Lirik dan Chord Lagu My Own Version of You - Bob Dylan

Album tersebut merupakan album panjang terbarunya setelah Triplicate yang diluncurkan pada 2017.

Album Rough and Rowdy Ways dirilis di bawah naungan label Columbia Records.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "My Own Version of You" dari Bob Dylan.

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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All through the summers, into January
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I've been visiting morgues and monasteries
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Looking for the necessary body parts
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Limbs and livers and brains and hearts

[Turnaround 1]
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I'll bring someone to life, is what I wanna do
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I wanna create my own ?version? of? you

[Verse 2]
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Well, it must?be the winter?of my discontent
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I wish you'd've taken me with you wherever you went
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They talk all night and they talk all day
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Not for a minute do I believe anything they say

[Turnaround 2]
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I'm gon' bring someone to life, someone I've never seen
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You know what I mean, you know exactly what I mean

[Verse 3]
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I'll take the Scarface Pacino and The Godfather Brando
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Mix it up in a tank and get a robot commando
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If I do it upright and put the head on straight
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I'll be saved by the creature that I create

[Verse 4]
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I'll get blood from a cactus, gunpowder from ice
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I don't gamble with cards and I don't shoot no dice
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If you look at my face with your sightless eye
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Can you cross your heart and hope to die?

[Turnaround 3]
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I'll bring someone to life, someone for real
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Someone who feels the way that I feel

[Verse 5]
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I study Sanskrit and Arabic to improve my mind
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I wanna do things for the benefit of all mankind
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I say to the willow tree, "Don't weep for me"
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I'm saying: “To hell to all things that I used to be

[Verse 6]
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Well, I get into trouble, then I hit the wall
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No place to turn, no place at all
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I'll pick a number between a-one and two
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And I ask myself, "What would Julius Caesar do?"

[Turnaround 4]
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I will bring someone to life in more ways than one
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Don't matter how long it takes, it'll be done when it's done

[Verse 7]
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I'm gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell
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Like Liberace, like St. John the Apostle
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I'll play every number that I can play
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I'll see you maybe on Judgment Day

[Verse 8]
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After midnight, if you still wanna meet
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I'll be at the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street
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Two doors down, not that far a walk
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I'll hear your footsteps, you won't have to knock

[Turnaround 5]
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I'll bring someone to life, balance the scales
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I'm not gonna get involved any insignificant details

[Verse 9]
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You can bring it to St. Peter, you can bring it to Jerome
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You can bring it all the way over, bring it all the way home
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Bring it to the corner where the children play
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You can bring it to me on a silver tray

[Turnaround 6]
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I'll bring someone to life, spare no expense
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Do it with decency and common sense

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[Verse 10]
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Can you tell me what it means, to be or not to be?
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You won't get away with fooling me
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Can you help me walk that moonlight mile?
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Can you give me the blessings of your smile?

[Turnaround 7]
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I'll bring someone to life, use all of my powers
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Do it in the dark, in the wee, small hours

[Verse 11]
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I can see the history of the whole human race
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It's all right there, it's carved into your face
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Should I break it all down? Should I fall on my knees?
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Is there light at the end of the tunnel, can you tell me, please?

[Verse 12]
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Stand over there by the cypress tree
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Where the Trojan women and children were sold into slavery
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Long before the first Crusade
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Way back before England or America were made

[Verse 13]
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Step right into the burning hell
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Where some of the best-known enemies of mankind dwell
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Mr. Freud with his dreams, Mr. Marx with his axe
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See the raw hide lash rip the skin from their backs

[Verse 14]
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Got the right spirit, you can feel it, you can hear it
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You've got what they call the immortal spirit
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You can feel it all night, you can feel it in the morn'
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It creeps in your body the day you were born

[Verse 15]
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One strike of lightning is all that I need
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And a blast of electricity that runs at top speed
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Shimmy your ribs, I'll stick in the knife
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Gonna jumpstart my creation to life

[Turnaround 8]
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I wanna bring someone to life, turn back the years
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Do it with laughter and do it with tears