Bob Dylan - Tempest (Official Audio)
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- Official Audio for "Tempest" by Bob Dylan
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Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
The pale moon rose in its glory
Out o'er the Western town
She told a sad, sad story
Of the great ship that went down
#BobDylan #Tempest #Folk - Hudba
I can’t stop listening to this song. The poetry, imagery, lilt, tempo…absolutely hauntingly brilliant! They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, Bob’s words are worth a thousand pictures!
Yep
Yes!
i would say a billion pictures
Magia
Vedo il paradiso
Dylan has written over 500 songs over 60 years, performed by over 2,000 artists. Why not write a 45 verse ballad of poetic mastery. Who else can do that?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge!
Nobody. Dylan is the ultimate living poet laureate, Dylan is a genius. Take care.
@@gerrycurran8966 you got that right . Who besides Dylan and Shakespeare have been studied in University ?
@@nancyrobinson7764 Perhaps Edgar Allen Poe
Hail Lucifer!!!
Whiskey and smoke of his voice 😊 What a master! Amen.🇬🇧🏴
Totally brilliant, a masterpiece. Incredible use of the English language. Nobody has ever deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature more than this genius. Downunder, South Australia
Dude u are spot on✌🏻😎
True Bro 😎 ! I dare to say Bob’s command of the English language, has not been surpassed. He is a genius, a savant, an autodidact.I’ve read a lot of old literature and Bob is supreme amidst them. Perhaps this is reflected in Hamlet’s words to Horacio : “there are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”.
I’ve just re read Chronicles! Brilliant.🇬🇧🏴
Totally agree, Cheers
I can’t count the number of times I’ve listened to this. I will never stop. Dylan has a way with words.
Genius. God bless Bob.
He surely has!!!
Me as well! Bob’s command of the English language is unsurpassed. Stand aside Shakespeare.
@@nancyrobinson7764 Dylan has the ability to paint a masterpiece in a persons mind. Look at anything, and he will tell you, what you see.
Bob you are a wonder, that we are blessed with.
A beautiful ballad of Bob, with many Celtic airs...
Celtic airs - ??? That is so funny.
Mind is officially blown. What song writing
incredible masterpiece the song is loaded it is a huge boat full of majesty & characters like the titanic
LYRICS:
The pale moon rose in its glory
Out on the Western town
She told a sad, sad story
Of the great ship that went down
It was the fourteenth day of April
Over the waves she rode
Sailing into tomorrow
To a golden age foretold
The night was black with starlight
The seas were sharp and clear
Moving through the shadows
The promised hour was near
Lights were holding steady
Gliding over the foam
All the lords and ladies
Heading for their eternal home
The chandeliers were swaying
From the balustrades above
The orchestra was playing
Songs of faded love
The watchman, he lay dreaming
As the ballroom dancers twirled
He dreamed the Titanic was sinking
Into the underworld
Leo took his sketchbook
He was often so inclined
He closed his eyes and painted
The scenery in his mind
Cupid struck his bosom
And broke it with a snap
The closest woman to him
He fell into her lap
He heard a loud commotion
Something sounded wrong
His inner spirit was saying
That he couldn't stand here long
He staggered to the quarterdeck
No time now to sleep
Water on the quarterdeck
Already three foot deep
Smokestack was leaning sideways
Heavy feet began to pound
He walked into the whirlwind
Sky splitting all around
The ship was going under
The universe had opened wide
The roll was called up yonder
The angels turned aside
Lights down in the hallway
Flickering dim and dull
Dead bodies already floating
In the double bottom hull
The engines then exploded
Propellers they failed to start
The boilers overloaded
The ship's bow split apart
Passengers were flying
Backward, forward, far and fast
They mumbled, fumbled, and tumbled
Each one more weary than the last
The veil was torn asunder
'Tween the hours of twelve and one
No change, no sudden wonder
Could undo what had been done
The watchman lay there dreaming
At forty five degrees
He dreamed that the Titanic was sinking
Dropping to her knees
Wellington he was sleeping
His bed began to slide
His valiant heart was beating
He pushed the tables aside
Glass of shattered crystal
Lay scattered roundabout
He strapped on both his pistols
How long could he hold out?
