Lyrics The Man In Me

The Man in Me was written and performed by Bob Dylan, featuring on his 1970 album New Morning. The song gained wider recognition after being featured in the soundtrack of the Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski in 1998. The lyrics reflect on personal transformation and redemption, themes that were recurrent in Dylans work at the time.

The man in me will do nearly any task
And as for compensation there's little he would ask
Take a woman like you
To get through to the man in me

Storm clouds are raging all around my door
I think to myself I might not take it any more
Take a woman like your kind
To find the man in me

But oh what a wonderful feeling
Just to know that you are near
Sets my a heart a-reeling
From my toes up to my ears

The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from bein' seen
But that's just because he doesn't want to turn into some machine
Take a woman like you
To get through to the man in me

(repeat and fade)