You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met

"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.