His men and his companions
Were nowhere to be seen
In silence there he waited for
Time and space to intervene
The passageway was narrow
There was blackness in the air
He saw every kind of sorrow
Heard voices everywhere
Alarm-bells were ringing
To hold back the swelling tide
Friends and lovers clinging
To each other side by side
Mothers and their daughters
Descending down the stairs
Jumped into the icy waters
Love and pity sent their prayers
The rich man, Mister Astor
Kissed his darling wife
He had no way of knowing
It'd be the last trip of his life
Calvin, Blake and Wilson
Gambled in the dark
Not one of them would ever live to
Tell the tale on the disembark
Brother rose up 'gainst brother
In every circumstance
They fought and slaughtered each other
In a deadly dance
They lowered down the lifeboats
From the sinking wreck
There were traitors, there were turncoats
Broken backs and broken necks
The bishop left his cabin
To help others in need
Turned his eyes up to the heavens
Said, "The poor are yours to feed"
Davey the brothel-keeper
Came out dismissed his girls
Saw the water getting deeper
Saw the changing of his world
Jim Dandy smiled
He never learned to swim
Saw the little crippled child
And he gave his seat to him
He saw the starlight shining
Streaming from the East
Death was on the rampage
But his heart was now at peace
They battened down the hatches
But the hatches wouldn't hold
They drowned upon the staircase
Of brass and polished gold
Leo said to Cleo
I think I'm going mad
But he'd lost his mind already
Whatever mind he had
He tried to block the doorway
To save all those from harm
Blood from an open wound
Pouring down his arm
Petals fell from flowers
'Til all of them were gone
In the long and dreadful hours
The wizard's curse played on
The host was pouring brandy
He was going down slow
He stayed right to the end and he
Was the last to go
There were many, many others
Nameless here forever more
They never sailed the ocean
Or left their homes before
The watchman, he lay dreaming
The damage had been done
He dreamed the Titanic was sinking
And he tried to tell someone
The captain, barely breathing
Kneeling at the wheel
Above him and beneath him
Fifty thousand tons of steel
He looked over at his compass
And he gazed into its face
Needle pointing downward
He knew he'd lost the race
In the dark illumination
He remembered bygone years
He read the Book of Revelation
And he filled his cup with tears
When the Reaper's task had ended
Sixteen hundred had gone to rest
The good, the bad, the rich, the poor
The loveliest and the best
They waited at the landing
And they tried to understand
But there is no understanding
On the judgment of God's hand
The news came over the wires
And struck with deadly force
Love had lost its fires
All things had run their course
The watchman he lay dreaming
Of all the things that can be
He dreamed the Titanic was sinking
Into the deep blue sea
Genius
Thanks ❣
Genius
This is prose most beautiful
😲😱 I LOVE YOUR PROSE. Thank you Bob Dylan. Will listen to your songs for the rest of my days. 💘
I believe this is one of the most layered, complex songs Bob has ever written. 60+ years after he began he gave us this. I mean.
Agreed, there’s nobody that compares to Bob’s mastery of some 280, thousand English words! A total savant ! It has to be God given as no mortal is competition ❤️😎
Excellent but I slightly prefer Murder Most Foul.
I can't believe I'm just now listening to this for the first time. It is not only beautiful, but it also takes you along an incredible journey. I love it, Bobby. Thank you so much! ❤🚢💧
Really folk Singer in 50 years❤
A masterpiece by a master of poetry and song writing Bob Dylan. It is simply a very true tale by a true artist and wordsmith. A tale of historical meaning
this song is three levels above brilliant
*I love the subtle percussion near the end. It was a great idea to keep the arrangement simple and not overwhelm the lyrics. Bob is the master, I don't think anyone is even in second place.*
Apparently he once said that Leonard Cohen was #1. Asked "so what position are you?", he responded "Oh, I'm zero". Deliciously ambiguous.
@@patrickthomas3633 He was an album titled, _Various Positions_ (1984) that's where, "Hallelujah" comes from. ☺
@@GordonCaledonia I know that but I don't see the relevance?
@@patrickthomas3633 Deliciously ambiguous! 😶
daylight is second...
You're so good sins 80's
And special in last 20 years...
It's so hurt that it so touching...
I think about you every day and afried from the day that you'll not be here
Hope you live long...
