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7 <title>I'm Not There (
1956)
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13 <h1 class=
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1956)
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17 Recorded during
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"index.htm">The Basement Tapes
</a> sessions (
1967), and released (unofficially) on the Genuine Basement Tapes.
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18 Lyrics transcribed by J.W. Mahoney, with some emendations to make it sound more like a meaningful text (which I don't think it necessarily has to be; see
<a href=
"../faq.htm#I'mnotthere">this note
</a> for a short explanation of why).
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19 Here's a
<a href=
"im_not_there_lyrics.htm">different transcription
</a><br />
20 And just for the record:
“(
1956)
” is part of the title, not the
21 year of writing.
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22 Tabbed by Eyolf
Østrem
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25 <p>Capo
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27 <p>The Gs are regularly embellished by
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35 she'nay she's all the time in my
39 she cried both day and night,
41 I know it because it was there.
46 but she's down on her luck,
50 but to make him hard to buck,
57 I believe where she stopping
59 ifshe wants time to care,
61 I believe that she'd look upon
67 in a way she's on my way,
69 but I don't belong there.
73 No I don't belong to her,
74 I don't belong to anybody,
75 she's my prize forsaken angel
76 but she don't hear me cry.
78 She's a long-hearted mystic
79 and she can't carry on,
80 when I'm there she's alright,
81 but she's not, when I'm gone
85 Heaven knows that the answer
86 she's don't call in no-one,
87 she's the way, a sailing beautiful,
88 she's mine, for the one,
90 and I loss a heavy tension,
91 by temptation less it runs
92 but she don't allah me
93 but I'm not there, I'm gone.
97 Now I've cried tonight
98 like I cried the night before,
99 and I'm knees on the hassle,
100 but I dream about the door.
103 blind fate, with a tell,
104 it don't hang contonation
105 she's my ald fare-thee-well.
108 <pre class=
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109 Now when I'll treat the levee,
110 I was born to love her,
111 but she knows that the kingdom
112 weighs so high above her,
114 and I run but I race,
115 but it's not too fast a sleoun,
116 but I don't perceive her,
117 I'm not there, I'm gone.
121 Well it's all about deffusion
122 That I cry for her veil,
123 I don't need anybody now
126 And it's all affirmation
127 I recieve, but it's not,
128 She's a lone-hearted beauty
129 but she's gone like the spot
133 <pre class=
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134 Yes, she's gone like the rainbow
135 that was shining yesterday
136 but now she's a-home beside me
137 and I'd like her to stay
139 she's a bone-forsaking beauty
140 and it don't trust anyone,
141 and I wish I was beside her,
142 but I'm not there, I'm gone.
146 Well it's a too hard to stake-in,
147 and I don't bart-b'lieve
148 It's all bag for tebusing,
149 but she's hard, too hard to leave.
151 It's alone, it's a crime
152 the way she moult me around
153 was she told for to hate me
154 by this dong fortaken clown.
157 <pre class=
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158 Yes I believe that it's rightful,
159 oh I believe it in my mind,
160 I b'told like I said when I before
163 and she's all good to told her,
164 like I said, carry on,
165 I wish I was there to help her,
166 but I'm not there, I'm gone ...