"My Back Pages" Bob Dylan's 30th Annual

My all time favorite Byrds tune...written by Bob Dylan.  In this case performed by Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan & George Harrison

My Back Pages

Written by Bob Dylan
Performed by: Roger Mcguinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, & George Harrison

Crimson flames tied through my years
Throwing high and mighty tracks
Countless fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
 

Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull I dreamed
Romantic flights of musketeers
  Foundation deep, somehow.
 

Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Girls' faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
 

Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Self-ordained professor's tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.

Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
During night I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My sisters fled by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
 

Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
 

Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.