The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar (Live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - November 13, 1979)-Bob Dylan

[ti:The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar (Live Nov. 13, 1980)] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 13 / 1979-1981 (Live)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar (Live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - November 13, 1979) - Bob Dylan [00:03.35]Written by：Bob Dylan [00:06.70]Prayed in the ghetto with my face in the cement [00:10.55] [00:12.13]Heard the last moan of a boxer and the massacre of the innocent [00:16.69] [00:17.82]A please man and waiter became nauseated [00:21.88] [00:23.23]Just me and an overworked dancer [00:25.12] [00:26.02]The walls that are really deteriorated [00:28.13]I go set my affection on things above [00:31.44]Let nothing stand in the way of that love [00:33.30]Not even the Rock of Gibraltar [00:35.38] [00:40.40]If you see her on Phantom Street [00:42.44] [00:43.65]Tell her I still think she's neat [00:45.68]And that the groom's still waiting at the altar [00:49.78] [00:52.05]Highway men on not charges [00:53.78] [00:54.94]Pushing hell raisin' the robbery [00:56.16] [00:57.87]Mistakin' your shyness for aloofness your silence for snobbery [01:02.07] [01:03.64]Never did get the message don't even know when one was sent to me [01:08.31] [01:09.43]About the madness of becoming what one was never meant to be [01:14.10]Well [01:14.86]May I come to feel [01:17.28]Come on with me girl [01:19.09] [01:19.63]Not even the Rock of Gibraltar [01:22.83] [01:26.59]If you see her on Phantom Street [01:28.61] [01:29.41]Tell her I still think she's neat [01:31.28] [01:31.96]And that the groom's still waiting at the altar [01:35.77] [02:00.49]Oh what I can say about Claudette [02:02.23] [02:04.41]Wouldn't come back to haunt me [02:05.60] [02:07.32]I finally had to give her up 'bout the time she began to want me [02:11.78] [02:13.10]But I know mercy them slandered and humiliated [02:17.30] [02:18.62]I'd done anything for that woman [02:20.42] [02:20.96]If she didn't make me feel so obligated [02:23.02]Well [02:23.58]I'm gonna set my affections on things above [02:26.12] [02:27.29]Let nothing stand in the way of that love [02:29.33]Not even the Rock of Gibraltar [02:32.42] [02:35.90]If you see her on Phantom Street [02:37.98] [02:39.13]Tell her that I still think she's neat [02:40.69] [02:41.19]And that the groom's still waiting at the altar [02:45.54] [03:10.33]And I'm locked into a time-zone with a high-degree temperature [03:15.17] [03:16.71]The world's coming to an end [03:18.17] [03:19.16]Wise men standing around like furniture [03:21.13] [03:22.65]What can I say about Claudette [03:23.97] [03:25.57]Or that I couldn't get believe it [03:27.25] [03:28.41]She was bringing her high explanting officer [03:30.69] [03:31.35]Lead another saving will [03:33.44]I go set my affections on things above [03:36.42]Let nothing stand in the way of that love [03:38.76]Not even the Rock of Gibraltar [03:40.81] [03:45.68]If you see her on Phantom Street [03:47.80] [03:48.96]Tell her I still think she's neat [03:51.04]And that the groom's still waiting at the altar [03:54.84] [04:19.73]Well [04:20.07]There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it [04:25.01] [04:26.40]Tonight you got the power to take it tomorrow you won't have the power to [04:30.74]Keep it [04:31.20] [04:32.25]What I'm gonna say about Claudette [04:33.61] [04:34.41]She could be in the mountains or the prairies [04:36.22] [04:37.16]She could be respectably married or running a whorehouse in Buenos Aires [04:42.17]Well [04:42.91] [04:43.52]Set my affections on things above [04:46.10]Let nothing stand in the way of that love [04:48.43]Not even the Rock of Gibraltar [04:50.20] [04:54.84]Well if you see her on Phantom Street [04:57.21]Dude tell her that I still think she's neat [04:59.17] [05:00.52]And that the groom's still waiting at the altar