Bob Dylan - Key West (Philosopher Pirate) (Official Audio)
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- ”Key West (Philosopher Pirate)” by Bob Dylan
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Lyrics:
Key West is the place to be
If you're looking for immortality
Stay on the road, follow the highway sign
Key West is fine and fair
If you lost your mind, you will find it there
Key West is on the horizon line
#BobDylan #KeyWest #OfficialAudio - Hudba
Some day this giant of a man won’t be around anymore. I just can’t wrap my head around that. If only I could wrap my arms around him one time to show him how much he’s meant to me. Love ya, Bobby. I’m sticking with you through and through…
Long live Bob Dylan
I try to look at the truth of life. I believe in heaven and eternity and good things to come.
Bob is our voice and he evokes that love we all carry and long to express. Even when all hope is lost He gives me hope , he is still humming his beautiful tunes after all these years 😢❤😢❤😢❤
I'd be right there with you. We're all heading to Key West.
Oh you
Sometimes when I'm having a bad day I sit alone by myself at 3am and listen to Bob Dylan, I'm 24 years old haven't even been around a fraction of the time as Dylan but something about his music reaches through all the time and space and connects with me and so many others in such a profound way I will be forever grateful for that Bob Dylan changed the way I see things forever
While in college, I woke up one morning to The Jack of Hearts. Blood on the Tracks became my favorite album. Got married in 1983. Our daughter developed brain cancer, and was treated in Boston until she died at 5 in 1998 after a year. I drove back and forth from Binghamton to and from Boston. Time Out of Mind kept me company. And then, Dylan gifted us with this. My beautiful wife passed away in August. I almost feel like Dylan was a member of my family.
I'm really sorry to hear about your daughter and your wife. One day you will reunite with them and embrace in the Lords Kingdom.
God love n bless em both .. best wishes from Ireland
We've all lived during Bob Dylan's lifetime. That's some honour.
I keep hearing that comment from people of every age. Remarkable.
Indeed. That's a good way of putting it.
well said my friend. now we need to figure out what kind of world we're all going to be leaving for Keith Richards.
@@ghostdance56 Lmao
I first heard Bob in 1963, I was just 16, but here I realized was this guy telling me that this is another way a man could be.
This song could last forever. It starts, it flows, and it keeps running in your blood like it was part of yourself since the day you were born til the day of your death. It was already there, but we didn't knew it yet.
I love the way you have described this song. You have described exactly the way I feel when I listen to it. Thank you.
I love this song, its so atmospheric,I look at the album cover and I want to be in that bar.
@@stevewilson6017 saw the man a few days ago here in Sacramento's best Memorial Audit...need some work on the audio though, whatever....LOLs, maybe it was just me..... nope!
🎶🌺Exactly🌺🎶
Amen! Every time I make the hour drive to my hometown to take my daughter to visit grandma I play this album...
I believe this to be one of Bob Dylan's finest. He has kept me going for quite a few years I am an eighty-year-old man lost down here in Mexico. I just could not make it in the state's any longer I know he will never read this but if it wasn't for him I would have already been gone thank you Bob Dylan for all your great work
Under The Volcano. One of thee saddest novels I've ever read. And Neal Cassady died along the railroad.tracks in Mexico.
@@albertmillus9637 Great comment .
I am with you my friend!!!
Keep pushin’ on!!
this song its a massive masterpiece. Im 29 and i didnt want to miss the opportunity of watch Bobby in live, so i was to Paris alone to watch him. It was absolutely amazing. I will never forget this day.
I was there too 🙌
The more often you hear Rough and Rowdy Ways, the deeper these songs sink into you. become a part of you. This category doesn't exist at Grammy's.
Just took a long drive with this LP playing. You're right - but this song is so majestic, it reveals itself again and again with new texture and wave. How the hell can Dylan be THIS good so late in life?
@@braybeatles1 yes it is majestic , I think it was for a long time in his head it is the sound of infinity
True, but don't worry about Grammys or Nobels or Oscars. These music, and what it bring to us, is much higher than this...
