Changing of the Guards-Bob Dylan

[00:00.00] Sixteen years [00:13.44]Sixteen banners united over the field [00:21.54]Where the good shepherd grieves [00:25.47]Desperate men, desperate women divided [00:33.33]Spreading their wings 'neath falling leaves. [00:41.13]Fortune calls [00:44.82]I stepped forth from the shadows to the marketplace [00:52.80]Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down [01:00.27]She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born [01:07.95]On midsummer's eve near the tower. [01:27.63]The cold-blooded moon [01:31.23]The captain waits above the celebration [01:35.61]Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid [01:43.14]Whose ebony face is beyond communication [01:50.97]The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid. [01:58.59]They shaved her head [02:02.07]She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo [02:06.39]A messenger arrived with a black nightingale [02:14.07]I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow [02:21.99]Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil. [02:44.97]I stumbled to my feet [02:48.45]I rode past destruction in the ditches [02:53.13]With the stitches still mending beneath a heart-shaped tattoo [03:00.60]Renegade priests and treacherous young witches [03:08.85]Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you. [03:15.75]The palace of mirrors [03:19.59]Where dog soldiers are reflected [03:23.46]The endless road and the wailing of chimes [03:31.17]The empty rooms where her memory is protected [03:39.33]Where the angel's voices whisper to the souls of previous times. [04:01.92]She wakes him up [04:05.34]Forty- eight hours later the sun is breaking [04:09.72]Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks [04:17.28]She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking [04:25.35]He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks. [04:32.91]Gentlemen, he said I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes [04:44.19]I've moved your mountains and marked your cards [04:47.94]But Eden is burning either brace yourself for elimination [04:55.65]Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards. [05:20.76]Peace will come [05:22.44]With tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire [05:28.86]But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall [05:37.86]And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating [05:45.48]Between the King and the Queen of Swords.