Title: She's Your Lover Now
Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: Acetates On The Tracks, Vol. 2 (Track #11)
Duration: 07:58
Label: Sony Music Entertainment
The pawnbroker roared
Also, so, so did the landlord
The scene was so crazy, wasn't it?
Both were so glad
To watch me destroy what I had
Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn't it?
Why didn't you just leave me if you didn't want to stay?
Why'd you have to treat me so bad?
Did it have to be that way?
Now you stand here expectin' me to remember somethin' you forgot to say
Yes, and you, I see you're still with her, well
That's fine 'cause she's comin' on so strange, can't you tell?
Somebody had better explain
She's got her iron chain
I'd do it, but I, I just can't remember how
You talk to her
She's your lover now.
I already assumed
That we're in the felony room
But I ain't a judge, you don't have to be nice to me
But please tell that
To your friend in the cowboy hat
You know he keeps on sayin' ev'rythin' twice to me
You know I was straight with you
You know I've never tried to change you in any way
You know if you didn't want to be with me
That you could . . . didn't have to stay.
Now you stand here sayin' you forgive and forget. Honey, what can I say?
Yes, you, you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can't you reach?
I see you kiss her on the cheek ev'rytime she gives a speech
With her picture books of the pyramid
And her postcards of Billy the Kid
(Why must everybody bow?)
You better talk to her 'bout it
You're her lover now.
Oh, ev'rybody that cares
Is goin' up the castle stairs
But I'm not up in your castle, honey
It's true, I just can't recall
San Francisco at all
I can't even remember El Paso, uh, honey
You never had to be faithful
I didn't want you to grieve
Oh, why was it so hard for you
If you didn't want to be with me, just to leave?
Now you stand here while your finger's goin' up my sleeve
An' you, just what do you do anyway? Ain't there nothin' you can say?
She'll be standin' on the bar soon
With a fish head an' a harpoon
An' a fake beard plastered on her brow
You'd better do somethin' quick
She's your lover now.
Tracks:
Highway 61 sessions:
Please Crawl Out Your window (3 takes)
Desolation Row
Ballad of A Thin Man (2 takes)
I Wanna Be Your Lover
Don't Wanna Be Your Partner (1)
Visions Of Johanna (2 takes)(2)
She's Your Lover Now (3)
Instrumental (Dylan on guitar)
Working On A Guru (4)
Tomorrow Is A Long Time (5)
Nobody 'Cept You (6)
Highway 61 sessions CBS studios, NYC, June/July 1965
(1) CBS Studio A, NY 10-20-65
(2) CBS Studio A, NY 10-30-65
(3) BOB outtake, Music Row, Nashville, TN 1/21/66
(4) Harrison session CBS Studio B, NY 5/01/70
(5) CBS Studios, NYC May-July 1970
(6) Village Studio, LA, CA Nov. 2, 1973
Review:
A full 74 minute disc offering various studio outtakes of the 60s and early 70s. This disc centers on the Highway 61 studio outtakes, and the studio recordings shortly after it's release. There's nothing new to be found here that hasn't been on boot before, but there are some great outtakes gathered together in one place. This is the second release of a series that was intended (as the title implies) to chronicle acetate recordings of studio outtakes. However, the project loses momentum after this release. The covers are generic scenes of roadways. While captivating, they have no Dylan tie-in.