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From Bob Dylan's album: Another Side of Bob Dylan

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin^, high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We^,ll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud ^,neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I^,m younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I^,m younger than that now.

Girls^, faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I^,m younger than that now.

A self-ordained professor^,s tongue
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Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I^,m younger than that now.

In a soldier^,s stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I^,d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I^,m younger than that now.

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I^,m younger than that now.
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