What Good Am I?
(Dylan)
From: "Oh Mercy" (1989)
Intro
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Lick
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What good am I if I'm like all the rest (lick)
If I just turn away, when I see how you're dressed (lick)
If I shut myself off so I can't hear you cry
What good am I? (lick)
What good am I if I know and don't do (lick)
If I see and don't say, if I look right through you (lick)
If I turn a deaf ear to the thunderin' sky
What good am I? (lick)
What good am I while you softly weep (lick)
And I hear in my head what you say in your sleep (lick)
And I freeze in the moment like the rest who don't try
What good am I? (lick)
What good am I then to others and me
If I've had every chance and yet still fail to see
If my hands are tied must I not wonder within
Who tied them and why and where must I have been?
What good am I if I say foolish things (lick)
And I laugh in the face of what sorrow brings (lick)
And I just turn my back while you silently die
What good am I? (lick)
Coda/Solo
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