Pay In Blood - Bob Dylan

[00:01.36]Pay In Blood
[00:02.41]Bob Dylan
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[00:09.12]Well I'm grinding my life out, steady and sure
[00:14.42]Nothing more wretched than what I must endure
[00:18.74]I'm drenched in the light that shines from the sun
[00:23.07]I could stone you to death for the wrongs that you done
[00:28.09]Sooner or later you make a mistake,
[00:32.60]I'll put you in a chain that you never will break
[00:37.28]Legs and arms and body and bone
[00:41.80]I pay in blood, but not my own.
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[00:55.94]Night after night, Day after day
[01:00.59]They strip your useless hopes away
[01:04.94]The more I take the more I give
[01:09.57]The more I die the more I live
[01:13.67]I got something in my pocket make your eyeballs swim
[01:18.55]I got dogs could tear you limb from limb
[01:23.38]I'm circlin' around the Southern Zone
[01:27.99]I pay in blood, but not my own.
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[01:41.92]Low cards are what I've got
[01:46.45]But I'll play this hand whether I like it or not
[01:50.79]I'm sworn to uphold the laws of God
[01:55.55]You could put me out in front of a firing squad
[02:00.20]I've been out and around with the rising men
[02:04.64]Just like you my handsome friend
[02:09.00]My head's so hard, must be made of stone
[02:13.93]I pay in blood, but not my own.
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[02:27.54]Another politician pumping out the piss
[02:32.10]Another angry beggar blowing you a kiss
[02:36.71]You got the same eyes that your mother does
[02:41.43]If only you could prove who your father was
[02:46.03]Someone must to slipped a drug in your wine
[02:50.55]You gulped it down and you cross the line
[02:55.36]Man can't live by bread alone
[02:59.98]I pay in blood, but not my own.
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[03:13.39]How I made it back home, nobody knows
[03:18.17]Or how I survived so many blows
[03:22.80]I've been thru Hell, What good did it do?
[03:27.46]You bastard! I'm supposed to respect you!
[03:32.38]I'll give you justice, I'll fatten your purse
[03:36.85]Show me your moral virtue first
[03:41.28]Hear me holler and hear me moan
[03:46.17]I pay in blood but not my own.
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[04:00.03]You get your lover in the bed
[04:04.61]Come here I'll break your lousy head
[04:09.21]Our nation must be saved and freed
[04:13.37]You've been accused of murder, how do you plead?
[04:18.53]This is how I spend my days
[04:23.10]I came to bury, not to praise
[04:27.39]I'll drink my fill and sleep alone
[04:32.28]I play in blood, but not my own.
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