@@braybeatles1 Yes, but i think it is precisely that it is 'so late in life' that this can be written
@@gramolarevival9098 that's so very true. The warm weariness in his voice, those magical words, the warm accordion. This is such a gorgeous song of astonishing beauty.
Didn’t think it was possible, but he’s improved with age. Greatest songwriter the world’s ever known imho.
Yup. In my opinion, this album has his strongest songwriting of all time. My Own Version Of You is an insanely well written song too. He’s on the top of his game
That's a big shout - but yeah I agree 👍
It's sure to get better!
I agree, I've always liked Cohen and Simon too, but Dylan is a step above for me.
Maybe not his best songwriting, he doesn’t really have a “best”’imo, amazingly written songs on every album. Leonard Cohen, Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine are up there as well
I'm Russian 🇷🇺 and Bob Dylan songs helped me learn English so much. I listen to this every night and my mind relaxing...
Such a masterpiece! 👍🤠
Bravo 👏 Bob!!!!!
Your English is very good. Greetings from Minnesota. Are there any Russian musicians that remind you of Bob Dylan ?
If this is Dylan’s last album what a perfect way to end 60 years of greatness (I really hope we get one more album)
Can you imagine the pressure of writing good songs after winning the Nobel Prize?. Most would have cracked. But he delivered. Big time.
Tempest was a good album. This one is a masterpiece. One more cup of Dylan for the road. Incredible. The singer of our lives. The voice of millions.
Well said
Nailed it man.
lol I prefer Tempest, has much better melodies and lyrics.
The most remarkable thing about Dylan is that his later writing is as good as his earlier writing. Usually, even the greatest artists are unable to sustain the quality of their early years - they might still produce some really good work but the consistency isn't there. Dylan is the rare exception. He has a unique gift. Many people write well in their early years, but who else has ever sustained it for seven decades?
true, agree, however the 80s were pretty much a swale for Bob, I think...except for Jokerman, a few songs....Oh Mercy was good, but man, Under a Red Sky, Knocked Out Loaded, Empire Burlesque, et al, they weren't very consistent, at least i don't think so ....he really seemed to get it together after Man Out of Time, ever since then a nice streak, impressive....
I mean this is a great song from a great album, but almost no one would claim his later output was truly as good as his output during the 60s. Even Dylan himself, in that famous interview with 60 Minutes (I think) said that he looks back at his music from that time with awe, that he has no idea how he did it, and that he knows he can’t do it anymore. He said he doesn’t even feel like he wrote those songs, like they were just channeled through him. He referenced “It’s Alright Ma” as an example, saying he has no idea how he wrote songs that good and can’t do it anymore. It’s ok, it happens to basically every artist. His new stuff is still very good. But we shouldn’t pretend that Rough And Rowdy is Highway 61 Revisited or Blonde On Blonde.
@@therainman7777 I think that interview was from the Scorsese doc
I aint' pretending : it is as good, if not better. As artists mature ; the art develops . Give it time , so will you .@@therainman7777
Just shared this song with my friend of 57 years. We’ve been following Bobby for over 50 years.
What a sweet life!
I just shared it with my friend of 58 years and we've been following Dylan for 51 years! Nyahhhhh!
Nice. We’ve traveled the same trails, and here we are, over 50 years later. 🎶🎶🎶😊😊
57 years for me. Since, 1963
Since I first heard "Like a Rolling Stone ". 1965.
You could walk alone down a long and winding road, swim across the seven oceans, climb a steep snowy mountain with a smile on your face if you had Bob Dylan singing the song in your ears,
Incredible..
What a mind and theatre
Thanks for words👌James Bradshaw!
I’m sure you can on your ears.. Giving you strenght every path in life.. Thanks to DearDylan❣️👌
@@0otee Thank you Olga Tee for your very kind words, Bob is the man to tell a story and give the best warning advise.
