[ti:Shelter From The Storm] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Songs for Japan] [by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:09.900] I was in another lifetime one of toil and blood [00:14.270] When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud [00:18.710] I came in from the wilderness a creature void of form [00:23.150] "Come in" she said [00:24.150] "I'll give you shelter from the storm". [00:35.780] And if I pass this way again you can rest assured [00:40.030] I'll always do my best for her on that I give my word [00:44.410] In a world of steel-eyed death and men who are fighting to be warm [00:47.910] "Come in" she said [00:49.970] "I'll give you shelter from the storm". [00:58.120] Not a word was spoke between us there was little risk involved [01:02.990] Everything up to that point had been left unresolved [01:07.310] Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm [01:11.180] "Come in" she said [01:12.490] "I'll give you shelter from the storm". [01:24.930] I was burned out from exhaustion buried in the hail [01:30.060] Poisoned in the bushes and blown out on the trail [01:34.240] Hunted like a crocodile ravaged in the corn [01:38.370] "Come in" she said [01:39.620] "I'll give you shelter from the storm". [01:51.060] Suddenly I turned around and she was standing there [01:55.000] With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair [01:59.370] She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns [02:03.870] "Come in" she said [02:04.930] "I'll give you shelter from the storm". [02:16.370] Now there's a wall between us something there's been lost [02:20.680] I took too much for granted got my signals crossed [02:25.060] Just to think that it all began on a long-forgotten morn [02:29.490] "Come in" she said [02:30.560] "I'll give you shelter from the storm". [02:41.560] Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount [02:46.250] But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts [02:50.310] And the one-eyed undertaker he blows a futile horn [02:54.680] "Come in" she said [02:55.870] "I'll give you shelter from the storm". [03:07.500] I've heard newborn babies wailing like a mourning dove [03:11.870] And old men with broken teeth stranded without love [03:15.750] Do I understand your question man is it hopeless and forlorn [03:20.250] "Come in" she said [03:21.560] "I'll give you shelter from the storm". [03:32.690] In a little hilltop village they gambled for my clothes [03:37.250] I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose [03:41.370] I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn [03:45.870] "Come in" she said [03:47.000] "I'll give you shelter from the storm". [03:58.120] Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line [04:02.810] Beauty walks a razor's edge someday I'll make it mine [04:06.750] If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born [04:11.000] "Come in" she said [04:12.250] "I'll give you shelter from the storm".