[ti:Talkin' World War III Blues(Live Album Version)] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:The Bootleg Volume 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert At Philharmonic Hall] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talkin' World War III Blues (Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964) - Bob Dylan [00:13.95]One time ago a crazy dream came to me [00:16.59]I dreamt I was walkin' into World War Three [00:19.04]Went to the doctor the very next day [00:21.20]To see what kinda words he could say [00:23.61]He said"It was a bad dream" [00:34.50]I said [00:34.93]"Hold it Doc a World War passed through my brain" [00:37.61]He said"Nurse get your pad the boy's insane" [00:40.97]He grabbed my arm I said"Ouch" [00:43.92]As I landed on the psychiatric couch [00:46.29]He said"Tell me about your dream" [00:58.50]Well the whole thing started at three o'clock fast [01:01.37]It was all over by quarter past [01:03.84]I was down in the sewer with some little lover [01:06.64]When I peeked out from a manhole cover [01:08.96]Wondering who turned the lights on us [01:20.85]Well I got up and I walked around [01:23.17]Up and down the lonesome town [01:25.17]I stood on wondering which way to go [01:27.50]I lit a cigarette on a parking meter [01:29.55]And walked on down the road [01:31.15]It was a normal day [01:41.31]Well I rung me fallout shelter bell [01:43.41]And I leaned my head and I gave a yell [01:47.17]"Give me a string bean I'm a hungry man" [01:50.57]Shotgun fired and away I ran [01:54.09]I don't blame them too much though [01:55.59]They didn't know me [02:01.56]Down the corner by the hot-dog stand [02:02.81]I seen a man I said"Howdy friend [02:06.33]I guess there's just us two" [02:08.93]He screamed a bit and away he flew [02:11.59]Thought I was a Communist [02:24.45]Well I spied me a girl before she could leave [02:26.28]I said"Let's go play Adam and Eve" [02:28.40]I took her by the hand [02:30.06]And my heart was thumpin' [02:31.47]When she said [02:32.32]"Hey man you crazy or something" [02:35.00]You seen what happened last time they started [02:47.00]Well I remember seein' some newspaper ad [02:49.20]So I turned on my Conelrad [02:52.62]But I didn't pay the Con Ed bill [02:54.87]So the radio didn't work so well [02:57.26]Turned on my record player [02:59.86]It was mathon fen dollars [03:06.56]"Tell your ma tell your pa [03:22.14]Well I seen me a Cadillac window uptown [03:24.55]There was nobody around [03:26.36]I got into the driver's seat [03:29.05]And I drove down 42nd street [03:32.43]In my Cadillac [03:34.55]Good car to drive after a war [03:48.52]I was feelin' kinda lonesome [03:50.05]And blue I needed somebody to talk to [03:53.09]So I called up the operator of [03:54.92]Time just to hear a voice of some kind [03:58.46]"When you hear the beep [04:00.90]It will be three o'clock" [04:03.11]She said that for over an hour and I hung up [04:14.70]Well the doctor interrupted me just about then [04:17.03]Sayin'"Hey I've been havin' the same old dreams [04:19.57]But mine was a little different you see [04:22.12]I dreamt the only person left [04:23.85]After the war was me [04:25.96]I didn't see you around" [04:28.65]Nobody looks like you [04:40.50]Well now time passed and now it seems [04:42.71]Everybody's having them dreams [04:45.02]Everybody sees [04:46.46]Their self walkin' around with no one else [04:51.62]Half the people can be [04:52.66]Part right all of the time [04:53.94]And Some of the people can be all right [04:58.16]Part of the time but [05:00.95]All the people can't be all alright [05:02.25]All of the time [05:05.06]All the people can't be all alright [05:06.61]All of the time [05:09.65]Because Abraham said that [05:16.81]"I'll let you be in my dreams [05:18.69]If I can be in your dream [05:20.10]I said that