You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

I've seen love go by my door, it's never been this close before,

Never been so easy or so slow.

I been shooting in the dark too long, when something's not right, it's wrong,

You're gonna make me lonesome when you go.

Dragon clouds so high above, I've only known careless love,

It always has hit me from below,

But this time 'round it's more correct, right on target, so direct,

You're gonna make me lonesome when you go.

Purple clover, Queen Anne lace, crimson hair across your face,

You could make me cry if you don't know.

Can't remember what I was thinking of, you might be spoiling me too much, love,

You're gonna make me lonesome when you go.

Flowers on the hillside blooming crazy,

Crickets talking back and forth in rhyme,

Blue river running slow and lazy,

I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.

Situations have ended sad, relationships have all been bad –

Mine've been like Verlaine's and Rimbaud's,

But there's no way I can compare all them scenes to this affair,

You're gonna make me lonesome when you go.

You're gonna make me wonder what I'm doing,

Staying far behind without you,

You're gonna make me wonder what I'm saying,

You're gonna make me give myself a good talking-to.

I'll look for you in old Honolulu¹, San Francisco, or Ashtabula,

You're gonna have to leave me now, I know,

But I'll see you in the sky above, in the tall grass, in the ones I love,

You're gonna make me lonesome when you go.

¹ To make Honolulu rhyme with Ashtabula, Dylan pronounces the last syllable in Honolulu as la.