I’m Not There
Bob Dylan
This song is fairly simple. I play it open in standard tuning, but you play C-
chord shapes if you put a Capo on the 4th fret. The lyrics are what I hear from
the recording, in some parts they are hard to pick up. Enjoy.
Everything’s alright and she’s all the time in my
Neighborhood, she cries both
Day and night I know
Because I was there
It’s a milestone but she’s
Down on her luck and the
Day makes her lonely but to
Me, hard to buck, I was there
I believe that she’d stop him if she
Wants time to care, I
Believe that she’d look upon
Beside him to care and I
Go by the Lord and when she’s
On my way but I don’t belong there
No I don’t belong to her I don’t
Belong to anyone, she’s my
Christ forsaken angel but she don’t
Hear me cry
She’s a lone-hearted mystic and she
Can carry on when I’m
There she’s alright but when she’s
Not when I’m gone
Heaven knows that the answer she don’t
Call no one she’s the
Wave, foresailing beauty, for she’s
Mine, for the one and I
Lost her hesitation by
Temptation lest it runs, but she
Don’t follow me, but I’m
Not there, I’m gone
Now I’ve cried tonight like I
Cried the night before and I’ll
Feast on the eyes but I
Dream about the door
So long, Jesus, Savior, my
Faith worth to tell it don’t
Have consolation she’s my
Love fare thee well
Now, her smile is contagious I was
Born to love her but she
Knows that the kingdom waits so
High above her and I
Run but I race, but it’s
Not too fast or soon but
I don’t deceive her, I’m not
There, I’m gone
Well it’s all about diffusion that I
Cry for her fell I don’t
Need anybody now, beside
Me to tell and it’s
All affirmation I receive but it’s not she’s her
Own crowning beauty but she
Don’t like to spot it she
Won’t
Yes, she’s gone like the rainbow that
Shining yesterday but
Now she’s home beside me and I
Liked it if she stayed
She’s her own forsaken beauty and she
Don’t trust anyone and I
Wished I was beside her but I’m
Not there, I’m gone
Well it’s a too hard to stay and I
Don’t bother leave it’s all
Bad sorts abusing and she’s
Hard, too hard to leave
It’s a law, it’s a crime the way she
Boss me around but she
Told all to hate me but this
Dog, forsaken clown
Yes I believe that it’s rightful Oh I
Believe it in my mind I’ve been
Told like a said when I before
Carry on the crime and she’s
On like I told her like I
Said, carry on I wish
I was there to help her but I’m not
There, I’m gone