Bob Dylan - Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat) (Official Audio)
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- "Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)" by Bob Dylan
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Lyrics:
There’s a long-distance train rolling through the rain
Tears on the letter I write
There’s a woman I long to touch and I miss her so much
But she’s drifting like a satellite
#BobDylan #WhereAreYouTonight #JourneyThroughDarkHeat #OfficialAudio - Hudba
78 yrs old two weeks from today, maybe [smile], and this is still the song I find myself craving when the going gets a little rough, like this morning at the doctor's office. The only other one that I sometimes need is 'takes a log to laugh, a train to cry'. However, you must understand and take it into consideration that I've been doin' dylan drugs since Vietnam, so forget everything I just said, but don't forget to live your damn short lives, this ain't no practice run, youngsters....
Lots of folks think they know what the most underrated Dylan song is. It’s this one.
... I have so many favourite Dylan songs but I choose this one as my absolute favourite... + I love singing those crazy lyrics...
Dylan has written so many great songs.... what's all this underated stuff about...
"The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure, to live it you had to explode."
That line has been rattling around in my head for over 30 years.
50
Same here, along with many other lines from Street Legal, a portal to another dimension kind of experience!
Robert Zimmerman
Happily this is on repeat inside my brain
“If you don’t believe there is a price for this sweet paradise, remind me to show you the scars.”
Great example of how the Bard of Hibbing can work in streetwise smartassery even into a song like this one. Dylan’s humor is an overlooked aspect of his songwriting.
is he implying drug use ??
@@lebooger3243 I don't think so. I think it's more like the line from It's Not Dark Yet, "Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain" a song that also mentions scars ("I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal")
@@lebooger3243 He understands everything is a spectrum of outcome,
So there is no good without equal bad and vica versa
"you find out when you reach the top your at the bottom"
So action itself is pointless , or trying to better or improve
"not that eager to make a mistake"
everything is spectrum of two directions of flow, nothing can stay still
so you just need to be aware of you and the other you :)
Street Legal is very under-rated. It's a gem hiding in plain sight
And they wouldn't know a diamond if they held it in there hand
oh yes..
@@user-mj9fn1uw5x Pride goeth etc: take another listen or two to "Idiot Wind"...
agree
A masterpiece. Maybe his most intense song ever.
I could/can never get enough of it. My poor son also knows it by heart ( not necessarily his choice!) 🎶💜🎶
@@burkos777 I wash I was your kid. Lol
Couldn't agree more my friend.
My favorite ! Thank you Bob 🤗🌻 You are truly the best !
Yep! 🤘😎
one of dylan's best album closers and one of his most looked-over tunes. such a great song
Never, not in 35 years, have I tired of this song. The budding intensity of lines like, "... there's a lion in the road, there's a demon escaped, there's a Million Dreams gone, there's a landscape being raped... Oh! If i could just find you tonight."
It's incomparable
o yes, still in my mind a landscape being raped, still happening
The key in what you note is the "budding intensity"... this is the key brilliance to Dylan... his songs 'build'...
... by the way, it's "there's a lion in the room" (not "road").….
@@pauledmiston4883 its actually "there's an elephant in the room" but Bob likes to play with the eternal code :)
"She turned around to look at me as I was walking away" only sung once on his official release
All other versions is "she turned around to look at him as he was walking away"
Which then means it could be a small child watching his father leave :)
Bob is so much fun
This song has such deep meaning to me that it's oftentimes too hard for me to listen to it. But I love it and I love and miss my brother- my best friend- with whom I was listening to THIS SONG the last time we were together-
His repeat button malfunctioned, so THIS SONG we both loved, kept playing over and over. We laughed and neither of us wanted to take the CD out. It played for hours while we talked, just the two of us. I didn't know it would be the last time. I love you Perry. I don't know how I'm making it. Maybe I'm not. Everything has changed. I only hope and pray I'll see you again.
Thank you,, my friend, who took time to read this. XOXO
Sorry for your loss. Ke Akua pu me o'e.
Inspirational and beautiful story.
The love of brothers are live forever🙏
He is on your side!
Be grateful you had a close relationship with your sibling. A lot of us have never had it. I had to fire my whole family almost a quarter century ago. Brother a jealous, bitter man, the kind of guy who shits on everything everybody else cares about... sister, a Borderline Personality Disorder case. My wife commented recently "we have never missed them once". Sadly that is precisely the case. This is why I like Dylan so much. You gotta know when to let people go.
