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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">No Time to Think</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Street Legal</a> (1978)<br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  20 <p>Capo 1st fret (Original key Bb major)</p>
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  22 <p>The &ldquo;E/A&rdquo; chord (x02100) might as well be a mistake by someone in
  23 the muddy &ldquo;Street Legal&rdquo; sound &ndash; but it sounds good...</p>
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  28    D               A           E           A
  29 In death, you face life with a child and a wife
  30     E/A                      A           D        E
  31 Who sleep-walks through your dreams into walls.
  32          D          A             E            A
  33 You're a soldier of mercy, you're cold and you curse,
  34         E         A            D        E
  35 &quot;He who cannot be trusted must fall.&quot;
  36
  37 D/A   A     A/E   E          D/A   A  A/E    E
  38 Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety.
  39     D             A              E      A
  40 You fight for the throne and you travel alone
  41    D                   E
  42 Unknown as you slowly sink
  43                        A       Asus4    A
  44 And there's no time to think.
  45
  46 In the Federal City you been blown and shown pity,
  47 In secret, for pieces of change. -
  48 The empress attracts you but oppression distracts you
  49 And it makes you feel violent and strange.
  50
  51 Memory, ecstasy, tyranny, hypocrisy
  52 Betrayed by a kiss on a cool night of bliss
  53 In the valley of the missing link
  54 And you have no time to think.
  55
  56 Judges will haunt you, the country priestess will want you
  57 Her worst is better than best.
  58 I've seen all these decoys through a set of deep turquoise eyes
  59 And I feel so depressed.
  60
  61 China doll, alcohol, duality, mortality.
  62 Mercury rules you and destiny fools you
  63 Like the plague, with a dangerous wink
  64 And there's no time to think.
  65
  66 Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you
  67 Where the lion lies down with the lamb.
  68 I'd have paid off the traitor and killed him much later
  69 But that's just the way that I am.
  70
  71 Paradise, sacrifice, mortality, reality.
  72 But the magician is quicker and his game
  73 Is much thicker than blood and blacker than ink
  74 And there's no time to think.
  75
  76 Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us,
  77 when 're under his thumb.
  78 Madmen oppose him but your kindness throws him
  79 To survive if you play deaf and dumb.
  80
  81 Equality, liberty, humility, simplicity.
  82 You glance through the mirror and there's eyes staring clear
  83 At the back of your head as you drink
  84 And there's no time to think.
  85
  86 Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow
  87 Will offer their heads for a prayer.
  88 You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations
  89 Anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
  90
  91 Mercury, gravity, nobility, humility.
  92 You know you can't keep her and the water gets deeper
  93 That is leading you onto the brink
  94 But there's no time to think.
  95
  96 You've murdered your vanity, buried your sanity
  97 For pleasure you must now resist.
  98 Lovers obey you but they cannot sway you
  99 They're not even sure you exist.
 100
 101 Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism.
 102 Fools making laws for the breaking of jaws
 103 And the sound of the keys as they clink
 104 But there's no time to think.
 105
 106 The bridge that you travel on goes to the Babylon girl
 107 With the rose in her hair.
 108 Starlight in the East and you're finally released
 109 You're stranded but with nothing to share.
 110
 111 Loyalty, unity, epitome, rigidity.
 112 You turn around for one real last glimpse of Camille
 113 'Neath the moon shinin' bloody and pink
 114 And there's no time to think.
 115
 116 Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you
 117 But no, you will not be deceived.
 118 Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt,
 119 You can give but you cannot receive.
 120
 121 No time to choose when the truth must die,
 122 No time to lose or say goodbye,
 123 No time to prepare for the victim that's there,
 124 No time to suffer or blink
 125 And no time to think.
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