-Performing "Like a Rolling Stone"
from her new album, "Cat Power Sings Dylan:
The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert,"
please welcome Cat Power.
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-♪ Once upon a time, you dressed so fine ♪
♪ Threw the bums a dime in your prime ♪
♪ Didn't you? ♪
♪ People call, say, 'Beware doll, you're bound to fall' ♪
♪ You thought they were all kidding you ♪
♪ You used to laugh about ♪
♪ Everybody that was hanging out ♪
♪ Now you don't talk so loud ♪
♪ Now you don't seem so proud ♪
♪ About having to be scrounging ♪
♪ For your next meal ♪
♪ How does it feel ♪
♪ To be without a home ♪
♪ Like a complete unknown ♪
♪ Like a rolling stone? ♪
♪ Oh, you've gone to the finest schools, alright, Miss Lonely ♪
♪ But you know you only used to get juiced in it ♪
♪ Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street ♪
♪ but now you're gonna have to get used to it ♪
♪ You say you never compromise ♪
♪ With the mystery tramp, but now you realize ♪
♪ He's not selling any alibis ♪
♪ As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes ♪
♪ And say, "Do you want to make a deal?" ♪
♪ How does it feel ♪
♪ To be on your own ♪
♪ With no direction home ♪
♪ A complete unknown ♪
♪ Like a rolling stone? ♪
♪ Princess on a steeple and all the pretty people ♪
♪ They're all drinking, thinking that they've got it made ♪
♪ Exchanging all precious gifts,
you better take your diamond rings ♪
♪ You better pawn 'em, baby ♪
♪ You used to be so amused ♪
♪ At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used ♪
♪ Go to him, now he calls you, you can't refuse ♪
♪ 'Cause when you ain't got nothing,
you got nothing to lose ♪
♪ You're invisible now ♪
♪ You've got no secrets to conceal ♪
♪ How does it feel ♪
♪ How does it feel? ♪
♪ To be on your own ♪
♪ With no direction home ♪
♪ Like a complete unknown ♪
♪ Like a rolling stone? ♪
♪ Like a rolling stone ♪
♪ Ah ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Cat Power!
You're the best.
Cat Power -- her world tour kicks off in February.