sugar baby, the very last great dylan song (2002)

I've got my back to the sun '/cause the light is too intense

I can see what everybody in the world is up against
Can't turn back/ you can't come back/ sometimes we push too far
One day you'll open your eyes and you'll see where we are
Sugar baby get on down the road/ you ain't got no brains nohow
You went years without me/ might as well keep goin' now
Some of these bootleggers/ they make pretty good stuff
Plenty of places to hide things here/ if you want to hide them bad enough
I'm staying with Aunt Sally/ but you know she not really my aunt
Some of these memories/ you can learn to live with and some of'em you can't
Sugar baby get on down the line/ you ain't got no brains nohow
You went years without me/ might as well keep goin' now
The ladies down in Darktown/ they're doin' the Darktown strut
Y'always got to be prepared/ but you never know for what
There ain't no limit to the amount of trouble women bring
Love is pleasing/ love is teasing/ love not an evil thing
Sugar baby get on down the road/ you ain't got no brains nohow
You went years without me/ might as well keep goin' now
Every moment of existence/ seems like some dirty trick
Happiness can come suddenly/ and leave just as quick
Any minute of the day/ the bubble can burst
Try to make things better/ for someone sometimes
you just end up makin' it thousand times worse
Sugar baby get on down the road/ you ain't got no brains nohow
You went years without me/ might as well keep goin' now
Your charms have broken many a heart/ and mine is surely one
You got a way of tearin' the world apart/ love, see what you've done
Just as sure as we're livin'/ just as sure as you're born
Look up, look up/ seek your maker/ for Gabriel blows his horn
Sugar baby, get on down the line/ you ain't got no sense nohow
You went years without me/ might as well keep goin' now

(from "love and theft", 2002)