[ti:Caribbean Wind] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Side Tracks] [by:] [offset:0] [00:15.47]She was the rose of Sharon from paradise lost [00:19.11]From the city of seven hills near the place of the cross [00:23.12]I was playing a show in Miami in the theater of divine comedy [00:30.77]Told her about Jesus told her about the rain [00:34.08]She told me about the jungle where her brothers were slain [00:37.77]By the man who invented iron and disappeared so mysteriously [00:45.04]Was she a child or an angel Did we go too far [00:48.91]Did we snap at the bait Did we follow a star [00:52.67]Through a hole in the wall to where the long arm of the law cannot reach [01:00.55]Could I've been used and played as a pawn [01:04.00]It certainly was possible as the gay night wore on [01:07.67]When men bathed in perfume and practiced the hoax of free speech [01:14.98]And them Caribbean winds still blow from Nassau to Mexico [01:22.74]Fanning the flames in the furnace of desire [01:29.73]And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free [01:37.38]Bringing everything that's near to me nearer to the fire [02:01.39]Sea breeze blowin' there's a hellhound loose [02:05.07]Arabian men who have escaped from the noose [02:08.72]Preaching faith and salvation waiting for the night to arivee [02:15.78]He was well connected but her heart was a snare [02:19.58]And she had left him to die in there [02:23.14]He was goin' down slow just barely staying alive [02:30.77]The cry of the peacock flies buzz my head [02:34.77]Ceiling fan broken there's a heat in my bed [02:38.09]Street band playing"Nearer My God to Thee" [02:45.54]We met at the station where the mission bells ring [02:48.79]She said"I know what you're thinking but there ain't a thing [02:52.67]You can do about it so let us just agree to agree" [03:00.11]And them Caribbean winds still blow from Nassau to Mexico [03:07.97]Fanning the flames on the furnace of desire [03:15.06]And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free [03:22.54]Bringing everything that's near to me nearer to the fire [03:46.62]Atlantic City by the cold grey sea [03:49.67]Hear a voice crying"Daddy" I always think it's for me [03:53.35]But it's only the silence in the buttermilk hills that call [04:01.12]Every new messenger bringing evil report [04:04.30]'Bout armies on the march and time that is short [04:08.11]And famines and earthquakes and train wrecks and the tearin' down of the wall [04:15.50]Did you ever have a dream that you couldn't explain [04:19.06]Ever meet your accusers face to face in the rain [04:22.75]She had lone brown eyes that I won't forget as long as she's gone [04:30.12]I see the screws breaking loose see the devil pounding on tin [04:34.32]I see a house in the country being torn from within [04:37.88]I can hear my ancestors calling from the land from beyond [04:45.25]And them Caribbean winds still blow from Nassau to Mexico [04:53.01]Fanning the flames in the furnace of desire [05:00.08]And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free [05:07.70]Bringing everything that's near to me nearer to the fire