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“We Better Talk This Over” by Bob Dylan 🇺🇸 (born 24 May 1941)
I think we better talk this over
Maybe when we both get sober
You’ll understand I’m only a man
Doin’ the best that I can.
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This situation can only get rougher.
Why should we needlessly suffer?
Let’s call it a day, go our own different ways
Before we decay.
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You don’t have to be afraid of looking into my face,
We’ve done nothing to each other time will not erase.
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I feel displaced, I got a low-down feeling
You been two-faced, you been double-dealing.
I took a chance, got caught in the trance
Of a downhill dance.
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Oh, child, why you want to hurt me?
I’m exiled, you can’t convert me.
I’m lost in the haze of your delicate ways
With both eyes glazed.
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You don’t have to yearn for love, you don’t have to be alone,
Somewhere’s in this universe there’s a place that you can call home.
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I guess I’ll be leaving tomorrow
If I have to beg, steal or borrow.
It’d be great to cross paths in a day and a half
Look at each other and laugh.
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But I don’t think it’s liable to happen
Like the sound of one hand clappin’.
The vows that we kept are now broken and swept
’Neath the bed where we slept.
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Don’t think of me and fantasize on what we never had,
Be grateful for what we’ve shared together and be glad.
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Why should we go on watching each other through a telescope?
Eventually we’ll hang ourselves on all this tangled rope.
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Oh, babe, time for a new transition
I wish I was a magician.
I would wave a wand and tie back the bond
That we’ve both gone beyond.