[ti:Jokerman(Album Version)] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Infidels] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jokerman - Bob Dylan [00:00.81]Written by:Bob Dylan [00:01.63]Standing on the water casting your bread [00:04.69]While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing [00:12.94]Distant ships sailing into the mist [00:15.45]You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing [00:23.14]Freedom just around the corner for you [00:29.57]But with truth so far off what good will it do [00:37.07]Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune [00:40.51]Bird fly high by the light of the moon [00:44.20]Oh oh oh Jokerman [00:51.89]So swiftly the sun sets in the sky [00:55.33]You rise up and say goodbye to no one [01:02.26]Fools rush in where angels fear to tread [01:05.63]Both of their futures so full of dread you don't show one [01:13.33]Shedding off one more layer of skin [01:19.77]Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within [01:27.26]Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune [01:30.58]Bird fly high by the light of the moon [01:34.27]Oh oh oh Jokerman [01:41.38]You're a man of the mountains you can walk on the clouds [01:44.51]Manipulator of crowds you're a dream twister [01:51.75]You're going to Sodom and Gomorrah [01:54.07]But what do you care Ain't nobody there would want marry your sister [02:03.01]Friend to the martyr a friend to the woman of shame [02:09.25]You look into the fiery furnace see the rich man without any name [02:16.88]Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune [02:19.00]Bird fly high by the light of the moon [02:23.94]Oh oh oh Jokerman [02:41.46]Well the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy [02:45.08]The law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers [02:52.08]In the smoke of the twilight on a milk-white steed [02:55.90]Michelangelo indeed could've carved out your features [03:03.33]Resting in the fields far from the turbulent space [03:09.70]Half asleep near the stars with a small dog licking your face [03:17.33]Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune [03:20.52]Bird fly high by the light of the moon [03:24.08]Oh oh oh Jokerman [03:41.69]Well the rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame [03:45.25]Preacherman seeks the same who'll get there first is uncertain [03:52.83]Nightsticks and water cannons tear gas padlocks [03:56.02]Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain [04:03.27]False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin [04:09.52]Only a matter of time 'til the night comes stepping in [04:17.27]Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune [04:20.59]Bird fly high by the light of the moon [04:24.14]Oh oh oh Jokerman [04:41.72]It's a shadowy world skies are slippery gray [04:45.65]A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet [04:52.28]He'll put the priest in his pocket put the blade to the heat [04:55.96]Take the motherless children off the street [04:58.59]And place them at the feet of a harlot [05:03.27]Oh Jokerman you know what he wants [05:10.40]Oh Jokerman you don't show any response [05:17.40]Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune [05:20.71]Bird fly high by the light of the moon [05:24.27]Oh oh oh Jokerman