Masters of War - Live at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA - May 1963

Come you masters of war

You that build the big guns

You that build the death planes

You that build all the guns

You that hide behind walls

You that hide behind desks

I just want you to know

I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'

But build to destroy

You play with my world

Like it's your little toy

You put a gun in my hand

And you hide from my eyes

And you turn and run farther

When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old

You lie and deceive

A world war can be won

You want me to believe

But I see through your eyes

And I see through your brain

Like I see through the water

That runs down my drain

You fasten all the triggers

For the others to fire

Then you set back and watch

When the death count gets higher

You hide in your mansion'

As young people's blood

Flows out of their bodies

And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear

That can ever be hurled

Fear to bring children

Into the world

For threatening my baby

Unborn and unnamed

You ain't worth the blood

That runs in your veins

How much do I know

To talk out of turn?

You might say that I'm young

You might say I'm unlearned

But there's one thing I know

Though I'm younger than you

That even Jesus would never

Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question

Is your money that good?

Will it buy you forgiveness?

Do you think that it could?

I think you will find

When your death takes its toll

All the money you made

Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die

And your death will come soon

I'll follow your casket

About the pale afternoon

And I'll watch while you're lowered

Down to your deathbed

And I'll stand over your grave

'Til I'm sure that you're dead

Bobby Dylan will be back in the second half of the concert

Along with Don Stoke and the Lily Brothers, and Jessie Fuller

Right now we'd like to take a fifteen minute intermission

Wait, before you get up, wait, wait, wait, wait

When you come back to the second half, we'd like to ask everyone

To sit somewhere in front of the curtain

That you see pulled back to the sides

'Cause we're gonna try and pull that

And maybe it'll make it sound a little better in this half of the gym

Right now, let's take about a fifteen to twenty minute-