Mr. Tambourine Man: An Interpretation

Nightmoth

MR. TAMBOURINE MAN: An Interpretation

• Music and original lyrics by Bob Dylan
• Interpretive lyrics by Gene Eric Mann
• Keyboards (harmonica, pan flute, piano) by Starry Nightmoth
• Drums generated via an E-313 KB
• Bass, rhythm and lead guitar, tambourine and voice by Gene Eric Mann

– Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
– I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
– Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
– In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come following you

Though I know the evening’s empire has returned to sand
Has vanished from my hand and blindly here I stand
But now I am not sleeping
My weariness amazes me, I’m branded on my feet
I have no one to meet – and the ancient empty streets
They’re all too dead for dreaming

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship
My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip
My numb toes long to wander
I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade
Into my own parade – cast your dancing spell my way
I’m ready to go under

Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging ’cross the sun
Not aimed at anyone, escaping on the run
There are no fences facing
And if you hear a voice that chimes with skipping reels of rhyme
To tambourines in time – wouldn’t pay it any mind
A shade this clown is chasing

Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen pines
Far from the reach of sorrow
To dance above the diamond land with one free waving hand
A silhouette of man – circled by the circus sand
Forget today ’til morrow