My Back Pages lyrics by The Byrds
Title: My Back PagesArtist: Byrds
Composers: DYLAN ROBERT
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Crimson flames
tied through my ears
Rolling 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 wrecked prejudice
leaped forth
"Rip down all hate" I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
spoke from my skull
I dreamed
Romantic flanks
of musketeers
Foundation deep
somehow
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
Sisters fled by
confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow
Ah, but I was
so much older then
I'm younger than that now
Ah, but I was
so much older then
I'm younger than that now
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
