Like a Rolling Stone

Once upon a time you dressed so fine

Threw the bums a dime in your prime

Didn't you?

People call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"

You thought they were all

Kidding' you?

You used to laugh about

Everybody that was hangin' out

Now you don't talk so loud

Now you don't seem so proud

About having to be scrounging

Your next meal

How does it feel?

How does it feel?

To be without a home?

Like a complete unknown?

Like a rolling stone?

Ah, you've gone to the finest school

All right, Miss Lonely

But you know you only used to get

Juiced in it

Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street

And now you're gonna have to get

Used to it

You say you never compromise

With the mystery tramp but now you realise

He's not selling any alibis

As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes

And say

"Do you want to make a deal?"

How does it feel?

How does it feel?

To be on your own?

With no direction home?

A complete unknown?

Like a rolling stone?

Ah, you never turned around to see the frowns

On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did

Tricks for you

Never understood that it ain't no good

You shouldn't let other people

Get your kicks for you

You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat

Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat

Ain't it hard when you discover that?

He really wasn't where it's at

After he took from you everything he could steal?

How does it feel?

How does it feel?

To have on your own?

With no direction home?

Like a complete unknown?

Like a rolling stone?

Ah, princess on the steeple and all the

Pretty people they're all drinkin', thinkin' that they

Got it made

Exchanging all precious gifts

But you'd better take your diamond ring

You'd better pawn it, babe

You used to be so amused

At Napoleon in rags

And the language that he used

Go to him now, he calls you

You can't refuse

When you ain't got nothin'

You got nothin' to lose

You're invisible now, you got no secrets

To conceal

How does it feel?

Ah, how does it feel?

To be on your own?

With no direction home?

Like a complete unknown?

Like a rolling stone?