BOB DYLAN - My Back Pages lyrics

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My back pages<br><br>Crimson flames tied through my ears<br>Rollin' high and mighty traps<br>Pounced with fire on flaming roads<br>Using ideas as my maps<br>We'll meet on edges, soon, said i<br>Proud 'neath heated brow.<br>Ah, but I was so much older then,<br>'m younger than that now.<br><br>Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth<br>Rip down all hate, I screamed<br>Lies that life is black and white<br>Spoke from my skull. I dreamed<br>Romantic facts of musketeers<br>Foundationed deep, somehow.<br>Ah, but I was so much older then,<br>I'm younger than that now.<br><br>Girls' faces formed the forward path<br>From phony jealousy<br>To memorizing politics<br>Of ancient history<br>Flung down by corpse evangelists<br>Unthought of, though, somehow.<br>Ah, but I was so much older then,<br>I'm younger than that now.<br><br>A self-ordained professor's tongue<br>Too serious to fool<br>Spouted out that liberty<br>Is just equality in school<br>Equality, I spoke the word<br>As if a wedding vow.<br>Ah, but I was so much older then,<br>I'm younger than that now.<br><br>In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand<br>At the mongrel dogs who teach<br>Fearing not that I'd become my enemy<br>In the instant that I preach<br>My existence led by confusion boats<br>Mutiny from stern to bow.<br>Ah, but I was so much older then,<br>I'm younger than that now.<br><br>Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats<br>Too noble to neglect<br>Deceived me into thinking<br>I had something to protect<br>Good and bad, I define these terms<br>Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.<br>Ah, but I was so much older then,<br>I'm younger than that now.