@@lesterdiamond6190
its hard... but its true
Bob Dylan, the greatest living poet in the English language and probably the greatest living poet in any language.
This is one of the greatest songs of all time.
Thank you 🙏
I agree
Magnificent. Love Street-Legal. Critics sniffy, but what do they know? Love it’s scruffy majesty.
It is magnificent and there are more gems on Street Legal but I would love a remix of this more than any of the less than necessary mixes of Beatles album.
This is one of the better ones sonically and I'm appreciating how this song builds up like a train coming at you and it refers to the train in the first line.
Fake news!
Rolling and tumbling and full of unforgettable images - as all the best Dylan songs are. If "Street Legal" weren't already worth listening to from start to finish, this track certainly would make it.
Street Legal is my favorite post-sixties Dylan lp. This song is so exceptional.
Superb album!
Definitely
Still remember the rainy Saturday I bought Street Legal, aged 15. Still one of my go-to Bob albums 45 years later.
Same here, I must have been 14 or 15, still remember my amazement as I was hearing the intro to Changing of the Guards, this album got me hooked from those first seconds 35 years ago and still has me under its spell today.
I started buying his albums in 1977 when I was 15 also, and then this was the first album released when I was already a fan. I collected them all eventually, but this is still my favorite 40+ years later.
There's a long-distance train rolling through the rain, tears on the letter I write
There's a woman I long to touch and I miss her so much but she's drifting like a
Satellite. There's a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze, laughter down on Elizabeth Street
And a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone where she bathed in a stream of pure
Heat. Her father would emphasize you got to be more than street-wise but he practiced
What he preached from the heart
A full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted to me the time and the place that the trouble would start
There's a babe in the arms of a woman in a rage
And a longtime golden-haired stripper onstage
And she winds back the clock and she turns back the page
Of a book that no one can write
Oh, where are you tonight?
The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure, to live it you have to explode
In that last hour of need, we entirely agreed, sacrifice was the code of the road
I left town at dawn, with Marcel and St. John, strong men belittled by doubt
I couldn't tell her what my private thoughts were but she had some way of finding
Them out. He took dead-center aim but he missed just the same, she was waiting
Putting flowers on the shelf
She could feel my despair as I climbed up her hair and discovered her invisible self
There's a lion in the road, there's a demon escaped
There's a million dreams gone, there's a landscape being raped
As her beauty fades and I watch her undrape
I won't, but then again, maybe I might
Oh, if I could just find you tonight
I fought with my twin, that enemy within, 'til both of us fell by the way
Horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees while the law looks the other way
Our partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimes, the guy you were lovin' couldn't stay clean
It felt outta place, my foot in his face, but he should-a stayed where his money was green
I bit into the root of forbidden fruit with the juice running down my leg
Then I dealt with your boss, who'd never known about loss and who always was too proud to beg
There's a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this room and a pathway that leads up to the stars
If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, remind me to show you the scars
There's a new day at dawn and I've finally arrived
If I'm there in the morning, baby, you'll know I've survived
I can't believe it, I can't believe I'm alive
But without you it just doesn't seem right
Oh, where are you tonight?
Bob is relating so many scar's in this song.
Many thanks Joseph
Oh My God, thanks for writing these lyrics in print for all to visualize in their heart of Hearts 💕 So Beautiful., as Bob Dylan is LOVE ❤ Amazingness to the nth degree!!
God dam that’s a story in those lyrics awesome 😊
Correct the mistakes .
One of his best recording ever 👏 beautiful lyrics and a fantastic song 🎵❤love it so much ❤. He'll never be forgotten dylan is a master at his work 💪👷❤
So great to hear people loving this . Of all his songs I live this the most , the vocals the girls the pain that runs throughout. It’s like desire and blood on the tracks and street legal all lead to this song
There's a long distance train rolling through the rain
Tears on the letter I write
There's a woman I long to touch and I missin' her so much
But she's drifting like a satellite
There's a neon light ablaze in the green smoky haze
And laughter down on Elizabeth Street
There's a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone
Where she bathed in a stream of pure heat
Her father would emphasize, you got to be more than street-wise
But he practiced what he preached from the heart
A full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted it to me
The time and the place that we part
There's a babe in the arms of a woman in a rage
And a longtime golden-haired stripper on stage
And she winds back the clock and she turns back the page
Of a book that nobody can write
Oh, where are you tonight?
