Escrita por Bob Dylan, foi gravada em 27 de abril de 1978, No Rundown Studios, em Santa Monica, California e lançada em 15 de junho de 1978 no disco Street-Legal, o décimo oitavo disco de Dylan. Foi produzida por Don DeVito. Bob Dylan cantou e tocou guitarra. Steve Douglas tocou sax tenor e sax soprano. David Mansfield tocou bandolim e violino. Alan Pasqua tocou teclado. Billy Cross tocou guitarra. Steven Soles tocou guitarra e fez backing vocals. Jerry Scheff tocou baixo. Ian Wallace tocou bateria. Bobbye Hall tocou percussão. Steve Madaio tocou trompete. Carolyn Dennis, Joan Harris e Helena Springs fizeram backing vocals.
A letra:
In
death, you face life with a child and a wife
Who sleep-walks
through your dreams into walls.
You're a soldier of mercy, 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
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
And 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
And you have 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
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 off 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 there's no time to
think.
Anger and jealousy's all that he sells
us,
He's content when you're under his thumb.
Madmen oppose
him, but 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
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, you 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
But there's no time
to think.
You've murdered your vanity, buried
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
But 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 and you're finally released
You're stranded but with nothing
to share.
Loyalty, unity, epitome, rigidity.
You
turn around for one real last glimpse of Camille
'Neath the moon
shinin' 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
And no time to
think.
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