@@0otee Say it to me if you got something to confess... :)
@@markanon5581 Well.. eh Mark I’ll confess ... that I Love this Song amongst most others of Dylan.. The Best right now!
It gives me the ‘Out of this World Feeling’ 🌺🌞👌 And now its your turn..😁
This song is tremendous, beyond words. This song is life.
Grammy time
..Again!
Already in the pantheon of Dylan's greatest songs. This is the third part of a trilogy: After the Lowlands and the Highlands, he's now given us the Flatlands.
I like that, Lowlands, Highlands and Flatlands
Incredible. End of.
Superb observation
Whatever. It's good. I really love him.
Judith Mcdonald Well said, Judith.
To me, this is some of Dylan’s best poetry, he is profound, old, and wise.
So true, Carolyn Zonailo. Just a tremendous album. Truly a gift to humanity.
sometimes I think he's Shakespeare reincarnated ;)
It is just rubbish
The entire album is fantastic. Dylan is an icon. His songs are a legacy to humanity.
go tell it on the mountain
Beautifully said
This album is weak
00maniacmanny00 How tho?
Well said, Thamires
The despair and the slow abandonement combined with that good old Dylan' charm makes this song shine. At the age of 79. Waw. Amazing
Unreal. Coolest old teenager
😜😜😜😜🤣🤣🤣✳️✳️☪️🕉️🔯🕎
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Gobsmacked. He's surpassed himself. Extraordinary album. I don't remember enjoying a Friday this much before.
Best Friday evening in many a month for me as well...
Wonderful seeing all these comments of people listening to this album on the Friday Eve n just loving it. Fantastic and what an album
Sitting on the porch with the headphones on. Summer night and these songs- doesn't get any better . Thank you Bob Dylan.
And a Neil Young album the same day.
Seriously?! please break give me
As a 59 year old lifetime Dylan fan, this entire album continues to move me beyond words. More so each listen. Especially this song for many personal reasons (and I'm certain many others share it). It's a sad time we live in when Dylan's latest masterpiece is not even considered in the 2020 Grammy awards considering the insane trash that was. Bob Dylan is an international treasure and still making the best music and poetry of the next century!
He has always transcended all categories. You don't need the Grammy if you have the Nobel.
@@ferociousgumby He didn't even need the Noble as far as I'm concerned.
@@jonpyles Right on! But I thought it was rather cool how he kept those Nordic people on hold for sometime leaving them hanging about whether he would show up or not to accept the Nobel. I thought that was super cool, I mean really who needs a Nobel when we have the Lord? Ha - ha, ready for Christmas in July? Why not just make believe!
Just done my top 10 dylan and this closes the set..h 61. Senor. P angel.man in long black coat. B d bay. Mctell. Tin angel. Copper kettle. Grain of sand.key West. From HIGHWAY 61 to key west.an incredible rich journey that has enriched all our lives. God put him on that HIGHWAY and led him 2 key west as bob was always looking for IMMORTALITY
@@sakka9432 Donald Trump also a gemini is currency playing the same game- wether he will run again - just you watch!!
Been a huge Bob fan since my buddy Greg played me 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' in the school cafeteria in Grade 9 - the poetry of that song completely blew me away and sent me down the Bob Dylan rabbit hole, where I've been happy ever since. The whole album is brilliant, but this is my favourite track by far - I could listen to this all day, preferably with that day ending in a sunset over the water somewhere. Bob Dylan is a gift for our collective soul - we're infinitely richer for having shared his time on this planet.
I've been down the rabbit hole for the same length of time as you, and I agree with every word about this album and this song. Its richness is utterly mysterious and if I miss hearing it for a couple of days it brings tears to my eyes when I hear it again.
I've grown to love Bob Dylan's output since Time Out of Mind was released.
Beautifully said you must have a poets soul
Loved your comment, David. My song was "Blownin' in the Wind" sang once and again by my 8th grade classmate in the early 60s...during class!
This is Album is quickly becoming one of my favourite Dylan albums, Im so blessed to have been introduced to Dylans Music 42 years ago.
