after the blackbird sings

I'm finding it hard
Just to keep up with someone
Who's hanging onto nothing
Only to lose what's never mine

And I'm finding it hard
Just to keep up with something
That's hanging on to nothing
To keep all these chains tied 
And in line, in line

Pretty Angel
She bites the hands of the lion
Ties it up with ribbon
Watches as hound dogs
Bang on her drums, drums

It's so
It's so easy for you 
To love nobody
It's so easy for you
 'Cause you're not tryin' anymore

I seen this girl
She had her hands full of lightning
Rolled it down to me
A Lolita smile
With a thorn in her eyes

Now she, she spun the world
Up on the edge of a pearl
A carnivals girl
Up on a ferris wheel forever
Forever

It's so easy for you to love nobody
It's so easy for you,
'Cause you're not tryin' anymore
Just don't try anymore

Now she, she howled like an owl
Only to fall like a sparrow
And lay beside the scarecrow
But after the Blackbird sings
Is the song 
The song

It's just so easy
It's just so easy 
For you to love nobody
It's just so easy for you
'Cause you're not tryin' anymore

Words and Music by Jakob Dylan, Tobi Miller, Barrie Maguire, Peter Yanowitz, Rami Jaffee
(p) & (c) 1992

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