The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure
To live it you had to explode
And at the last hour of need, we entirely agreed
Sacrifice was the code of the road
I left town at dawn, with Marcel and St. John
Strong men belittled by doubt
I couldn't tell her what my private thoughts were
But she had some way of finding them out
He took dead-center aim, but he missed just the same
She was waiting putting flowers on the shelf
She could feel my despair as I climbed up her hair
And discovered her invisible self
There's a lion in the road, there's a demon escaped
There's a million dreams gone, there's a landscape being raped
As her beauty fades and I watch her undrape
But I won't but then maybe again, I might
Oh, if I could just find you tonight
I fought with my twin, that enemy within
'Til both of us fell by the way
Horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees
While the law looks the other way
Your partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimes
The man you were loving couldn't never get clean
It felt out of place, my foot in his face
But he should've stayed where his money was green
I bit into the root of forbidden fruit
With the juice running down my leg
Then I dealt with your boss, who'd never known about loss
Who always was too proud to beg
There's a white diamond gloom, on the dark side of this room
And a pathway that leads up to the stars
If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise
Just remind me to show you the stars
There's a new day at dawn, and I've finally arrived
If I'm there in the morning, baby, you'll know I've survived
I can't believe it, I can't believe I'm alive
But without you it doesn't seem right
Oh, where are you tonight?
Scars not stars
**WRIGHT**!
My father is schizophrenic and we never got to know each other. The only time we spent together and really saw him connect with me was when I was 14. He played this song and danced with me without saying anything.
Sounds like he was saying something he wanted you to hear
God bless both you both 🏴👍❤️
That’s so incredibly touching ❤.
That's awesome. You brought tear(s) to me on that
Stopped me in my tracks 🤗 God bless you both.
"There's a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this room and a pathway that leads up to the stars
If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, remind me to show you the scars"----those words ring very true to me. Great song Bob!
There's a new day at dawn, and I've finally arrived
If I'm there in the morning, baby, you'll know I've survived
I can't believe it, I can't believe I'm alive
But without you it doesn't seem right
Oh, where are you tonight?
Definitely
"There's a lion in the road, there's a demon escaped" Than you know everything you need to know what he is singing about. The priest and prophet Dylan was never in the business of hiding his true colors.
One of his greatest songs ever. Top 10 easily.
I'm actually beginning to challenge "Visions of Johanna", "Shelter from the Storm", "Jokerman" & "Not Dark Yet"
I'm actually beginning to think this song challenges many of his great songs including these: "Visions of Johanna", "Shelter from the Storm", "Jokerman" & "Not Dark Yet"
Yes, for me it's there with 'Visions of Johanna', 'Changing of the Guards', 'From a Buick 6', and 'Idiot Wind'.
yep, I've got at least 70 top ten Dylan songs.
This whole album is out of this world...can't stop listening thanx MR.DYLAN
It's my fav of his
Out of this world it is, I always thought of it as a portal to another dimension.
Yeah, “Street Legal” never really gets the love it deserves. Great album.
Even the track "New Pony"? That one doesn't do much for me, but I pretty much do love almost all of the album..
Absolutely unbelievable that this song doesn't even have 100k views. Absolutely crazy to me. Epic song... every verse better and better. A tour de force !!!
It does now
Love it
Yes, absolutely epic. Starts slow and the intensity just builds with the backing gospel singers accenting it perfectly.
I'm not up on current artists, but if you know someone recent who does anything like this, please tell me.
@@pluggy86 ah yeah...what's his name? uh, well, maybe not.
I put a like every morning.
Street Legal is so much better than I was led to believe - it has several absolutely brilliant songs! This is one of them!
Agreed, his best album.
Is your love in vain?
Senor
Long Distance train
Changing of the guards
Better talk this over
Who could have all that on one album but Senor Bob?
..Do not ever allow anyone on this Earth lead you to believe anything at all.
This part of the 70s Triptych: "Blood on the Tracks", "Desire" & "Street Legal". If that was your total career you'd be revered as a music legend.
He also has those 7-in-a-row in the 60s. Plus his Gospel Trine. And about 5 brilliant albums subsequent till now with "Rough n Rowdy Ways".
