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THE SONG
"ALL I REALLY WANT TO DO"
by BOB DYLAN

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I ain’t lookin’ to compete with you


Beat or cheat or mistreat you

Simplify you, classify you

Deny, defy or crucify you --

All I really want to do

Is, baby, be friends with you.



No, and I ain’t lookin’ to fight with you

Frighten you or tighten you

Drag you down or drain you down

Chain you down or bring you down --

All I really want to do

Is, baby, be friends with you.



I ain’t lookin’ to block you up

Shock or knock or lock you up

Analyze you, categorize you

Finalize you or advertise you --

All I really want to do

Is, baby, be friends with you.



I don’t want to straight-face you

Race or chase you, track or trace you

Or disgrace you or displace you

Or define you or confine you --

All I really want to do

Is, baby, be friends with you.



I don’t want to meet your kin

Make you spin or do you in

Or select you or dissect you

Or inspect you or reject you

All I really want to do --

Is, baby, be friends with you.



I don’t want to fake you out

Take or shake or forsake you out

I ain’t lookin’ for you to feel like me

See like me or be like me

All I really want to do

Is, baby, be friends with you.


> Copyright © 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1992 by Special Rider Music

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