I'm Not There

Oscar Pick for best song. This is my transcription. No consensus exists as to the exact lyrics as it was never published and many words are difficult to distinguish. Like the gambler says, read it and weep.

Things all right today she’s all too tight
In my neighborhood she cries both day and night
I know it because it was there.

It's a milestone but she's down on her luck
And she’s daily so lonely, but to me too hard to buck
I was there.

I believe that she'd stop him if she would start to care
I believe that she'd look upon deciding to care
And I'd go by the Lord in ways she's on my way
But I don't belong there.

No I don't belong to her, I don't belong to every prize
She's my Christ-forsaken angel, but she don’t hear me cry
She's a lone-hearted mystic and she can carry on
When I'm there she's all right, but [when] she's not when I'm gone.

Heaven knows that the answer she's don't calling no one
She's the way the sailing beautiful she's mine for the one
And I lost her hesitation by temptation ‘les it runs
But she don’t holler me, but I'm not there, I'm gone.

Now I'll cry tonight like I cried the night before
And I'll feast on her eyes, but I'll dream about the door
So long Jesus, savior, blind fate worse to tell
It don't have consolation, she smiles fare-thee-well.

Now when I was ‘neath the levee, I was born to love her
But she knows that the kingdom weighs so high above her
And I run but I race, but it's not too fast a slow
But I'll not deceive her, I'm not there, I'm gone.

Well it's all about diffusion as I cry for her veil
I don’t need anybody now beside me to tell
And its all affirmation I receive but its not
She’s a lone-hearted beauty, but she don’t like the spot
And she’s gone.

Yes she’s gone like the rainbow that shining yesterday
But now she’s home beside me and I’d like her to stay
She’s a lone forsaken beauty and is don’t trust anyone
And I wish I was beside her, but I’m not there, I’m gone.

Well it’s too hard to stake in and I don’t far believe
It’s so bad for to abuse and she’s hard too hard to leave
It’s alone it’s a crime the way she mauls me around
But she told for to hate me, but there’s a long forsaken clown.

Yes I believe that its rightful, oh I believe it in my mind
I been told like I said when I before carry on the crime
And she’s all and to told her like I said carry on
I wish I was there to help her, but I’m not there, I’m gone