No Time to Think Songtext
von Bob Dylan

In death, you face life with a child and a wife
Who sleepwalks through your dreams into walls
You′re a soldier of mercy, and you're cold and you curse
He who cannot be trusted must fall

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety
You fight for the throne and you travel alone
Unknown as you slowly sink (slowly sink)
And there′s no time to think

In the federal city you been blown and shown pity
In secret, for pieces of change
The empress attracts you but oppression distracts you
It makes you feel violent and strange

Memory, ecstasy, tyranny, hypocrisy
Betrayed by a kiss on a cool night of bliss
In the valley of the missing link (of missing link)
And there's no time to think


Judges will haunt you, the country priestess will want you
Her worst is better than best
I've seen all these decoys through a set of deep turquoise eyes
And I feel so depressed

China doll, alcohol, duality, mortality
Mercury rules you and destiny fools you
Like the plague, with a dangerous wink (dangerous wink)
And there′s no time to think

Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you
Where the lion lies down with the lamb
I′d have paid the traitor and killed him much later
But that's just the way that I am

Paradise, sacrifice, mortality, reality
But the magician is quicker and his game
Is much thicker than blood and blacker than ink (and blacker than ink)
And there′s no time to think

Vomit and jealousy's all that he sells us
He′s contented when you're under his thumb
Madmen oppose him, your kindness throws him
To survive it you play deaf and dumb


Equality, liberty, humility, simplicity
You glance through the mirror and there′s eyes staring clear
At the back of your head as you drink (as you drink)
And there's no time to think

Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow
Will offer their heads for a prayer
You can't find no salvation, have no expectations
Anytime, anyplace, anywhere

Mercury, gravity, nobility, humility
You know you can′t keep her and the water gets deeper
That is leading you onto the brink (onto the brink)
And there′s no time to think

You've murdered your vanity, burned your sanity
For pleasure you must now resist
Lovers obey you but they cannot sway you
They′re not even sure you exist

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism
Fools making laws for the breaking of jaws
And the sound of the keys as they clink (as they clink)
And there's no time to think

The bridge that you travel on goes to the Babylon girl
With the rose in her hair
Starlight in the East you finally released
You′re stranded with nothing to share

Loyalty, unity, epitome, rigidity
You turn around for one real last glimpse of camille
Neath the moon shining bloody and pink (bloody and pink)
And there's no time to think

Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you
But no, you will not be deceived
Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt
You can give but you cannot receive

No time to choose when the truth must die
No time to lose or say goodbye
No time to prepare for the victim that′s there
No time to suffer or blink (suffer or blink)
And there's no time to think