JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "My Back Pages" adalah lagu Bob Dylan yang dimuat dalam album Another Side of Bob Dylan.
Album tersebut merupakan keluaran tahun 1964 yang berisi 11 lagu.
Lagu "My Back Pages" dibawakan Bob Dylan dengan diiringi gitar akustik.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Isis - Bob Dylan
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "My Back Pages" dari Bob Dylan.
Capo 3
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
C Am Em
Crimson flames tied through my ears
F G C
Rollin' high and mighty traps
C Am Em C
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
F Em G
Using ideas as my maps
F Am G C
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Am F G
Proud 'neath heated brow.
C Am C
Ah, but I was so much older then,
F G C
I'm younger than that now.
[Instrumental]
G G G G
[Verse 2]
C Am Em
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
F G C
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
C Am Em
Lies that life is black and white
F G
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Am Em
Romantic facts of musketeers
F G
Foundationed deep, somehow.
C Am Em F
Ah, but I was so much older then,
G C
I'm younger than that now.
[Verse 3]
C Am Em
Girls' faces formed the forward path
F G C
From phony jealousy
C Am Em
To memorizing politics
F G
Of ancient history
Am Em
Flung down by corpse evangelists
F G
Unthought of, though, somehow.
C F C
Ah, but I was so much older then,
F G C
I'm younger than that now.
[Verse 4]
C Am Em
A self-ordained professor's tongue
F G C
Too serious to fool
C Am Em
Spouted out that liberty
F G
Is just equality in school
Am Em
"Equality," I spoke the word
F G
As if a wedding vow.
C Am
Ah, but I was so much older then,
F G C
I'm younger than that now.
[Verse 5]
C Am Em
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
F G C
At the mongrel dogs who teach
C Am Em
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
F G
In the instant that I preach
Am F C
My existence led by confusion boats
Am Em G
Mutiny from stern to bow.
C Am F C
Ah, but I was so much older then,
G C
I'm younger than that now.
[Verse 6]
C Am Em
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
F G C
Too noble to neglect
C Am Em
Deceived me into thinking
F G
I had something to protect
Am Em
Good and bad, I define these terms
F G
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
C Am F C
Ah, but I was so much older then,
G C
I'm younger than that now.