Lyrics:

What Good Am I?
(Words and Music by Bob Dylan)
1989 Special Rider Music

What good am I
If I'm like all the rest?
If I just turn away
When I see how you're dressed.

If I shut myself off
So I can't hear you cry
What good am I?

What good am I
If I know an' don't do?
If I see and don't say,
If I look right through you.

If I turn a deaf ear
To the thunder in the sky
What good am I?

What good am I
While you softly weep?
An' I hear in my head
What you say in your sleep.

An' I freeze in the moment
Like the rest who don't try
What good am I?

What good am I then
To others and me?
If I've had every chance
And yet still fail to see.

If my hands are tied,
Must I not wonder within
Who tied them and why,
And where must I have been?

What good am I,
If I say foolish things
An' I laugh in the face of
What sorrow brings.

An' I just turn my back
When you silently die
What good am I?