Bob Dylan - Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight Lyrics






Just a minute before you leave girl
Just a minute before you touch the door
What is it that you're trying to achieve, girl ?
Do you think we can talk about it some more ?
You know, the streets are filled with vipers
Who've lost all ray of hope
You know, it ain't even safe no more
In the palace of the Pope.

Don't fall apart on me tonight
I just don't think that I could handle it
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Yesterday's just a memory
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
And I need you, yeah.

Come over here from over there, girl
Sit down here, you can have my chair
I can't see us going anywhere, girl
The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can't take you there
I wish I'd have been a doctor
Maybe I'd have saved some life that had been lost
Maybe I'd have done some good in the world
'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed.

Don't fall apart on me tonight
I just don't think that I could handle it
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Yesterday's just a memory
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
And I need you, yeah.

I ain't too good at conversation, girl
So you might not know exactly how I feel
But if I could, I'd bring bring you to the mountaintop, girl
And build you a house made out of stainless steel
But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
That's hanging in the Louvre
My throat start to tickle and my nose itches
But I know that I can't move.
Don't fall apart on me tonight
I just don't think that I could handle it
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Yesterday's gone but the past lives on
Tomorrow's just one step beyond
And I need you, yeah.

Who are these people who are walking towards you
Do you know them or will there be a fight ?
With their humorless smiles so easy to see through
Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right ?

Do you remember St. James Street
Where you blew Jackie P.'s mind ?
You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet
And laid his life on the line.

Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl
No more booby traps and bombs
No more decadence and charm
No more affection that's misplaced, girl
No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms
What about that millionaire with the drumsticks in his pants ?
He looked so baffled and so bewildered
When he played and we didn't dance.

Don't fall apart on me tonight
I just don't think that I could handle it
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Yesterday's just a memory
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
And I need you, yeah.





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  1. D.... T....

    Bob Dylan you are one fine man been listening to you since I was 5 years old and I'm 54 now I love your way of saying your way of being the person that you are you are awesome and I love you so much and your still out there doing it right now that's why I are so exciting to me baby

  2. D.... T....

    Love you Bob Dylan I will always love to listen to you sing your one of the fine men baby and your still out there doing it right now just love that you are awesome person

  3. J.... M....

    Listening to Bob Dylan is a pure pleasure, really!!!!

  4. N.... D....

    I love this song 👄 🇫🇷

  5. S.... G....

    But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting that's hanging in the Louvre
    My throat starts to tickle and my nose itches, but I know that I can't move

  6. D.... M....

    Tune man x

  7. M.... K....

    LOSE yourselph in a World of BOB DYLAN!!!
    🎶🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸🎼🎼🎸🏆🏆🏆

  8. R.... H....

    It's in my top 40 Dylan Albums. It could be #4 or #33. Hard to be dogmatic

  9. M.... K....

    Gréât!!!!!!!!🎼🎼🎼🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸⭐️

  10. j.... b....

    Can't go wrong with Robbie and Sly, and Mick Taylor/Mark Knopfler. Dylan's singing on this outtake show you he can't hold a tune to save his life, but it's all good, man. I can just imagine the depths that Dylan and his troubadours fall to on the road in say, Racine or Norman, OK. But it's still all good, man.

  11. M.... N....

    hot shit

  12. T.... 1....

    Not the album version

    T.... 1....

    @Truthhandler it's the alternate version 1983,read the title.....

  13. M.... K....

    🎸🎸🎼🎼🎼🎸🎸❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  14. B.... B....

    Dylan, Knopfler, Sly & Robbie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovP6ibFFnpk 2:38

  15. S.... B....

    DO RIGHT BY GOD AND HIS SON JESUS AND DO RIGHT FOR ME FOR I CAN TAKE ANYMORE BEING YOUR WHORE OF NOTHINGNESS AND WE BOTH KNOW THAT AIN:T THE WAY that's TRUE .

  16. S.... B....

    I have never had not conversation. I want to die to night I know how to have a conversdation with. WHAT"S WRONG?

    S.... B....

    I love you baby girl ! You are needed So Badly ! Love Kim Banoak

  17. S.... B....

    100% phoney such stupid comments godly boring show no imagination or feeling, just mineless puppetscommenting and very dull. I know you could care less for any thing about me but your on the bottom and falling out by trying to hard. These tasteless coments will sink you commentts for I am above this bullshit Boredom. Talk to me for you are falling apart and need my imtelligent truely from a place that counts way beyond the dul,lness of your current boring commets from just your lame fans.

  18. S.... B....

    The truth of rym and gracfully laced notes written and sung , I believe that they are made from above and for their magic they sing with can be only be sung by Bob Dyan himself for nobody that I have heard of is made by our ''GOD"" who knows well enough that it is only Bob Dylan of whom shall sing in true glory these songs are beyond those who are belived to know only the very one of having and are only the ones who believe and have the knowlegde of the known blessing that only come from the pure heart of Bob Dlyan of whom is the only blessing of the magical blessings within the soulfull ness of only the vocie of Bob Dylan could ever at best sing from above and beyond forever sing as though OUR GOD intended them to be forever one of our biggest bllessings we will forever never understand.

    S.... B....

    He said in a interview that he sold his soul, so it's not coming from above man even tho I love the song

    S.... B....