Erik, from israel
The voice is magic...
The song evokes the ocean's roll within the tale. Beautiful.
Never ceases to make tears fall.
This song is PURE art.
Such a severe and brutal song.
Après avoir écouté un tel chef d'œuvre maintenant je suis aux anges, et dire qu'il y en encore qui demande pourquoi Dylan s'est ramasser le prix Nobel de littérature !
A remarkable, gentil song refined with a star gazer's gallant image of the sinking Titanic. Lauded for the marvel of steel, best of the world class fineries, passengers of the highest and lowest stations, they danced to their final hour, submerged in the deepest iceberg dorries, thrashing to and fro, haunted by the orchestral notes which foretold a grim, shadow of premature death on a clear frosty night of no return. Bonny enough for the solemn coronation of King Charles III who indeed resurrected the wreckage out of Atlantis. This is your finest masterpiece, Master of Ceremonies - Mr. Bob Dylan! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
You can dance to it.. that's really great - Like the ballroom dancers. dance to the end of time into the Underground..into the big blue sea..great dark humor..Bob you're a real nobel-prize winner!!!
True. Like at a ball out of time and space! Only Mr. Dylan can do this!
@@_fabio1978
Jackson Browne comes very close...
@yama penny nobody asked
You can dance to it? About Bob dying from AIDS related histoplasmosis?
I love this tune I listen to it all the time I also use it as a timer if I have to be somewhere I know I can listen to it four times because by then I’ll be dressed and ready to go
Hello Dear, It’s nice meeting you on here
youtake almost much time to get ready and head out the door as i do myself, I also love this song, yet it is a masterpiece, another one of Bob's great works and he has got many
Just beautiful.
An amazing song
Had a blast @Radio City with a young couple from Perth I believe Aussies they we're buying drinks went back , fro with em what a night gave away back stage passes ahh so enjoyed it course Bob did acoustic watchtower with some other favorites time's changing countless hits that evening blends into Princeton NJ shows that whole tour Spot On!!!
Brilliant genius lyrics
unbelievebale Dylan Thank God or his talent!!!
I love u bob Zimmerman dylan like I said it does not get better than u your talented smart and I've been privileged to listen to u im not worthy I play the piano but I never got my dream but I hope you have all musicians have a destiny a dream I got to meet u yrs ago it was the best night of my life I know u were singing to me thanks
Well stated concerning not being able to stop listening. Agreed 💯
I love Bob Dylan and I love this epic song. Fan since hearing Positively 4rth St on Chicago 'underground' radio in '68.
Saw Mr. Dylan and Band in Seattle and Bend, Oregon on my birthday this '22 tour. Never heard this song though til recently. Feel like that old crazy TV preacher:
"Play it again!" Commiting this song to memory may help prevent dementia...just saying. Shakespeare, Homer and
Bob Dylan will trade chops in eternity.
Who am I to review the shows but both were as good as it gets.
Bob and Band. Never before heard his piano (nice upright)
so consistently present and leading ike Count Basie if you will. Tony Garnier never sounded better or looked more relaxed and having fun. New drummer Charlie Drayton is amazing. Donnie Herring is back. Europeans go.
Herron
Eccezionale
My dad from Denmark b -29 never learned english but he loved country happy merry country music and he loved walz, schottis, tango an excellent dancer + 85 . Singing in his trucks he rode around all Sweden, and singing was his only company in his life at work. And he loved fairy tales and old ships especially sailing ships, and his brothers during and after WWII were all to sea as sailors ,
But my dad was grieving all his life his elder brothers never brought him to travel at sea as real sailors, so he collected paintings of sail ships, and he learned play accordeon and knew as Danish better Swedish trad. poet Evert Taube, than any of the Swedish people around him, all his songs a couple of hundereds and never missed one verse and Taube often composed in walz, and about his adventures in Argentina and Cuba and dramas far away at sea and lost ships and sailors . I translated a few of Dylans songs, but it was uncertain if he apprecieted them. BUT THIS LOVELY LOVELY WALZ AND STORY ---OHHH HOW I WISHED HE WOULD SHARE TEMPEST WITH ME, AND MAYBE HE FINALLY WOULD UNDERSTAND WHO I REALLY WAS ABOUT PREFERENCES , AND I WISH WISH IN VAIN HE WOULD HAVE SHARED THIS WITH ME I AM SURE HE WOULD HAVE NAMED IT THE BEST HE EVER HEARD Dylan sings with power and force in a way when as never any others of his song - perfect for the dramas sailors experience.
