[ti:Changing of the Guards] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Changing of the Guards - Bob Dylan [00:04.27]Written by:Bob Dylan [00:08.54]Sixteen years [00:12.03]Sixteen banners united over the field [00:20.16]Where the good shepherd grieves [00:24.17]Desperate men desperate women divided [00:31.96]Spreading their wings neath the falling leaves [00:39.88]Fortune calls [00:43.48]I stepped forth from the shadows to the marketplace [00:51.58]Merchants and thieves [00:53.58]Hungry for power my last deal gone down [00:59.08]She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born [01:06.71]On midsummers eve near the tower [01:26.56]The cold blooded moon [01:30.25]The captain waits above the celebration [01:34.44]Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid [01:42.14]Whose ebony face is beyond communication [01:49.93]The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid [01:57.68]They shaved her head [02:01.05]She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo [02:05.33]A messenger arrived with a black nightingale [02:13.11]I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow [02:21.00]Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil [02:44.17]I stumbled to my feet [02:47.61]I rode past destruction in the ditches [02:52.31]With the stitches still mending neath a heart shaped tattoo [02:59.85]Renegade priests and treacherous young witches [03:08.07]Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you [03:15.05]The palace of mirrors [03:18.85]Where dog soldiers are reflected [03:22.83]The endless road and the wailing of chimes [03:30.41]The empty rooms where her memory is protected [03:38.66]Where the angels voices whisper to the souls of previous times [04:01.36]She wakes him up [04:04.77]Forty eight hours later the sun is breaking [04:09.13]Near broken chains mountain laurel and rolling rocks [04:16.79]She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking [04:24.75]He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks [04:32.40]Gentlemen he said [04:36.06]I don't need your organization I've shined your shoes [04:43.64]I've moved your mountains and marked your cards [04:47.39]But eden is burning either brace yourself for elimination [04:55.18]Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards [05:18.58]Peace will come [05:22.13]With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire [05:30.20]But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall [05:37.53]And cruel death surrenders with it's pale ghost retreating [05:45.25]Between the king and the queen of swords