Ain't that the truth! And all these years later it seems those kinda times, still ain't changin much! Some haven't figured out yet that it's children that pay the price of parents and other adults choices! Ya know what a good many adults are in other words? A- Dolts. Your so very important post reminds us to think from motivation and intent. To Always remember to see through the heart and minds eyes of a child and to be kind. And for that, I Thank- You and of course, Mr.D too!
I loved it when I heard it at 16, not so much now. The ones I like are the last ones. I don't think he just concludes with them, I think they're the conclusions he comes to: "And if my thought-dreams/ Could be seen They'd probably put my head/ In a guillotine. But it's alright ma It's life and life only." It's hard to do better than that.
I listened to this while laying in bed at the peak of an acid trip. While all the other songs happened around me, this one seemed to live directly inside my brain. I looked up at the shadows on the candlelit ceiling and saw Christ on the cross. Very strange.
@@heynow2302 Well, that's not in question. But he still has multiple takes for many of his songs, yet he recorded one take and one take alone of this song and nailed it in one, even after moments earlier saying he really didn't want to do it because it's so long. The fact it's so long and lyrically dense and he still just knocked it out in one is wild to me.
Collin Adams - it’s timeless you would not think it was written 55 years ago probably the most profound song I have listen to I have always wondered how he played this on the guitar tried it myself but can not find a version with the chords or notes he is using whilst he recorded this
That line has two meanings....one, the obvious...we all get closer to death every day, but the second means that you have to be learning and growing in order to avoid spiritually dying.
He admitted there was a magic(devils) that came over him and that he couldn't do it again of he tried. In an interview speaking about his bargain with the devil.
@@roquetinsixtysix And so MANY songs equally as profound, written in the three years before this one.....Mr Tambourine Man, Masters of War, God on their Side, Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, Ballad of Hollis Brown, Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie, The Times They are A Changin', Don't Think Twice, Walls of Red wing, North Country Blues, Lay Down Your Weary Tune, Who Killed Davey Moore?, Only A Pawn in Their Game, Blowin In The Wind., Ballad in Plain D, Chimes of Freedom........etc etc etc...some of them never made it to an album! Too many other good ones blocking their way!
There are probably more quotable Dylan gems in this song than in any of the others. I saw him interviewed years ago by Ed Bradley (60 Minutes, I think) and he said rather wistfully that he can't write like this any more (quoting this song specifically). But here we are in 2024, he's still on tour, NOT doing a Golden Oldies thing, and turned out one of his finest albums in 2020, when he was 79. It came when a lot of us were in despair and wondering when anything good was going to happen again. Right at the darkest point in lockdown, Dylan was back - or, should I say, he was never away. He has been part of my life for nearly 60 years, through everything.
I got the feeling that he was saying he couldn't write some of the songs he wrote when he was younger, because they questioned authority, and he has been told not to do that anymore....or else.
I think people misunderstand that quote of his. Bob was not saying he still couldn't write great songs, he was saying that his early work just poured out of him in a magical way but in old age the lyrics are more of a labor of love based on real life experience in the mold of Leonard Cohen. They are both valid methods of great songwriting
Memorized the lyrics and performed it as a spoken piece for a high school drama final. The room was just silent. I got an A. The song still has that shock value
A flat out masterpiece, among a library of masterpieces. I danced around the room when Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature - as deserving as anyone. How many times have I said "He not busy being born is busy dying." In the history of contemporary music, Dylan stands alone.
I'm a Dylan fan and I didn't dance with the prize. He ignored it for months, he didn't even initially want it. I understand its just a popularity contest, often going to those who are the most politically aligned with the times, proven by the long list of deserved authors who were ignored by it for the contemporary Pied Piper of that moment.... I love Dylan but prizes are nothing, nor are criticisms.
"He not busy being born is busy dying" and "Money doesn't talk, it swears" Two of the greatest lines ever written, and they're both in the same song!! This guy should be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature
I think you might be right with that, nobody ever had as much scope in their songwriting, nobody ever made me think so much about what I was listening to-he has enriched my life no end..
@@Blackbird58 Agreed. When I hear people say that Townes Van zandt, Joni Mitchell, Paul SImon, John Prine, Robert Hunter, or Conor Oberst are Bob's equalls, or even better, I use this same argument. Their best songs are right up there with some of his best......Both Sides Now, Tecumseh Valley, Sounds of Silence, Paradise, etc....but the variety and scope, and depth in Dylan is rivalled by no one. So many different subjects, so much analysis, so many different rhyme schemes, so many styles.....lyrically, he's in a class by himself.
