โหลดเพลง mp3 Changing Of The Guards - Bob Dylan

Sixteen years,
Sixteen banners united over the field

Where the good shepherd grieves.

Desperate men, desperate women divided,
Spreading their wings neath the falling leaves.
Fortune calls.

I stepped forth from the shadows,
to the marketplace,
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power,
my last deal gone down.
Shes smelling sweet

like the meadows where she was born,

On midsummers eve, near the tower.

The cold-blooded moon.

The captain waits above the celebration

Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Whose ebony face is beyond communication.

The captain is down but still believing that
his love will be repaid.

They shaved her head.
She was torn between jupiter and apollo.

A messenger arrived with a black nightingale.
I seen her on the stairs and
I couldnt help but follow,
Follow her down past the fountain
where they lifted her veil.

I stumbled to my feet.
I rode past destruction in the ditches

With the stitches still mending

neath a heart-shaped tattoo.
Renegade priests and
treacherous young witches
Were handing out the
flowers that Id given to you.
The palace of mirrors
Where dog soldiers are reflected,
The endless road and the wailing of chimes,
The empty rooms
where her memory is protected,
Where the angels voices whisper
to the souls of previous times.

She wakes him up
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
Near broken chains,

mountain laurel and rolling rocks.
Shes begging to know what measures
he now will be taking.
Hes pulling her down and shes clutching on to
his long golden locks.
Gentlemen, he said,
I dont need your organization,

Ive shined your shoes,
Ive moved your mountains and marked your cards
But eden is burning,
either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage
for the changing of the guards.

Peace will come
With tranquility and splendor
on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward
when her false idols fall

And cruel death surrenders with
its pale ghost retreating

Between the king and the queen of swords.