And if someone had brought out a career based on the 20 albums l haven't mentioned they'd be better than Bob Seger or Jimmy Buffet and equal to Jim Croce.
When Bob released Idiot Wind, I thought that was the ultimate. Then he wrote this and I thought, WOW, there is no end to this man's story telling in poetry genius.
To right Mary I agree with you the man is genius 🏴🎸🕶️👍
I love learning this song's lyrics as much as Black Diamond Bay & Idiot Wind...
I believe this is a companion and flip side to Idiot Wind but a better song, same intensity. Idiot Wind was about rage. This is the grief , sorrow and shock underneath rage
This album and this song are beyond fantastic , what an unbeatable legend .
Been listening to this for forty years. Means so much to me and reminds me of a lost love.
Me too ✋ 😊
Incredible guitar solo at the end!!! 🎸 What a beautiful album. With Desire it's my favorite 🎼
I can't listen to this without crying, filled with love and gratitude.
*******************************
I could cry its that good
This album turned my son into a Dylan fan maybe because he heard 10x a day
Since 66 ive never heard anyone who comes even close to our condition as fallible flawed passionate beings in the best ways possible thankx bobby
there hasn't been anyone, which is kind of sad, but there might come along someone, but I doubt it. It Ain't Me Babe.
those backing vocals though and that fade. sweet jesus. hey hey hey hey
“I won’t, but then maybe again I might…”
Do all old guys (68) like Bob as much as I do ? Great for stepping into the past.
I'm 84 and he still has me on the floor.
Absolutely! Also 68.
Young men too
in the great biography of dylan, which im reading now, by Ian Bell (time out of mind, the lives of bob dylan its called), this song comes up. really enjoying re-visiting a lot of bob thanks to this biography.
An truly epic masterpiece, full of images and beauty. What a end this is to the greatest album of all time, in my humble opinion ❤✌
I respect your taste and preference, and I believe the album is vastly underrated, but it is not his greatest album. There are least 5 greater and far more significant and impactful. And some like John Wesley Harding that have more seminal songs.
Freewheelin'
Bringing it All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde on Blonde
Blood on the Tracks
and that's not even dealing with more modern stuff.
Absolute classic Dylan lyrics vocal everything one of his finest 🎸
Tangled Up In Blue Part 2
Powerful stuff.
Happy Birthday dearest Bob !🎉 Thank you for this, my favorite song !
The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure...
One of my old favourite albums - hear it again and again
All is right with the world. this is available on youtube. thank you Bob
You are thanking Bob for selling the rights to his music, which is probably the reason all his songs are now here for free, the new owner maybe decided that giving access would be good overall for profits? My impression was that when Bob was the owner, he did not want to give everything for free. Don't get me wrong, I adore Bob, but that's how it is I think.
There’s a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze
Laughter down on Elizabeth Street
Bob Dylan got paid in millions and there is laughter down on Elizabeth Street.
Street Legal continues to be my favorite.album...but I love all Dylan's works. "Oh, if I could just find you tonight."
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
Sacrifice is the code of the road… then that leads to: oh Mercy! Thanks for sharing codes of the road with us BOB, have a good day brother!
Yes, you sacrifice on your first step. Props to Jack Kerouac and I give as much love to this song, as the rest.
He is probably talking about the Amygdala and its functionality,
Mum sacrifices Dad and the babies and disconnects her Amygdala, when she is running for her life
What that does to the baby .oh well that's everything
Which he finishes with, IF you don't believe there is a price for this delusion we live in, then the scar is Autism
Love that guitar naked sound the girls singing the hamond organ ... this song is simply perfect as the whole album.
Great song by genius Bob.
Had it on LP.Beautiful memories.
Hot damn, one of the best songs ever written.
With some recent losses this song is as moving as it ever was. I wouldn't give up the scars for anything
One of the Extremely BEST, Gamechanging Life Saver, for me, when it came out💫❣️💥🕊
"And she winds back the clock and she turns back the page, of a book that nobody can write. Oh, where are you tonight?"
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
Dylan has an infinite cannon of great fascinating songs.The king of writers.
Is there anyone that can write like this man? NO! No one today has any inkling of what real writing is. This is truly an experience. Every song he writes is an experience and I have lived them all. Love you Bob and thank you.
