TRACK TALK #241 4th Time Around

4TH TIME AROUND
ALBUM : Blonde On Blonde (1966)
Recorded : 14 Février 1966
Released : 16 Mai 1966

Première performance live : Hempstead (26 Février 1966)
Dernière performance live : Birmingham (10 Mai 2002)
Total : 43 fois.



Lyrics
When she said
“Don’t waste your words, they’re just lies”
I cried she was deaf
And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes
Then said, “What else you got left?”
It was then that I got up to leave
But she said, “Don’t forget
Everybody must give something back
For something they get”

I stood there and hummed
I tapped on her drum and asked her how come
And she buttoned her boot
And straightened her suit
Then she said, “Don’t get cute”
So I forced my hands in my pockets
And felt with my thumbs
And gallantly handed her
My very last piece of gum

She threw me outside
I stood in the dirt where ev’ryone walked
And after finding I’d
Forgotten my shirt
I went back and knocked
I waited in the hallway, she went to get it
And I tried to make sense
Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair
That leaned up against . . .

Her Jamaican rum
And when she did come, I asked her for some
She said, “No, dear”
I said, “Your words aren’t clear
You’d better spit out your gum”
She screamed till her face got so red
Then she fell on the floor
And I covered her up and then
Thought I’d go look through her drawer

And when I was through
I filled up my shoe
And brought it to you
And you, you took me in
You loved me then
You didn’t waste time
And I, I never took much
I never asked for your crutch
Now don’t ask for mine

Supposée être un plagia de Norwegian Wood. Et c'était l'inverse ?

En tout cas, Lennon n'a pas apprécié l'allusion aux béquilles.

Ce truc est une tuerie! Version studio ET live incontournables, j'écoute actuellement celle du Sidney '66.

J'ai tendance à la rapprocher de I Want You, curieusement! Peut être à cause de ce passage:
I stood there and hummed
I tapped on her drum and asked her how come
And she buttoned her boot
And straightened her suit
Then she said, “Don’t get cute”

Je sais pas, y a un truc!

Les arpèges et l'entrée de la batterie sur la version de BOB sont juste magnifiques!
Chanceux sont ceux qui y ont eu droit pendant le NET...

Voici ma version live favorite :

- manchester 17/05/66 (BS 4)

Jolie reprise de Ryley Walker :