The fiddle 🎻 solo @10:46, even though it was only a 15 second riff, is just a masterpiece
Grande e grazie Signor Dylan.
Brilliant ! Thank you so much to Mr Dylan.
One More Great Masterpiece!!!...
God has blessed this man. This song is brilliant. But his highlights were slow train and saved
Nice work Bob love it.
Una tempesta di emozioni
Such a gr8 song lyrically of such torrid events, again a master at his best 👌 .
In memory of the
Great Ship TITANIC
Titanic ride with Bob... This guy is so different I can't get out of the song...
Brilliant 💎💙
Superlative!
Dylan wrote a song about the titanic in 13 min that would fill a book of 300 pages.
One of the best.
Maestro
The history of humanity.
BOB, I 💜 U
❤🍇 thanks
When it comes to Rms Titanic I have a very special connection to that ship,cause I had a lots of dreams about that night,after seeing a night to remember filmed after the book from Walther Lord..Later I found out that a part of my family in 1912 wanted to immigrant to America and bought a ticket for the third class on Titanic...The world is a village,idn't it ? Anyway_God Moves On The Water.........Great song🙏
I heard the song today that Dylan wrote about The loss of the Titanic. Another Remarkable Bob Dylan!
Larry Davies
Best Dylan poem ever!!!
Love it even i do not understand anythink 😃
I needed an antidote from the endless articles about Taylor Swift, so I listened to a few songs from Tempest. This song never fails to bring tears. Makes me feel like I was on the deck.
We're all on the deck, but only a few people see the iceberg that's looming in the fog.
Tanks bob is Biutifol song god bless yuo
Thanks Bob.. 👍
El maestro de todo esto.
Love it!
Thank you..
one of my favorite songs , comment from china
Love this👍👍👍👍👍👍💙💙💙💙💙💙
I have just got to hear Bob Dylan's music for the first time in my long life of living would in what some people call the wild out back where no electricity poles stand, I believe this man is something special, he is a great storyteller, his words floats like a Kite as it reaches great heights high up in the sky I feel he has a great connection to God, William Butler Yeats and my long ago distant cousin William Shakespeare.
Wow it’s never to late to be exposed to THE MAN😎enjoy it😘
Not an illusion been saying fore yrs not since the Bard has any had/has such ... My other favorites Tolstoy Bobbys all of em and bag of chips/trix since/ before Bangladesh in NYC loved , admired astonished by his writings Dylan Thomas should be honored he chose namesake suggest you sir start listening from very beginning it each verse song even has or takes in more meaning if that's possible bobby romantic humorists @Heart & I'm barley stracthing the surface.! Or could leave best comment No Words description))) my man caught him few times Radio City & Princeton was a hoot still my best concert ever was 30 anniversary show Columbia records put on for him wooo yeah
@@chrismaloney7073 Thanks Chris for the information
@@martinboersma763, I fully agree with you.
🌊🌊🌊
Vida longa a Bob Dylan
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
He just Sing & Dance!!!
Belíssima.
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greatest bobpoem
When the Holy Spirit wants to talk, He does.
the chandeliers were swaying from the balustrades above - Gaslight - Basement venue
No one better than Dylan. A good
companion piece to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
And now, with the tragedy of those searching for the Titanic's wreck behind us, the song takes on a prophetic edge.
Storyteller Bob has some things to say to you.
Listening to this for the ~250th time I amstill feeling it to be a milestone in the history of coivilization. Panoramic, in the tradtion og It’s Alright Ma, Chjimes of Freedom, Hard Rain, Shelter From the Storm, Thunder on the Mountain, Every Grain pf Sand, Forever Young, Changing of the Guard.
And so many others.
@@thomasperry1838 I think so too. It tells the story of humanity in very clear, true, dynamic terms. An iceberg took them down but humanity's spiritual tempest swallowed them up.
@@thomasperry1838 Yes!!
Dylan paints pictures with his words.
👌👌😎
I get IT!!!
