bob dylan'ın hayranlarının beklentilerinden bunaldığı bir dönemde, müziği bırakmayı düşündüğü bir sırada yazdığı ve kendi tabiriyle müziğe devam etmesini sağlayan muhteşem şarkı. 1965 tarihli highway 61 revisited albümünün ilk single'ı ve açılış şarkısıdır.

sözleri aşağıdaki gibidir:

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 your next meal,

how does it feel, how does it feel?
to be without a home,
like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

ah 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
and 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, how does it feel?
to be on your own, with no direction home
a complete unknown, like a rolling stone

ah you never turned around to see the frowns,
on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you,
you never understood that it ain't no good
you shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
you used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
who carried on his shoulder a siamese cat
ain't it hard when you discovered that
he really wasn't where it's at
after he took from you everything he could steal

how does it feel, how does it feel?
to have you on your own, with no direction home
like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone

ahh princess on a steeple and all the pretty people
they're all drinking, thinking that they've got it made
exchanging all precious gifts
but you better take your diamond ring, you better pawn it babe
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
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, ah how does it feel?
to be on your own, with no direction home
like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone