Drive-By Truckers - Like a Rolling Stone lyrics

(Patterson Hood)
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime
Didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll
You're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you

You used to laugh about everybody
That was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging around
For your next meal
How does it feel? How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

(Shonna Tucker)
You've gone to the finest schools, all right


Miss Lonely, don't you know you only used
To get juiced in it?
Nobody has ever taught you how
To live on the street
Now you gonna have to get used to it
Used to it

You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis as you stare
Into the vacuum of his eyes
And say, "Do you wanna make a deal?"

How does it feel? How does it feel
To be on your own with no direction home
A complete unknown like a rolling stone?

(Jason Isbell)
Oh, you never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns when
They all did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You should never let other people
Get your kicks for you

You used to ride on the
Chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at?
After he take from you
Everything he could steal

How does it feel? How does it feel
Yeah, to be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?

(Mike Cooley)
Oh, princess on the steeple and
All the pretty people
They're all drinkin', thinkin' that they got
Got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts but you
Better take your diamond ring
You better, you better pawn it, babe

You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the
Language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you ain't got nothing you
Got nothing to lose you're invisible now
You got no secrets to conceal

How does it feel? How does it feel
To be on your own with no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
Just like a rolling stone
Like a rolling stone