Hello Dear, it’s nice meeting you on here!
The Titanic is a metaphor for Earth, the passengers for Mankind, the sinking for the End Times, the watchman is Dylan.
Oh, and Leo is Jesus LOL
That’s one way of looking at it ✌🏻
And the final judgement is God's.......Biblical references are everywhere in this poetry
I forgot about this one
Almost perfect. Almost.
Why isnt it?
Because it reminds me of Camerons crappy Titanic movie especially a naked Winslet as "Leo took his sketchbook" 😂
I never give my life to this country again
*Amazing that a Jewish kid from up in the freezing North who was brought to explosive life by a flamboyant and outrageous but supremely spiritual gay black man down South who pounded the piano would come up with an emotional epic song about the **_Titanic_** - that's some crazy shit, baby!*
Go with the flow, my man😊
@@GD-rd6ig Flo? Never met her!
Zimmerman is a talkin fotograph❤
He heard a loud commotion
Something sounded wrong
His inner spirit was saying
That he couldn't stand here long this is the key - another song about his career. He heard people booing his music sounded like rock not folk but he had with folk
A person almost has to respect not only that you're still living, but that you're still harassing and obsessed with Bob Dylan more than half a century later.
@@whiskeycitydiggers You are practicing garbology without a license!
A song for lost children please you can do this maybe it's just you Bob
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If they only knew who Bob Dylan really is....
Read Chronicles and find out. Nobel prize for literature, y won’t be disappointed it reads just like his songs.🇬🇧🏴
Tribute to HMS Titanic... Let her RIP
Boa, boa gosto.
No change no sudden wonder can undo what had been done....no cure - still no cure
More cowbell!
Epifânia experiência
The Ancient Mariner
Damn it’s the fourteenth day of April today!
He dreamed Bob Dylan was sinkin' droppin to his knees
Poet.
My Dad doesn't comment on CZcams, but here are his thoughts via an e-mail he sent me:
"I had never heard this song - didn't know it existed. The music is Celtic. It must be his regular band - they never miss a beat. Bob's voice is terrific: passionate, grim, and empathetic. It's a great story, of course, and he just couldn't resist giving us his take. The rhymes are simple and confident, and the beat is as certain as doom. Thanks."
Thanks for saying what I was trying to❤you Pops
not too bad.
Bit of a shame this has only had 4,755 views. As it is very well researched & thought out. Unfortunately, I am not as well read as you Zimmy, so some of your references I do not "get". As I am running a business, regrettably I don't have time to research the lyric's that I don't understand. Simon. NZ
oh yeah, I get you... working class hero. Good.
Tempest is not a retelling of the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic did not sink in a storm, but hit an iceberg. Tempest may be reminiscent of Shakespeare, but different from what most people think.The Titanic was considered unsinkable, as was our culture, but it happened because the Watchman was dreaming.." the watchman/ he lay dreaming / As the ballroom dancers twirled/ He dreamed the Titanic was sinking/ Into the underworld".
It's a wake-up call, an artistically sophisticated wake-up call. We are the watchman and we are dreaming, Like in Shakespeare' s Tempest:
"We are such stuff/ As dreams are made on/ and our little life / is rounded with a sleep"
and Bob:
The watchman he lay dreaming/ in the Things that can be/ he dreamed the Titanic was sinking into the deep blue sea
What?! Here you are making yet another brilliant comment.
It depends on interpretation. It could be about the real Titanic, just told as a song in a more metaphorical way, and not straight forward facts.
While I agree that this could be a metaphor for a wake up call for us because Bob has been known to do such with his songs. But it’s definitely a retelling of the Titanic. He even says, He dreamed the Titanic was sinking also with references to J.J. Astor, the ship’s double hull and it being the 14th day of April. The Titanic sank April 14, 1912. Not sure where you got that the ship in this song was in a storm when neither a storm or iceberg either one are mentioned or alluded to.
@@TeamTaylor1114 exactly! And also... we should mind that Tempest (the Bob Dylan album on which this song appears) was released in 2012... So it's a straight forward reference - Dylan sort of released this album on the anniversary day of sinking of the Titanic; to be precise 100 years later, so it was Titanic's sinking 100th anniversary. We just can't ignore this obvious reference!