Girl From The North Country - My Back Pages Lyrics

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Girl From The North Country the Musical - My Back Pages Lyrics


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


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Girl From The North Country the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Sign On The Window
Went To See The Gypsy
Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)
Slow Train
License To Kill
I Want You
Like A Rolling Stone
Make You Feel My Love
You Ain't Going Nowhere
Jokerman
Sweetheart Like You
True Love Tends To Forget
Girl from the North Country
Hurricane
Idiot Wind
Duquesne Whistle
Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)
Is Your Love In Vain?
Forever Young
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