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Same here now one of my favorites
Album of the year, king.
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@@bobdylan4442 I wouldn't do that if I were you. Which I am.
@@ferociousgumby if the Real dylan'd write that I'd die
A great Bob Dylan song should make you cry,this one does that and so much more.There's nothing else like Dylan...there wasn't then and there isn't now.The man knows how he feels.....and he sings it out.......
Ditto ditto ditto
Very much so. xxx
"People tell me I ought to try a little tenderness" It's hard, though, but I'll try.
Genius
This is a stunning work of art. No one ever like Dylan
It's an honor to witness one of the greatest musician of all time.
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This is true; one of the gifts given to humanity
And then some ♡
He certainly still has IT. I'm 72 and this challenges "Blood on the Tracks." Amazing stuff.
As much as this album is pure late Dylan gold I think we tend to forget just how brilliant blood on the tracks is maybe we become too familiar with some of his earlier albums surely blood on the tracks is along with his 65-66 trilogy some of the best work by any musician that's not to disregard this album it's fresh and since time out of mind I believe we have all greeted a new dylan album with pure joy and maybe a little over excitement I think history will judge Bob's body of work more objectively but hell it's a damn good album
Blood on the tracks,New York sessions were better,before it got messed with, Still my fav album though. I did like Street Legal,maybe because it was my first.
@@kevanbrown7620 BOTT was always a masterpiece to me. But then when I go back, there were so many under rated albums and songs. My son grew up thinking BOTT was "the Best of Bob Dylan" because it was always in my car, on cassette, and later several CD's that got scratched. But Bob always has something up his sleeve. I wonder if some of these are old, unreleased songs? Along with some new ones? Always a mystery.
Beautiful, contemplative, tender…and a touch of melancholy. A perfect pace, a perfect song
Hello dear, how’re you doing today?
it’s nice meeting you on here.
This got me through the Covid pandemic
Best song on a masterpiece of an album
Joey Smallwood Yes it really is remarkable, isn't it?
Dreamlike, it’s almost Most Of The Time in slo mo, gorgeously unfolding.
agreed. I'm not fan of his bluesy side, slower songs provokes deeper thoughts.
Yes It is.
@@widM_ But much of the album is based on pure blues riffs, c'mon.
If I commented here before now, I've forgotten. I play this album everyday. Over and over. I still can't get my jaw off the floor. I play his other albums too. This is bigger than I can wrap my little head around. It's bigger and beyond. Suffice to say, I'm pretty happy.
Dear sweet man we love you.
There’s Dylan then there’s everyone else
Yup
We sure do.
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He was in Milwaukee last night. It was amazing! He made me cry several times!
mesmerising song I listen to it several times a day... Dylan is not only a prophet and poet but also a great singer...
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I completely agree and I just discovered this song yesterday after finding a cover of the song on youtube. I know this person and its only for pleasure, not to become a star, but I think its a great version. I hope Bob doesnt mind my positing this czcams.com/video/w7IHkjV9Vms/video.html Ive always loved Bob Dylan and have almost every cd. Was mesmorized listening to Murder Most Foul last night as well. Thats a piece of art. Hope Im not in trouble posting that link a couple times.
I lost my best friend this year, and we walked along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico many times. Thanks Bob for this song, everytime I listen to it my how the tears fall. Martin and you Bob are and always will be the best. Thank you.
The most beautiful song for the most beautiful Night. Merry Christmas.
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@@bobdylan4442 Go away phony account. And shame on you.
My husband and I saw Bobby Dylan last year in Rough and Rowdy tour. It was very significantly opportunity for both of us. This year my husband has stage 2 b. of pancreatic cancer it is rough for us. The the previous Chemo almost kill him, but he fights back he always say " I have to make it, because I want to see Bobby Dylan on tour again.
6 stars for the best poet ever. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Happy to be alive for this, thanks Bob!