You are 100 percent correct.
no
....say, amen ..... it's Cecil B Demille.., footin the bill for Salvadore D's homage to Dante, on Bleeker St & the Catskills (circa 2075).... e.v.e.r.y. . s.i.n.g.l.e. . .word . of . .e.v.e.r.y . line . . packed !!....... if ya keep waitin for one song that's not better than Everything Everybody has written in the last century....(ask senor about That waitin...) And each of Us (feelin like he was in the closet of our room) he's tellin OUR story.... Shakespeare Was quite kool (like the Zim,.... every line packed with sideway jokes that Everyone in the audience got... or was that fillmoreE..?)...anyway, ya never Do find none even-half-a-less-than-stunnin 'cropper'...for sixty frikken years.... A.l.o.n.e. . .at the very-top of the Giza... unparalleled craftsmanship.... other-worldly movies, written in alchemical hieroglyphs...with Total humility.....
when the Swedes called his number, i Was amazed.... not that they Did, but stunned that Even They could know-it !
...this may sound ridiculous... (To some..ok, Most), it wouldn't be the first time i engendered that response, but
Bob Dylan is the Stand-alone pinnacle of Humanity-of-the-20thCentury, Will be studied (assuming We will be less-than-perfect in the Destruction of 3500 years of (so-called) Western Civilization) for c.e.n.t.u.r.i.e.s. . . Period !
...anyway (sorryfortherant) this is, and always has been, my favorite... and, as the capstone of what i consider "The Trilogy of the Return" (BOTT/DESIRE/StLEGAL), it cannot be approached by Any Other 'Cultural/Dramatic/Philosophical/Spiritual/Scientific/Transcendent' event/product/occurrence...certainly in my 72 short laps, around Olde Sol.... he did radical, psychedelic, Kabbalistic mind surgery on Me, many other humans-i-know, and, actually, on said "Western Civilization', all with the self-effacing mania of The Mule (FoundationTrilogy), the barbed tongue of beelzebub-itself, and the utterly humble servitude of the Mahatma Ghandi.... i can hear/feel the 'worldly', cynical snickering in the peanut gallery..... i Honest-2-god Do Not GIVE-A-FUK !!!...i haven't, since 1963, when i Felt a VW drove by Bayside High, and a foreceps/crowbar reached outta the window, cracked my skull & pried my frontal lobe outta my middleclass innocense....
Never to fit back in . . . praise the lord !
peace, love and aloha, . . fellow apostles ............. Our day, is yet to come...
@@chrisandrus689 Well said.
You are so right. Telling a story in complex poetry. Nobel prize deserved absolutely!
Not sure Bob ever got over Sarah. She was a true inspiration.
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
In my top 5 best songs of Bob Dylan.
I agree. But Bob listed it the last one.😅
@@davidsaborit5091 where can I find that?
@@ryansim7818Sorry: I think I made a grammar mistake. I would mean that this song is the last one in the album "street legal". One wonderful song in the last place of the album songs list.
Bob Dylan, with T S Eliot, William Yeats and W H Auden, is one of the four great English language poets of the 20th poets.
Hell no there is No One Like Bob Dylan. Alexis always playing him at our house😁😆😘🥰😎✌️🙌👏👏👏
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
This is such a great, great underrated song. I remember being floored when I first heard it. It is so dense with feeling, lyrics, imagery, cultural and religious-spiritual references. It is at once both agonizingly personal yet universal at the same time.
One thing about Dylan. He always had/has this capacity for staggeringly deep feeling and in his music
be excruciatingly vulnerable. I feel this song is a companion to :Idiot Wind" in intensity but the flip side. That was rage, this is grief and sorrow which is underneath rage.
The last verse (actually all of them) is astonishing. It conveys about 6 emotions at once, of a man who has been through a crucible (the final loss of his marriage which was such a shelter for him), the realization he will survive but a total shock that the unthinkable has happened. Now he must move on. Blood on the Tracks and Desire had a lot of coyness amidst incredible pain ("You're a Big Girl Now") but there is not one shred of coyness here. It is incredibly raw. Only Cohen (and maybe Lennon) could also do this on such a consistent level of excellence.
Dylan filled this void with vapidity (fundamentalism) for quite a while, which is not who he really is.
