Lyrics: Bob Dylan
Music: Bob Dylan
Played by Mark Karan with Phil Lesh & Friends in 2012.
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin� high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
We�ll meet on edges, soon, said I
Proud �neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I�m younger than that now
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
Rip down all hate, I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull, I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I�m younger than that now
Girls� faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I�m younger than that now
A self-ordained professor�s tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
�Equality,� I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I�m younger than that now
In a soldier�s stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I�d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I�m younger than that now
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I�m younger than that now