i delayed him in our hug, back then.
there were numerous days of distance between us, lives we lived apart, all the things we didn't share, the pains, the walls, the joys, the victories, missing what we once were, the pride-sometimes-shame of what we became, what we are in this present of one more day.
the one today.
where i shape my departure from you.
(when dream is gone, haleh bryan)
it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
if you don't know by now
an' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
it'll never do somehow
when your rooster crows at the break of dawn
look out your window and i'll be gone
you're the reason i'm trav'lin' on
...
don't think twice, it's all right
it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
that light i never knowed
an' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
i'm on the dark side of the road
i wish there was somethin' you would do or say
to try and make me change my mind and stay
we never did too much talkin' anyway
...
so don't think twice, it's all right
i pack the life i was here to open it somewhere else, in another space, my own, where i'll live with open doors, letting in the air and the others, the music that reaches the silence within, that makes it sing, gently wakes me up, sets me free, slowly returns me to the feeling inside.
...
on that other part of me, i still hold on to what i don't have or know.
and i don't
ever
let you die in my dreams.
..
you only die in this everything
this life
this being
of every instant.
you die in me
only
everyday.
...
it ain't no use in callin' out my name, boy
like you never done before
it ain't no use in callin' out my name, boy
i can't hear you any more
i'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' walkin' down the road
i once loved a man, a child i'm told
i gave him my heart but he wanted my soul
...
don't think twice, it's all right
so long,
honey babe
where i'm bound, i can't tell
goodbye's too good a word, babe
so i'll just say fare thee well
i ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
you could have done better but i don't mind
you just kinda wasted my precious time
...
but don't think twice, it's all right
.
(aditional images by cig harvey, katia chausheva and noronha da costa
poem: adaptation of don't think twice, it's all right, by bob dylan)