Lyrics:
McKinley hollered, McKinley squalled
Doctor said, "McKinley, death is on the wall
Say it to me, if you got something to confess"
I heard all about it, he was goin' down slow
I heard it all, the wireless radio
From down in the boondocks, way down in Key West
I'm searching for love, for inspiration
On that pirate radio station
Coming out of Luxembourg and Budapest
Radio signal, clear as can be
I'm so deep in love that I can hardly see
Down on the flatlands, way down in Key West
Key West is the place to be
If you're looking for immortality
Stay on the road, follow the highway sign
Key West is fine and fair
If you lost your mind, you will find it there
Key West is on the horizon line
I was born on the wrong side of the railroad track
Like Ginsberg, Corso and Kerouac
Like Louis and Jimmy and Buddy and all the rest
Well, it might not be the thing to do
But I'm sticking with you, through and through
Down in the flatlands, way down in Key West
I got both my feet planted square on the ground
Got my right hand high with the thumb down
Such is life, such is happiness
Hibiscus flowers, they grow everywhere here
If you wear one, put it behind your ear
Down in the bottom, way down in Key West
Key West is the place to go
Down by the Gulf of Mexico
Beyond the sea, beyond the shifting sand
Key West is the gateway key
To innocence and purity
Key West, Key West is the enchanted land
I've never lived in the land of Oz
Or wasted my time with an unworthy cause
It's hot down here, and you can't be overdressed
China blossoms of a toxic plant
They can make you dizzy, I'd like to help you but I can't
Down in the flatlands, way down in Key West
Well, the fish tail ponds and the orchid trees
They can give you that bleeding heart disease
People tell me I ought to try a little tenderness
On Newton Street, Bayview Park
Walking in the shadows after dark
Down under, way down in Key West
I played Gumbo Limbo spirituals
I know all the Hindu rituals
People tell me that I'm truly blessed
Bougainvillea blooming in the summer, in the spring
Winter here is an unknown thing
Down in the flat lands, way down in Key West
Key West is under the sun, under the radar, under the gun
You stay to the left, and then you lean to the right
Feel the sunlight on your skin, and the healing virtues of the wind
Key West, Key West is the land of light
Wherever I travel, wherever I roam
I'm not that far before I come back home
I do what I think is right, what I think is best
History Street off of Mallory Square
Truman had his White House there
East bound, West bound, way down in Key West
Twelve years old, they put me in a suit
Forced me to marry a prostitute
There were gold fringes on her wedding dress
That's my story, but not where it ends
She's still cute, and we're still friends
Down on the bottom, way down in Key West
I play both sides against the middle
Trying to pick up that pirate radio signal
I heard the news, I heard your last request
Fly around, my pretty little Miss
I don't love nobody, give me a kiss
Down on the bottom, way down in Key West
Key West is the place to be
If you're looking for immortality
Key West is paradise divine
Key West is fine and fair
If you lost your mind, you'll find it there
Key West is on the horizon line
Thanks for the transcription, but it's Fishtail PALMS. Also: ---wherever I roam, I'm not that far from the Convent home.
Thank you so much! (Both of you.)
In my opinion Rishikant, this is top drawer Bob Dylan. Thank you for the lyrics
Always good to find a fellow Indian.
This song alone has convinced me I must buy the album!
The best I’ve heard Bob’s voice since “Most of the Time.” Bravo, Master.
indeed
I've thought at least three times over the years, well, he's lost his voice. Nope. Comes back every time, different but still expressive.
@@rkevinparker well put
I’ve learned more from Bob Dylan than I ever did from a college professor.
Especially human nature. He has lived every emotion
Hey giving the situation. As
Just aresponse
😄.
🙌.
Damn straight! Heck, the hottest girl I ever slept with I got her with a line from a Bob dylan song.
@ArchieJ maybe it was..."what's a sweetheart like you doing in a joint like this?" or maybe it was...
(you fill in the blank).
Dylan writes about truth--and truth can be beautiful even when it's ugly because reality beats fantasy every day.
Hello dear, how’re you doing today?
it’s nice meeting you on here.