That may be the finest Dylan-related comment I have ever read, @kenkaplan3654
@@davebagley709 Thank you very much. I comment extensively on most classic Dylan songs, especially official versions but a lot of reactions and have commented a lot on "Tastes Like Music", Dylan appreciation series getting Joe to like Dylan and and "Calico Silver". . You might lie this. One person said he could never make sense of Tombstone Blues until he read my take. I have expanded some things since I wrote it. I think "Geometry of innocent flesh on the bone refers also to the cold ruthless calculation of the war that was often expressed in "math" (body counts).
Also "The king of the Philistines his soldiers to save"
"King of the Philistines" refers to Johnson and a society devoid of any appreciation of the sacred or culture (a dominant theme of "It's All Right Ma")
"Puts jawbones on their tombstones and flatters their graves"
Samson used the jawbone of an ass to defeat the Philistines. Here the roles are perverted-inverted as the American soldiers are falsely cast in the role of heroes and the politicians try to flatter those who have been slaughtered as such.
"Puts the pied pipers in prison and fattens the slaves" Those in opposition to war go to prison, those literally in bondage to the draft are fattened like cattle
"Then sends them out to the jungle" (Guess where that is?)
Tombstone Blues -"One of my all time favorite songs. A ferocious assault on society in all its dysfunction and inhumane nature, companion to album title song (Highway 61 Revisited), Desolation Row and Ballad of a Thin Man and particularly the Vietnam war (*Tombstone* Blues-" dead soldiers)
Each "Verse" is two stanzas
First verse- point counterpoint. The landscape is corrupt filled with the horror at the top (Jack the Ripper-head of chamber of commerce). To try validate their policies they try to revive patriotism (reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse).
Belle Star was a famous outlaw of incredible guile who here "hands down her wits" linking the city fathers to outrageous crime
Jezebel- was an infamous woman but here is a nun
She 'violently knits"- knitting is usually a serene activity
A bald wig- wigs can't be bald
Jack the Ripper who sits-public servants at the top who are the most horrific killers.
Second verse- don't get so literal
It's an assault on Puritanical sexual mores
Hysterical *bride* not a prostitute, "just been made" had sex perhaps outside convention
Medicine man--unconventional healer, quit crying , it's not that big a deal
Third verse- assault on religion and the war
Biblical references conflate Jesus being twisted for immoral purposes but it points to Johnson-President
The deep cruelty goes against all Judeo-Christian values, the contempt by the "Commander in chief" is for everything "the Sun's not yellow, it's chicken", Things are what I say they are fronted by aberrant machismo
Fourth verse-all about the war, soldiers, graves, jungle, blowtorch their camps (I expanded on this at the top
Fifth verse- things are falling apart
"Geometry of innocent flesh on the bone-innocents dying in war,
Galileo's math book to get thrown- all laws and reason (represented by Galileo who opposed the church's irrationality) go out the window, Delilah betrayed Samson I
I cant help anyone, like Bother Bill, using an American happy go lucky reference -How to Win Friends and Influence People
Last verse- once again traditional patriotic-military images
The woman represents something Dylan has loathed for years and is front and center in "It's all Right Ma". a society that swallows the garbage of conventional wisdom
I wish I could help you from going insane and ease the pain of your useless and pointless knowledge.
See Dylan's famous interaction with the Time magazine reporter in "Don't Look Back"
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The frenetic pace of the music matches the insanity Dylan is confronting. There is a great similarity here to Yeats' great poem "The Second Coming".
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
I compare Highway 61 Revisited in song to Picasso's "Guernica". It is a masterpiece
At the end of Highway 61Revisited Dylan has burned himself out in this particular mode of expression. He never again would reach this zenith of artistic attack on what he sees as the grotesque nature of American society, one that would commercialize a world war if it could get away with it. "Desolation Row" begins this withdrawal into seeking a sanctuary of observation, a calming down, but by Blonde on Blonde these forces have emotionally defeated Dylan, highlighted by two great, great songs of despair, "Stuck Inside of Mobile" and the incandescent "Visions of Johanna". Dylan was prone to epic songwriting. "Tangled Up In Blue" is also epic but in an entirely different way.
Thanks again for your comment
He's still free wheelin' Bob Dylan.
Hokey smokes, this is as great as ever! Yeah!
; ))))
What a intro and still bongo and that organ yea choir and the words its complte ❤❤❤
Give me a greater heartache, if you dare
Easy to take this stuff for granted given his fecundity but nobody else can do this.
dare i say it, another one of bobs great songs, that goes under the radar.
