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Making a Liar Out of Me – Bob Dylan
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Written by: Bob Dylan
Recorded: Sept. 26, 1980
From: “Trouble No More – The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981” (2017)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
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[Verse 1]
AD
I tell people, you just going through changes
AD
And that you’re acquainted both with night and day
A D
That your money’s good and you’re just being courageous
A D
On them burning bridges knowing your feet are made of clay
AD
Well I say you won’t be destroyed by your inventions
A D
That you brought it all under captivity
AD
And that you really do have all the best intentions
A G DA
But you’re making a liar out of me
[Verse 2]
AD
Well I say that you’re just young and self-tormented
AD
But that deep down you understand
A D
The hopes and fears and dreams of the discontented
A D
That threaten now to overtake your promised land
A D
Well I say you’d not sow discord among brothers
AD
Nor drain a man of his integrity
A D
That you the cries of orphans and their mothers
A G DA
But you’re making a liar out of me
A GA
But you’re making a liar out of me
[Verse 3]
A D
Well I say that, that ain’t flesh and blood you’re drinking
A D
In the wounded empire of your fool’s paradise
A D
With a light above your head forever blinking
A D
Turning virgins into merchandise
A D
That you must have been beautiful when you were living
A D
You remind me of some old-time used-to-be
A D
I say you can be trusted with the power you been given
A GA
But you’re making a liar out of me
[Verse 4]
A D
So many things so hard to say as you stumble
A D
To take refuge in your offices of shame
A D
As the earth beneath my feet begins to rumble
AD
And your young men die for nothin’, not even fame
AD
I say that someday you’ll begin to trust us
A D
And that your conscience has not been slain by conformity
AD
That you stand up unafraid to believe in justice
A G DA
But you’re making a liar out of me
A G DA
You’re making a liar out of me
[Verse 5]
AD
Well I can hear the sound of distant thunder
A D
From an open window at the end of every hall
AD
Now that you’re gone I got to wonder
AD
If you ever were here at all
A D
I say you never sacrificed my children
AD
To some false god of infidelity
A D
And that it’s not the Tower of Babel that you’re building
A G DA
But you’re making a liar out of me
A G DA
You’re making a liar out of me
A G D A
Now, you’re making a liar out of me
