No Time To Think Lyrics - Street Legal - Bob Dylan

In death, you face life with a child and a wife 

Who sleep-walks through your dreams into walls. 

You're a soldier of mercy, and you're cold and you curse, 

"He who cannot be trusted must fall." 

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety. 

You fight for the throne and you travel alone 

Unknown as you slowly sink 

And there's no time to think. 

In the Federal City you been blown and shown pity, 

In secret, for pieces of change. 

The empress attracts you but oppression distracts you 

It makes you feel violent and strange. 

Memory, ecstasy, tyranny, hypocrisy 

Betrayed by a kiss on a cool night of bliss 

In the valley of the missing link 

And there's no time to think. 

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Judges will haunt you, the country priestess will want you 

Her worst is better than best. 

I've seen all these decoys through a set of deep turquoise eyes 

And I feel so depressed. 

China doll, alcohol, duality, mortality. 

Mercury rules you and destiny fools you 

Like the plague, with a dangerous wink 

And there's no time to think. 

Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you 

Where the lion lies down with the lamb. 

I'd have paid the traitor and killed him much later 

But that's just the way that I am. 

Paradise, sacrifice, mortality, reality. 

But the magician is quicker and his game 

Is much thicker than blood and blacker than ink 

And there's no time to think. 

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Vomit and jealousy's all that he sells us, 

He's contented when you're under his thumb. 

Madmen oppose him, your kindness throws him 

To survive it you play deaf and dumb. 

Equality, liberty, humility, simplicity. 

You glance through the mirror and there's eyes staring clear 

At the back of your head as you drink 

And there's no time to think. 

Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow 

Will offer their heads for a prayer. 

You can't find no salvation, have no expectations 

Anytime, anyplace, anywhere. 

Mercury, gravity, nobility, humility. 

You know you can't keep her and the water gets deeper 

That is leading you onto the brink 

And there's no time to think. 

You've murdered your vanity, burned your sanity 

For pleasure you must now resist. 

Lovers obey you but they cannot sway you 

They're not even sure you exist. 

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism. 

Fools making laws for the breaking of jaws 

And the sound of the keys as they clink 

And there's no time to think. 

The bridge that you travel on goes to the Babylon girl 

With the rose in her hair. 

Starlight in the East you finally released 

You're stranded with nothing to share. 

Loyalty, unity, epitome, rigidity. 

You turn around for one real last glimpse of Camille 

'Neath the moon shinin' bloody and pink 

And there's no time to think. 

Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you 

But no, you will not be deceived. 

Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, 

You can give but you cannot receive. 

No time to choose when the truth must die, 

No time to lose or say goodbye, 

No time to prepare for the victim that's there, 

No time to suffer or blink 

And no time to think.