What Good Am I?

Bob Dylan © 1989 Special Rider Music

(Official lyrics @ www.bobdylan.com)

Oh Mercy session 2, The Studio, New Orleans LA - 7.mar.1989, overdub 7.apr.1989, album version  
Oh Mercy session 2, The Studio, New Orleans LA - 7.mar.1989  

What good am i
If i'm like all the rest?
If i just turn away
When i see how you're dressed.
If i shut myself off
So i can't hear you cry
What good am i?

What good am i
If i know an' don't do?
If i see and don't say
If i look right through you.
If i turn a deaf ear
To the thunder in the sky
What good am i?

What good am i
While you softly weep?
An' i hear in my head
What you say in your sleep.
An' i freeze in the moment
Like the rest who don't try
What good am i?

What good am i then
To others and me?
If i've had every chance
And yet still fail to see.
If my hands are tied
Must i not wonder within
Who tied them and why
And where must i have been?

What good am i
If i say foolish things?
An' i laugh in the face of
What sorrow brings.
An' i just turn my back
When you silently die
What good am i?