Like a Rolling Stone

Once upon a time, you dressed so fine

Threw the bums a dime in your prime

Didn't you?

People call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"

You thought they were all kidding you?

You used to laugh about

Everybody that was hangin' out

Now you don't talk so loud

Now you don't seem so proud

About having to be scrounging your next meal

How does it feel?

How does it feel?

To be without a home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone

Ah, you've gone to the finest school, alright, Miss Lonely

But you know you only used to get juiced in it

Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street

And now you're gonna have to get used to it

You say you never compromise

With the mystery tramp but now you realize

He's not selling any alibis

As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes

And say, "Do you want to make a deal?"

How does it feel?

How does it feel?

To be on your own

With no direction home

A complete unknown

Like a rolling stone

Oh, you never turned around to see the frowns

On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did

Tricks for you

Never understood and it ain't no good

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you

You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat

Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat

Ain't it hard when you discovered that?

He really wasn't where it's at

After he took from you everything he could steal

How does it feel?

How does it feel?

To have on your own?

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone

Ah, princess on the steeple and all the pretty people

They're all drinkin', thinkin' that they

Got it made

Exchanging all precious gifts

But you'd better take your diamond ring

You'd better pawn it, babe

You used to be so amused

At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used

Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse

When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose

You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal

How does it feel?

Oh, how does it feel?

To be on your own

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone