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+more_label: Lyrics  
+  
+--more  
+  
+[VERSE 1]  
+I got on at Blood on the Tracks  
+Midwinter, mid-thirties, suitcase cracked  
+Tangled Up in Blue seats, torn upholstery  
+Every love’s a wound if you tell it closely  
+  
+He’s beside me, hat pulled low  
+Says names don’t matter, then says his does  
+Talks in riddles, coughs up smoke  
+Says truth is just a different joke  
+  
+[PRE-CHORUS]  
+I ask him straight, he laughs and stalls  
+Says “I contain multitudes” then denies it all  
+  
+[CHORUS]  
+First rule of Bob D  
+You don’t explain Bobby D  
+Second rule, you change the tune  
+Right when they start to listen  
+I’m riding shotgun with a ghost and a grin  
+Trying to work out where belief begins  
+Slow train coming, fast blood drying  
+Am I watching history  
+Or am I next in line?  
+  
+[VERSE 2]  
+He says Desire’s just a mask  
+Scarlet bandana, rolling cast  
+Hurricane stories, violin crime  
+Truth bends better when it rhymes  
+  
+Street-Legal sermons, horns too loud  
+Choir creeping in from the crowd  
+I say “Is this where faith kicks in?”  
+He says “Kid, faith is a different skin”  
+  
+[PRE-CHORUS]  
+He points ahead, track starts to glow  
+Says “You don’t find God — He boards you slow”  
+  
+[CHORUS]  
+First rule of B. D.  
+Never trust the phase  
+Third rule, burn the map  
+Fourth rule, praise and blame  
+Blood on the tracks, then a ticket stub  
+From heartbreak hotel to the Book of Job  
+Slow Train Coming, no return fare  
+I don’t know if I’m following  
+Or already there  
+  
+[BRIDGE – UNRELIABLE NARRATOR]  
+Maybe he’s real  
+Maybe he’s me  
+Maybe I read him into history  
+Charlemagne with a harmonica crown  
+Founding empires, burning them down  
+  
+He says “Saved isn’t irony”  
+I say “Neither is Shot of Love”  
+He says “You want sincerity?”  
+I say “Yeah — but not enough”  
+  
+[BREAK]  
+The train won’t stop  
+The questions stack  
+Every answer changes the track  
+  
+[VERSE 3]  
+He quotes scripture, then quotes himself  
+Leaves both unlabeled on the shelf  
+I say “Did you mean it?”  
+He says “At the time”  
+Which feels like truth  
+Or feels like a crime  
+  
+I check my reflection in the window glass  
+See Eli Mercer wearing someone else’s past  
+If he could pivot, vanish, return  
+What’s the lesson I’m meant to learn?  
+  
+[FINAL CHORUS]  
+First rule of influence  
+You swear you’re not influenced  
+Second rule, deny the debt  
+While you’re counting interest  
+Blood on the tracks, slow train hum  
+Faith or fracture, here it comes  
+He tips his hat, says “You’ll be fine”  
+Leaves me alone  
+With a voice that sounds like mine  
+  
+[OUTRO]  
+Train keeps rolling  
+Names decay  
+History’s just a long delay  
+If Dylan’s Charlemagne, what am I then?  
+Another passenger  
+Learning when  
+--more