Love the atmosphere and the mood, the feeling of weariness, resignation and wonder. Each track on the album is more of an impressionistic reverie than a song, and that's what I love about it. One can get lost in the reverie of Key West. Don't over-think it, just experience it. Beautiful.
Just like the island it’s self what a tribute.
Man...each of these songs just build and build...and Bob seems to be summing things up, intoning names, places, moments in (and out) of time...I know I've missed 95% of it, but the 5% I got has my hands shaking. 60 years of listening to great music and poetry, but this...this is something else.
It’s like Bob is being driven through America in a dream state, seeing the past and present at the same time, knowing the topography of each ripple in time.
Yes he has a true gift from God
Jupiter, you put it so well! 👍
Isn't it amazing? He doesn't have to prove himself or have yet another accomplishment. But he still has thoughts he wants to communicate. And who better to do it? I ordered the album last night!
This has pretty much the same melody as Most Of The Time, another stupendous song! I am watching RTR Bob and I keep coming back to this. We all probably know it by heart by now! Definitely the best part of this terrible year. Things are looking up now! WMB#2 was my favorite of this century, but this might be better. There has never been a musician or songwriter that has achieved what Bob has. He is already immortal. I think he is going to be around for a while and I sure hope so This song seriously takes my breath away.
This song always makes me emotional for some reason...
My favourite from this album
Greetings from Lisbon 🇵🇹
i sat on the beach on the edge of the sea ,wave after wave crashed on the shore . I thought for the last 50 years dylans conciousness has been hitting me without pause. A life source of profound intensity What an incredible achievment The intensity goes on and on
The sound of the hypnotic accordeon and the timbre of Bob` s voice blows us softly from the keys to the horizon line.
His poetic words catch us from behind, from everywhere .What great,great song - there is a lot of spirit on the water...
Yes, that mesmerizing sound. Other worldly...
@@justsomeguy820 true. Bob got the key to open up time limits
This Song is a Masterpiece
dylam lobv e
I just find this song completely overwhelming, the world stops when he sings. It's almost impossible to keep dry eyes. There's Bob, and then there's other music.
True
Men get weepy as they get older because of lowered testosterone. Don’t do it. It’s a bad look.
This is a fantastic song. Resigned and contemplative. But crying when you listen to it? You are not a woke millennial and please don’t bow down to your age.
Most of this album is boring and generic. But this track and Black Rider are original and have a great feel to them.
@@22448824 spot on Jackie -except for your album review
Lol
I agree with your words wholeheartedly
I hope I'm wrong but this could be the last great American record. It's ssssooooo good. No one will be able to replicate what this man has done.
you've lost it on your shoes
Check out Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs
@@ryanfatal Thanks!!! I will!
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WESTERN CONSCIOUSNESS LEAPT FORWARD WHEN DYLAN SHONE HIS LIGHT AND ARTICULATED HIS CONCEPTS OF REALITY WITHIN SOCIETY AND OUTSIDE OF IT SIXTY YEARS AGO .. iN THIS SONG HE IS TOLD TO SHOW A LITTLE TENDERNESS WELL HE SURE DID THAT . HIS SOUL NOW LAID BARE FOR ALL TO SEE, REMARKABLE . THANKS MATE
Bob Dylan is a National Treasure, Global perhaps. Always changing and adapting but staying true and real. His lyrics are poetry and his voice is ideal. Like fine wine, better with age. We will still be listening and absorbing him for the continued future.
Global treasure!
What a gift to my beautiful island Mr. Dylan. Soul stirring, mysterious and seductive. Perfect.
I agree I lived in Key West for about 5 years this is a great tribute.
I've never been to Key West but I'm going. I don't know what I expect to find but when I get there I'll tell them Bob sent me.
You've probably already been there because the chorus is as literal as much as it is a metaphor for heaven on earth.
He moves me. I can't ask for that but he does. Cheers mate. The Song and Dance man. Walking side by side with you all my life but I don't know who you are. You helped me work out who I am.
