hey mr tambourine man play a song for me i m not sleepy and there is no place i m going to hey mr tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning i ll come followin you though i know that evenin s empire has returned into sand vanished from my hand left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping my weariness amazes me i m branded on my feet i have no one to meet and the ancient empty street s too dead for dreaming hey mr tambourine man play a song for me i m not sleepy and there is no place i m going to hey mr tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning i ll come followin you take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin ship my senses have been stripped my hands can t feel to grip my toes too numb to step wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin i m ready to go anywhere i m ready for to fade into my own parade cast your dancing spell my way i promise to go under it hey mr tambourine man play a song for me i m not sleepy and there is no place i m going to hey mr tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning i ll come followin you though you might hear laughin spinnin swingin madly across the sun it s not aimed at anyone it s just escapin on the run and but for the sky there are no fences facin and if you hear vague traces of skippin reels of rhyme to your tambourine in time it s just a ragged clown behind i wouldn t pay it any mind it s just a shadow you re seein that he s chasing hey mr tambourine man play a song for me i m not sleepy and there is no place i m going to hey mr tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning i ll come followin you then take me disappearin through the smoke rings of my mind down the foggy ruins of time far past the frozen leaves the haunted frightened trees out to the windy beach far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free silhouetted by the sea circled by the circus sands with all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves let me forget about today until tomorrow hey mr tambourine man play a song for me i m not sleepy and there is no place i m going to hey mr tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning i ll come followin you