Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:31:14 -0600 From: "Prashant W. Andrade" (prashant@antigone.ce.utexas.edu) SOMEONES GOT A HOLD OF MY HEART (Words and Music by Bob Dylan) 1983 Special Rider Music Intro: G D C (x4) G They say Eat Drink and be merry, Bm Take the bull by the horns. C I keep seeing visions of you, a lily among thorns G Bm C Everything looks a little far away to me G Bm Gettin harder and harder to recognize the trap Em Too much information about nothin C Too much educated rap G Bm C Its just like you told me, just like you said it would be Am The moon rising like wildfire D I feel the breath of a storm Am Something I got to do tonight D You go inside and stay warm G C Someones got a hold of my heart G C Someones got a hold of my heart G C Someones got a hold of my heart Am You- D G D C (x4) Yeah, you got a hold of my heart Just got back from a city of powder blue skies Everybody thinks with their stomach Theres plenty of spies Every street is crooked, they just wind around till they disappear Madame Butterfly, she lulls me to sleep Like an ancient river So wide and deep She said, Be easy, baby, aint nothin worth stealin here Youre the one Ive been waitin for Youre the one I desire But you must first realize Im not another man for hire Someones got a hold of my heart Someones got a hold of my heart Someones got a hold of my heart You, you, you, you Yeah, you got a hold of my heart I hear the hot-blooded singer On the bandstand croon September song, Memphis in June While theyre beating the devil out of a guy whos wearing a flaming red wig I been to Babylon I gotta confess I can still hear that voice crying in the wilderness What looks large from a distance, close up is never that big Never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine Never could learn to look at your face and call it mine. Someones got a hold of my heart Someones got a hold of my heart Someones got a hold of my heart You- Yeah, you got a hold of my heart