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Ditto for me - well said
Tom Devlin, that's beautiful.
Kin-oath. No words typed, more true. I feels also.
He just took me to Key West and back in 9 min. 35 sec. Remarkable song. Dylan well deserved that Nobel Prize for Literature.
Not quite my Key West from over 60 years ago, but even in my day Key West was a different place for each different person.
🦯🦯🥃🦯🦯
The lyrics, the tune. This is so otherworldly, I'm crying.
Me too. Tears of joy/liquid prayer
Western consciousness would not be what it is today without Dylan A
life lived with dedication and creative to his core , We owe him so much .!! He never did live in the land of ozz. He was advised to"show a little tenderness" I reckon he just did .
Key West is under the sun, under the radar and under the gun... is the land of light
This is what you call.. eargasm. And you smile, all the way, every glorious second of it.
Cute!
This great bard. I’m listening now because I’m in Key West❤ 🙏🏼
It took a long, long time, but Bob can really sing now, he's not just shouting. Thanks Bob for this late-era absolute masterpiece.
My favorite song of the album. His timing is incredible and, at the beginning, when he says "confess"........so touching and beautiful. He is a Voice so real, so true
I must confess it’s true.
Johnny Depper 😄
Yea totally agree no one's gonna cover this song like dylan. Great phrasing and yes always love the way he phrases confess
How does he do it? Is he really a man like you and I? Whew, I'm breathing heavy!
I'm sure he came from outer space..
Tom Petty might well say, "The Bobness has outdone his self"!! Well done Mr Dylan!!
Not sure why I love this song, but I do.
Dylan, my light in the dark for nearly 40 years has just brought me back to the start, has there ever truly been a climax to his career, or just a series of monumental peaks?
Bob (cat) has lived more lives than a cat, and is into his next cat by now.
You did it again Sir. this song is out of this world. You have probably saved more peoples lives do to your music than most doctors
"Key West is the gateway key to innocence and purity" -- I think we need more of that in today's world.
I've spent some of my best hours in Key West with the love of my life. She's gone (RIP love), but the memories are forever. Dylan has captured the feel of the place..........'again.
Thank you for sharing, friend.
The greatest poet that has ever written music. Perfect album cover that conveys the vibe and sound of this album.
Just like entering a SUPER MASSIVE BLACK HOLE. This stuff is from another time, another universe. Bless you, Master.
I liscened to that song on repeat at my job for 5 days straight. all the strings, notes and sound of that track is permanetly impregnated on my soul
Like a Rolling Stone is a young man's masterpiece. Key West is the masterpiece of an old man. And he has captivated us for all the years in between. I am grateful.
There’s Dylan then there’s everybody else
Agree 100%
Your adjectives describe Dylan as he seems to be in reality. He is a man becoming transcendent in the way he knows best. There is happiness along with his being so cool
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To be one of the first million to hear this is truly an honour...and I can now die a happy man during COVID1984
I cant stop listening to this gorgeous song
THIS SONG MADE ME CRY.
Key West is both a real place and a Shangri-la - the place where we go to escape. The cleverness of this dreamy reflective song is that it works on both levels.
Your assessment is rather reductive; the song works on many different levels and it is more than merely clever. It represents the zenith of his art - a (long) lifetime spent perfecting his craft.
@@keithcrooks7217 lol. Key West is absolutely not the zenith of his art. It's not even the zenith of the album.
@@classiccoke6360 Purely out of curiosity; what is the zenith of his art? And of this album?
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I do think that "Key West" is the best song on the album.
