Bob Dylan Lyrics - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll Lyrics lyrics

Don't believe what you hear and see

As the way things ought to be,

Dime a dozen doctrines

Are out there in the plenty.

They twist the truth and say

It's technicality.

They water down the meaning

'Tiil it becomes a nullity.

As long as it agrees

With what they want to think,

The truth that was once in their heart

Will soon become extinct.

It's the fashion of today

This Tinkertoy religion,

But nothing lasts forever

When it's based on on your emotion.

It's time to question what you think,

And challenge its validity,

It's time that you embrace the truth,

And question stupidity.

There's so many ways

In theology

They try to make solutions

Through psychology.

What they have invented,

Is some philosophical excuse,

They blame their imperfections

On ritual abuse.

If you avoid the real problem

You'll never find relief,

And if you want to be free,

Then ditch your misbelief.

How do you distinguish

What is wrong from right

When your standards are so relative

And vary overnight?

What it seems to me

Is the Truth is what you fear,

And if you face up to the facts

You might lose what you hold dear -

A make-believe reality

Where you're always right,

So you concoct and fabricate

To feed your appetite.