![]() So many dead ends, I’m at the edge of the lake. Just remember that death is not the end." "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does, "She takes just like a woman, yes, she does, In 1985, Carter's sentence was quashed and he was released, but only after serving 20 years for a crime he didn't commit. This song challenged the imprisonment of the boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, in 1967, on a charge of murder. Though breathlike, get deathlike at times.īut it won’t be over till they clear his name, "You're right from your side, I'm right from mine." "What looks large from a distance, close-up ain't never that big." Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love) "You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way."ģ1. “She knows there’s no success like failure and that failure’s no success at all.”Īlbum: The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 (1991)īut power and greed and corruptible seed, "Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain." If I say I’m not loving you for what you are, When it’s you who must keep it satisfied."Īlbum: Biograph (1985) / Bootleg Series Vol. You cannot depend on it to be your guide, ".every man’s conscience is vile and depraved, "So when you see your neighbour carryin' somethin', The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest She still lives inside of me, we've never been apart."Ģ3. "We had a falling-out, like lovers often will,Īnd to think of how she left that night, it still brings me a chill.Īnd though our separation, it pierced me to the heart, ".to live outside the law you must be honest." Trust yourself to do what’s right and not be second-guessed." Trust yourself to do the things that only you know best. "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose." "The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from bein’ seen,īut that’s just because he doesn’t want to turn into some machine." "Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you." To flesh-coloured Christs that glow in the dark, Make everything from toy guns that spark, "Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content." "Don’t have the inclination to look back on any mistake." Then they’ll stone ya when you’re there all alone, They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin’ to go home, They’ll stone ya just a-like they said they would, "Well, they’ll stone ya when you’re trying to be so good, "It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart." "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind." In celebration of the man, we’ve picked our 50 favourite bits of Dylan's lyrical wisdom.Īlbum: The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964) Put simply: he'll chase any musical whim he fancies (see 1965's Bringing It All Back Home, where he abandoned acoustic instruments in favour of electric ones and Street Rock, his 1986 collaboration with hip-hop pioneer Kurtis Blow). (Don't mean to drag you into this, Ed Sheeran, but you've a way to go yet mate.)ĭylan has done all this while remaining an idiosyncratic - and let's face it, curmudgeonly - character, prone to wild left-turns in style. The artist otherwise known as Bob Dylan - Nobel Prize-winning no less - has been responsible for some of the finest pieces of prose and poetry of the last century, and set them to some of the most culturally important songs that there have ever been. Here we chart 50 great pieces of wisdom from some of the best Bob Dylan albums. He celebrates his birthday on 24 May and there are no signs that he is slowing down. We're gonna say it: Robert Allen Zimmerman is arguably the bard in modern times, you only have to look at the Bob Dylan songs and their lyrics to see this.
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