Mark H - I just posted my comment yesterday and now reading through all the comments i think it has similarities to your idea...here is the comment i just posted : I get the feeling that Key West and the people and places mentioned in this song are part of a 'lost era' of America. An America that could have been. An America that was slowly being eroded away from the beginning of the 20th century and was truly lost after the murder of JFK. Key West is the 'land of light', 'innocence and purity' 'the enchanted land'. After JFK's murder (it was 'like a human sacrifice') the 'age of the Antichrist' began. The 'soul of a nation been torn away', going 'into a slow decay' now it's 'thirty-six hours past judgement day'. Key West is at once a real place and a mythical place in the mind of the philosoher pirate, a truth seeker and free thinker from the 'wrong side of the railroad tracks'. A place to seek inspiration and love. A retreat, a hiding place, a refuge from the Land Of Oz, Babylon, the ever encroaching post-modern soulless new world where you will lose your mind. Key West, a place where his heroes, predecessors and now dead contemporaries live on and which he will never abandon even it 'might not be the thing to do' ('i'm sticking with you, through and through') because he has his 'feet planted square on the ground'. Key West is the philosoher pirate's Elysian Fields.
The whole album is wonderful... It is just a simple extra bonus for me to have "Budapest" in a Dylan song :)
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On a long enough timeline, your town will end up in a Dylan song. He got around to mine back in '83.
Well, I'm not from Luxemburg, though very near.
I'm so thankfully for Bob Dylan's music. I have no words.
-"*Clap, clap*"
Hello dear, how’re you doing today?
it’s nice meeting you on here.
After fifty years bob dylan still makes songs more then great
He´s a Master Storyteller - straight in at #1 on the Album charts in Germany
Key West seems to be the southernmost city in the U.s. This singular location should have a special meaning for Dylan! Hemingway and Tennessee Williams lived in Key West.
In the first line it's also indirectly evoked the highest point of the USA, as Mount Denali was previously - until 2015 - entitled to the murdered president.
@@zarihs31 Interesting, the song also references it as the Flatlands. Could this be about the decline of the empire?
Who knows? Maybe. In many Dylan's songs the more you dig the more you find.
Hemingway and all his three-toed cats!
"Trying to pick up that pirate radio signal"- priceless song
“Poetry is news that stays news.”😎
What we need in this dark times
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... the Man did it Again, picked up that Pirate Radio signal, clear as can be ...
Uncle Bob, I love you so much; with these last songs you are putting the dots up on the i and j; you are filling the gaps, you are giving it all; more all than all the other alls that you gave; and you did it so many times; you are such a wonder uncle Bob, where do you come from? Oh but why did them Gods have to break the mould; we love you, poet of poets, don't ever leave us, don't ever go
I'm not sure I've ever heard another song where the lyrics and singing melded so beautifully with the music.
@Joshua Hammond I know. I should refrain from commenting. But I love the song.
Yes well.put. I think your spot on. TREMENDOUS song
Well said! And if you listen to it live in the current Dylan tour (his voice is best ever since the 60s) you would die in front of the stage.
@@GordonLF yes it is incredible how great his voice is and the phrasing is great
I've known for years that the man is a genius and yet this record still staggers me. The sheer depth of the compositions, the musicality. How can this man write so many extraordinary songs? Key West is so moving, so rich with emotion. People one day will be jealous of us for living at the same time as Bob Dylan.
2013. My wife and I honeymooned in Key West as we tried to get pregnant (and did). As I pulled up to our room one night the resort sign said "we welcome our special guest Bob Dylan" I had brought my guitar with so I sat outside all night playing his songs just hoping. Who knows, maybe he was too busy wringing this. Of course we named our daughter Dylan.
@@kyledoxstader2731 Men don't get pregnant, the 'we' is redundant and arrogant. Not to mention stupid. Good luck as a parent, take good care of your womb.
@@slimtimslide Why u have to be so mean to him, doubt he was trying to cause any harm
@@kyledoxstader2731 you're kidding, right? get thee to a nunnery
I couldn't agree with more. I listen to it when it first came out. Thank my daughter who is half my age at ,31 for sharing it with me. I was to see thrilled to hear him play this life at the Pantages with her. She's now has become a huge Dylan fan li
Another incredible masterpiece from this wonderful poet
Dylan i Oslo Spektrum Sunday 25th. of September 2022. He gave us all he could, inclusive a lovely and strong version of this epic song. Forever young.