Bob Dylan — My Back Pages lyrics

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Crimson flames tied through my ears
RollinЂ™ high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
WeЂ™ll meet on edges, soon, said i Proud Ђ™neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
Ђ™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,
IЂ™m younger than that now.
GirlsЂ™ 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,
IЂ™m younger than that now.
A self-ordained professorЂ™s tongue
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,
IЂ™m younger than that now.
In a soldierЂ™s stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that IЂ™d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My existence led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
IЂ™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,
IЂ™m younger than that now.