Dylan, You Lied

Dylan told me a lie

Said nothing but the world to gain

Said no more rivets, said no more chains

Told me no more digging graves

With a voice like a tuft of smoke

How could I turn that faith away

When with every word he spoke

Another color entered the grey

He's thrown his arm around me

In some black dawn Milwaukee night

He laid his hand within mine

Like God lays His love into the light

With eyes of blue sapphire

I'd trail him anywhere he go

Whether through the hue of the twilight

Or to the carnage of down below

So I follow him through a song

And laid my hope upon his tongue

Pretty words that lured me onward

Finer words never sung

Dylan, you told me a lie
And it's to the down below we've come
Should I shadow you forward
Breathe your voice into my lungs
Cling to it now more than ever before
That the ceiling is higher than it's been
Splice myself open with vinyl
And let a poet's prayer bleed in