My Back Pages — текст песни (byrds)

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin` high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
We`ll meet on edges, soon, said I
Proud `neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I`m younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
Rip down all hate, I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull I dreamed.
Romantic flanks of musketeers
Foundationed deep somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I`m younger than that now.

Girls faces formed the forward path
from phoney jealousy
To memorizing politics
of ancient history.
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I`m younger than that now.

A self-ordained professor`s tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school.
Equality, I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I`m younger than that now.

In a soldiers stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I`d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My sisters fled by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I`m younger than that now.

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I`m younger than that now