Title: Precious Angel
Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: True Disciple (Toronto, April 19, 1980) (Track #4)
Duration: 05:20
Label: Sony Music Entertainment
Precious angel, under the sun,
How was I to know you'd be the one
To show me I was blinded, to show me I was gone
How weak was the foundation I was standing upon?
Now there's spiritual warfare and flesh and blood breaking down.
Ya either got faith or ya got unbelief and there ain't no neutral ground.
The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived
When the truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe?
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Ya know I just couldn't make it by myself.
I'm a little too blind to see.
My so-called friends have fallen under a spell.
They look me squarely in the eye and they say, "All is well."
Can they imagine the darkness that will fall from on high
When men will beg God to kill them and they won't be able to die?
Sister, lemme tell you about a vision I saw.
You were drawing water for your husband, you were suffering under the law.
You were telling him about Buddha, you were telling him about Mohammed
in the same breath.
You never mentioned one time the Man who came and died a criminal's death.
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Ya know I just couldn't make it by myself.
I'm a little too blind to see.
Precious angel, you believe me when I say
What God has given to us no man can take away.
We are covered in blood, girl, you know our forefathers were slaves.
Let us hope they've found mercy in their bone-filled graves.
You're the queen of my flesh, girl, you're my woman, you're my delight,
You're the lamp of my soul, girl, and you torch up the night.
But there's violence in the eyes, girl, so let us not be enticed
On the way out of Egypt, through Ethiopia, to the judgment hall of Christ.
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Ya know I just couldn't make it by myself.
I'm a little too blind to see.
BOB DYLAN
True Disciple
The Legendary Lost Live Album + Bonus Tracks
Toronto Canada
1980 April 19
Bootleg :Judah Records - BC CD 011
Tracklist:
01.Gotta Serve Somebody
02.Covenant Woman
03.When You Gonna Break up
04.Precious Angel
05.Slow Train Coming
06.Solid Rock
07.In The Garden
08.Ain't Gonna Go To Hell
1-8 Massey Hall Toronto Canada 1980 April 19 (Live)
09.Magic
10.Heart Of Mine (Studio Outtake)
11.Watered - Down Love (Studio Outtake)
9-11 Clove Recorder Studios April 1981 LA US
12.Shoot Of Love (Studio Outtake)
Rundown Studios April 1981
13.Coverdown / Breakthrough (Live)
Montreal 1980 April 20