Once upon a time you dressed so fine

You threw the bums a dime in your prime didn't you

People'd call say Beware doll you're bound to fall

You thought they all were kiddin' you

You used to laugh about

Everybody that was hangin' out

Now you don't talk so loud

Now you don't seem so proud

About having to be scrounging your next meal

How does it feel

How does it feel baby

To be on your own

No direction home

A complete unknown

Like a rolling stone

You've gone to the finest school all right Miss Lonely

But you know you only used to get juiced in it

And nobody ever taught you

How to live on the street

And now you just gonna have

To get used to it

You said you'd never compromise

With the mystery tramp but now you got to realize

He's not selling any alibis

As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes

And he says hey baby would you like to make a deal

How does it feel

How does it feel

To be on your own

No direction home

A complete unknown

Like a rolling stone

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people

They're laughin' drinkin' thinkin' that they got it made

Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things

But you'd better take your diamond ring you'd better pawn it babe

You used to be so amused

At Napoleon in rags and the sweet talk that he used

Go to him now he calls you you can't refuse

When you ain't' got nothing you got nothing to lose

You're invisible now you got no secrets to conceal

How does it feel

How does it feel baby

To be on your own

No direction home

A complete unknown

Look at ya'

Like a rolling stone