Bob Dylan Songs - Just Like A Woman Lyrics

Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman

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Album: Blonde On Blonde
Released: 1966

Just Like A Woman Lyrics

Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev’rybody knows
That Baby’s got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
She takes Just Like A Woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl

Queen Mary
She’s my friend
Yes, I believe I’ll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That Baby can’t be blessed
Till she sees finally that she’s like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls
She takes just like a woman, yes
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl

It was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what’s worse
Is this pain in here
I can’t stay in here
Ain’t it clear that

I just can’t fit
Yes, I believe it’s time for us to quit
But when we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don’t let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world
Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do
You make love just like a woman, yes, you do
Then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl

Writer/s: BOB DYLAN
Publisher: BOB DYLAN MUSIC CO
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Dylan wrote this ballad on Thanksgiving Day 1965 while on tour in Kansas City. It was allegedly inspired by Warhol factory pin up girl Edie Sedgwick, a pinup girl who appears in sleeve photos to Blonde On Blonde and died of a drug overdose in 1971. It could also be about his relationship with fellow folk singer Joan Baez.

Dylan has performed this song more than any other.

The song came under some fire for the line "she breaks just like a little girl," which some listeners felt was disparaging to women. This is a very shallow interpretation, however, and rarely taken seriously by Dylan's fans. Many of Dylan's songs include put-downs, and sometimes those targets happen to be women. Examples include "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Positively 4th Street."

Joe Cocker, Manfred Mann, Rod Stewart and Richie Havens are among the many artists to cover this song.

This was not released as a single in the UK. Manfred Mann's version hit #10 there in 1966.

In a February 2000 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, presidential candidate Al Gore answered two questions by singing parts of this song.

Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers covered this on Damn Near Righteous, his first new album since the untimely 2003 death of his partner Bobby Hatfield. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)