    And btw, none of that made any fuckin sense

  19. S.... B....

    I will with all i have with in me and behind I must ask you straight out right here if you do listen to what I ask of you for it means much to me to be able to buy needed oil colors and will enable me to travel to N.Y.C. where this Gallery titled ''The Robert Miller Gallery'' for they truely want my work. But I must tell you that I was never the type of Artist who's mission was to climb the social steps whether an Artist or not who in order to be known must climb the steps in order to be shown in a Gallery even this gallery of whom have already Have my pianting without my permmmision and was their profile facebook painting the kept as their profile plus a beautiful long comment I made about kee Krasner's painting that they kep;t on their page for some time. At that stage in mmy Artist career I cared less about showing my work and Even when a rich friend of mind who happened to live around the corner of this gallery wolked on day in to their Gallery holding a photograph of the very painting the choice never to give back to me and said to mmy friend that they knew nothing about this painting. Now they have the gaul after a number of years the are calling on me again for mmy work to be shown and with GOD'S kindness mmay my paintings be sold for I live in poverty and must play the game so that is why I kindly ask you for a small testimony about my work so I may have the money most badly needed to live and eat and travel to N.Y.C. when nessarary.I never took on a gallery in my life as an oil painter and of one who fell in love with her skeletons of her paintings as etchings. I have to and must ask of you to write out a short testimony for me to show them somebody of name likes my paintings. I have chozen you either if you are being Bob Dylan or of who's name you live under now to please write a short testimony for Sara Bridgman that praises my work. At one time ,a ways back I had Chamberlain's testimony, Richard Bellimoni testimony, Andy Warholes teasimony but I have lost them, left them behind on desolation rd. and have lost all mmy tesimonys.It is of the mmost importance to me so decide and if you deside to help me out a bit as you know anyway your desires and commands I put my hand on the bible and you shall recieve. During the 16 hundreds in england the man who held the bible for one to sware the truth on was held by the Bridgman, hense came the meaning of my last name.

  20. M.... M....

    What a blindingly fab version, far better than the overproduced album track...raw and authentic. Seemingly he wasn't happy with the earliest cuts and decided to change musicians.... Lucky us, we get the best of both worlds

    M.... M....

    on this song at least, it's the same musicians: Sly Dunbar on drums, Robbie Shakespeare on bass, Mick Taylor + Mark Knopfler on guitar, etc... Sly & Robbie literally shine on the entire album. Fabulous musicians from Jamaica

  21. M.... K....

    Brilliant song!!!

  22. S.... P....

    My Mother bought me this álbum many years ago❤. Rest in Paradise Mom

    S.... P....

    Love on ya

  23. g.... h....

    Love Mick Taylor’s slide work on this

  24. J.... L....

    Infidels pure genius. should have been a dubble album..

  25. S.... N....

    No woman no cry

  26. B.... ....

    Gosh, electronic drums were a plague back then... But the rest is so excellent.

  27. A.... N....

    Love this......Thx.....❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕

    A.... N....

    Love on ya

  28. T.... T....

    No more mud cake creatures lying in your arms...

  29. P.... N....

    The whole undubbed Infedels is pretty good.

  30. A.... R....

    This is one of the best song to sing when you're drunk

    A.... R....

    Why do you have to be drunk?

    A.... R....

    I prefer 'It's my life' by Bon Jovi

  31. A.... W....

    The man can write a love song.

  32. F.... ....

    C UN CAMELEON BOB DYLAN R A S ET VOS PHOTOS SUPERBES MERCI A VOUS

  33. K.... L....

    artists ... i have to listen to EDs Ängeln i rummet...

  34. K.... B....

    What a Great Album. ....need to post the whole thing

  35. A.... M....

    Great outtake from a great album.

  36. L.... I....

    Love this song!! Awesome singing from Dylan which is giving me goosebumps!! Loving the melody! Rock on!!! Thanks for the great time!!

  37. T.... B....

    try 2 love all

  38. G.... G....

    folk man of united states

  39. w.... a....

    It's not outtake ...it's a alternate take...

  40. J.... L....

    should have been Bobs..graceland..

  41. R.... D....

    INFIDELS may be my top fave Dylan. Album

  42. T.... M....

    A world of melody covers..woaahhh!!!!

  43. J.... L....

    classic song...

  44. c.... 4....

    My favorite dylan lp

  45. G.... S....

    Lesley don't fall apart on me tonight. One of my favourite songs for my wife lesley. FANTASTIC song

  46. O.... ....

    Infidels is a great album,you have to get it.

    O.... ....

    My Mother bought this for me many years ago

    O.... ....

    Absolutely remember buying it on vinyl in Virginia record shop commercial road pompey few moons ago.....

    O.... ....

    It's so underrated but it's actually a little gem.

    O.... ....

    I have to get it?
    What if its given as a present to me?
    Does that count?

    O.... ....

    OsirisWorld it really is a good album.

  47. R.... C....

    I bet Prince thought you had it....

  48. R.... C....

    Love it!

  49. A.... I....

    Quel groove !

  50. A.... V....

    que disco

  51. t.... ....

    good choice again ..... love this version too ..... ♥♥♥

    t.... ....

    targarosko i prefer some parts of this version, but the one on the album is a little bit better, bob's voice is more mysterious there

    t.... ....

    I have to agree with that. Love the harmonica intro on the album version. :)