I dare to second that.
I overlooked this brilliant &
intense song
- who else could mouth those lyrics?
You may indeed dare [waves scepter]
After the cassettes of Bob this was my first LP I got in 78, played it over and over and over for more than a year, waiting for the next one at that time. Timeless Album. Thank you Bobby❤
Follow up from my comment: I've often cried, listening to this great song, thinking, where are you, my brother? Why did you have to leave me? Where are you tonight?
The constant struggle, It's so sad but so real. It took me being in many awful situations to finally realize that the whole world we live in is a lie. That's the reason for the struggle. Nothing will ever be made right until Jesus Christ returns. I've had to have alot of patience to get to that acknowledgement. Much love to Bob. Love Bob's beautiful voice in his more recent work💖💖💖
55 years!
What do you admire most about Bob
3rd best song on my fave album
Towards the end of a relationship thirty years ago, it seemed like she was never home, always at choir practice. For about six months as she headed out, she put on her shoes to this song.
Never caught on.
I'll forever love this Dylan song. My brother and I had it playing, stuck on "repeat". I'll always remember us together that night, kinda high, my best friend and me letting this song play over and over again that night as we talked and laughed together. I miss you so much Perry. You'll always be my best friend who taught me to love music. Real music!! 💜
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Sounds like he was a cool person.
SUCH s wonderfully painted song. Cx
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
So awesome , got into Dylan in 1990 age 23 , this album is just so amazing been so long like never been away thanks for posting 👍🏻
Never ceases to amaze me with the lyrics.
The years knowing Blood on the Tracks and then Desire and earlier, suddenly after ages we got this... my word did it resonate... And then we got Blackbushe.... Remind me to show you the scars... I can't believe it, I can't believe I am alive... wowsers. I am an old bird now but this is just great
What a cracking song
Absolutely powerful lyrics
Unbelievable what a song!journey through dark heat🙏
This song is soo good, can't get enough. As Rolling Stone said about Dylan years ago, 'Nobody is better, no one is even close'.
Great track. He makes you pay for that chorus but its worth it
Street Legal appears to be getting better every 5 years. It is a true gem.
The songs are just as amazing. And a nod to the man he most regrets not meeting: Bob Marley.
This song is one of my favorites. He never plays it as far as I have seen with my own eyes and ears live but it is one of my favorite gems of his. Well done. Long ago I thought he only played it less than a handful of times. That's why I don't believe anything I hear, read and half of what I see. How could he refrain from howling this one. It pulls on my heart strings.
Saw a show on the street legal tour in 78. His band at the time had that rolling thunder revue flavor. Very Excellent!!
Witnessed that same tour
Then the Slow Train tour
Epic.
Atlanta's Fox Theater
My favo LP vinyl as from ‘70’s (78?)
This song so painful yet a Beauty
Words at a loss re. such recognizable loss of a great Love. Thank youu Bob Dylan❣️🌺❣️
Over the years, I have learned the lyriçs & the creeping intensity in this song by sheer repetition... no better one to know .
WOW! What a beautiful song...Love it ❤
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
This is art.
Cracking album to be fair what a songwriter amazing stuff 😎🎸 y 🏴
Wow is all I can honestly say in response to most of his songs.
"I can't believe it..can't believe I'm alive cuz without you it doesn't seem right..oh where are you tonight?" Oh how this (obscure) song speaks to me!
This song plays the greatest movie in the world (in my head) God bless Dylan x
Bob Dylan Forever
Bob Bob Fantástico
Love and love
Grande Dylan …
" If you don't think there's a price for this sweet paradise, Just remind me to show you the scars."
This has a very Walk On The Wild Side feel and chord progression
perfection
Love this one
Philosophy
A brilliant song and the album is one of bobs best, i remember listning to it live at the blackbush arodrome consert of 1978, 250 thousand attendance, nicknamed the hippies graveyard the first bob concert for me , ranked number one of 8 , number 2 is rough and rowdy ways tour 2022 motorpoint arena nottingham england.
Revisiting this song after 43 years and being baptised through lifes trials and tribulations in various locations and on various streets in the world plus aquanting myself with the great writers through time down through to the Greeks and beyond you realize that Dylan had the God given Minerals and the Spheres that song writers of today just cannot get to.
Love this album