Like a Rolling Stone

Once upon a time you dressed so fine

You threw the bums a dime in your prime

Didn't you?

People'd call, say: "Beware, doll, you're bound to fall"

You thought they were all

Kiddin' you

You used to laugh about

Everybody that was hanging out

Now you don't talk so loud

Now you don't seem so proud

About having to be scrounging

For your next meal

How does it feel?

How does it feel

To be without a home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?

Oh, you've gone to the finest school, alright, miss lonely

But you know you only used to get

Juiced in it

Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street

And now you're gonna have to get

Used to it

You say you'd never compromise

With the mystery tramp, but now you realize

He's not selling any alibis

As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes

And say: "Do you want to

Make a deal?"

How does it feel?

How does it feel

To be on your own

With no direction home

A complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?

Oh, you never turned around to see the frowns

On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did

Tricks for you

You never understood that it ain't no good

You shouldn't let other people get your

Kicks for you

You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat

Who carried on his shoulder a siamese cat

Ain't it hard when you discover that

He really wasn't where it's at

After he took from you everything

He could steal?

How does it feel?

How does it feel

To hang on your home

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people

They're all drinking thinking that they

Got it made

Exchanging all their precious gifts

But you'd better take your diamond ring

You'd better pawn it, baby

You used to be so amused

At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used

Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse

When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose

You're invisible now, you got no secrets

To conceal

How does it feel?

How does it feel

To be on your own

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?