See, but she's a heart too hard to need

It's alone, it's a crime

The way she mauls me around

But she don't fall to hate me

But tears are gone, a painted clown

Yes, I believe that it's rightful

Oh, I believe it in my mind

I've been told like I said one night before

Carry on the cryin'

And the sole gypsy told her

Like I said, carry on

I wish I was there to help her

But I'm not there, I'm gone