Självklart har du rätt, bob Dylan har alltid varit störst och resten är efteråt och det har pågått sedan 60 talet. Världens största poet levande och hitintills. Tror att det lär förblir så
@@anarchyeddy27 Sad Eyed Lady f the Lowland. With God on Our Side. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, North country Blues. A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall. Subterranean Homesick Blues, Lilly Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. Highway 61. Like A Rolling Stone. Masters of War. Ballad in Plain D. Mr Tambourine Man.Don't Think Twice, It's Alright, Visions of Johanna. Blind Willie McTell, Ramblin, Gamblin Willie, Who Killed Davey Moore. Sign On the Window etc etc etc
[Verse 1] Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon There is no sense in trying [Verse 2] Pointed threats they bluff with scorn Suicide remarks are torn From the fools gold mouthpiece the hollow horn Plays wasted words, proves to warn That he not busy being born Is busy dying [Verse 3] Temptation's page flies out the door You follow, find yourself at war Watch waterfalls of pity roar You feel to moan, but unlike before You discover that you'd just be one more Person crying [Chorus] So don't fear if you hear A foreign sound to your ear It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing [Verse 4] As some warn victory, some downfall Private reasons, great or small Can be seen in the eyes of those that call To make all that should be killed to crawl While others say don't hate nothing at all Except hatred [Verse 5] Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Make everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without lookin' too far That not much is really sacred [Verse 6] While preachers preach of evil fates Teachers teach that knowledge waits Can lead to hundred-dollar plates Goodness hides behind its gates But even the President of the United States Sometimes must have to stand naked [Chorus] And though the rules of the road have been lodged It's only people's games that you got to dodge And it's alright, Ma, I can make it [Verse 7] Advertising signs that con You into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime, life outside goes on All around you [Verse 8] You lose yourself, you reappear You suddenly find you got nothing to fear Alone you stand with nobody near When a trembling distant voice, unclear Startles your sleeping ears to hear That somebody thinks they really found you [Verse 9] A question in your nerves is lit Yet you know there is no answer fit To satisfy, ensure you not to quit To keep it in your mind and not forget That it is not he, or she, or them, or it That you belong to [Chorus] But though the masters make the rules For the wise men and the fools I got nothing, Ma, to live up to [Verse 10] For them that must obey authority That they do not respect in any degree Who despise their jobs, their destiny Speak jealously of them that are free Do what they do just to be Nothing more than something they invest in [Verse 11] While some on principles baptized To strict party platform ties Social clubs in drag disguise Outsiders they can freely criticize Tell nothing except who to idolize And say "God bless him" [Verse 12] While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society's pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he's in [Chorus] But I mean no harm, nor put fault On anyone that lives in a vault But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him [Verse 13] Old lady judges watch people in pairs Limited in sex, they dare To push fake morals, insult and stare While money doesn't talk, it swears Obscenity, who really cares Propaganda, all is phony [Verse 14] While them that defend what they cannot see With a killer's pride, security It blows the minds most bitterly For them that think death's honesty Won't fall upon 'em naturally Life sometimes must get lonely [Verse 15] My eyes collide head-on with stuffed Graveyards, false goals, I scuff At pettiness which plays so rough Walk upside down inside handcuffs Kick my legs to crash it off Say, okay, I've had enough What else can you show me? [Chorus] And if my thought-dreams could be seen They'd probably put my head in a guillotine But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only
Those who wax on about popularity and acceptance don't seem to understand that those issues were not a priority for Bob especially as he matured....he followed his inspiration and let the chips fall where they may
So Bob Dylan was the voice of his generation. Hes won a Nobel Prize...Had over 6000 different singers sing his songs...The best song writer on earth, ever....AND, the cut the first Rap song !!!!!..... The man truly is a genius..
Back then, Bob was more of a poet who could put music to his work. He was the next in line after Paul Simon to make an impact in the 60's with very thoughtful lyrics.
I’m listening to Bob and missing my ma SO MUCH right now! She passed away 6 years ago right before Christmas. She first got me into Bob when I was about 10. The very first song she ever played for me was Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 and she explained to me how it had 2 meanings, but to never ever tell my dad she let he hear it! Lol. God, I MISS HER SO MUCH!!! She was my biggest fan! Always there to tell me how proud she was of me and now I’m just a sobbing 49 year old baby crying my eyes out! I took her to see Bob 8 (EIGHT!) times and Tom Petty twice and Stevie Nicks once and I wouldn’t trade those memories for the world! I miss you, mom!
Yea my mom died too April 31 2021 I miss her very much, the cops took my Mitsubishi lancer left me in the rain walking home .on shut down could not make car payment what a planed attack to break up family! The rules of the road have been logged only peoples gains you have to dodge. (I Have nothing to live up too!)
His birthday is on Monday. Eighty years old. A miracle that him and I are still both alive. And I agree..some of his songs are true poetry set to music. It has been said, poetry is the only magic there is. They can teach you to do just about anything but not how to write a real poem. God bless
If they have their choice, most people will worship the human form, and language. It branches out from there, but those two things seem to be at the core.
It's amazing that he could write something like this and then do an about face and be totally calm and removed from all the bullshit and in a knowing and contemplative spirit write something like Watching The River Flow with Leon Russell. If you've never heard: ua-cam.com/video/_xRlojtDdEs/v-deo.html
One of my biggest regrets during my 4+ decades on this planet is that I've never been able to appreciate Dylan as much as I feel I should.. Dare ı say it, I might finally be starting to see the light.
Once you get it; you get it. There is no turning back or shutting that door. Revelation of epic proportions. Same with an epiphany/ontological confrontation after taking LSD or psilocybin.
@@sethstine4698You've hit the nail on the head there, once you get Dylan, that's it, you become aware, like acid, you see things in a different light, you realise you're here, breathing, being, that's what getting Dylan is like, he's a true legend, he is in the musical company of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, such big influences. Some people never get Dylan, they say "I like that song he wrote that someone else done", aaahh. Anyway I love Dylan, to the extent I have almost all of his releases, apart from his 'Sinatra' trilogy, I have all of his studio releases, all of the bootleg series Vol 1-15, and over half of his live albums, which I will complete soon.
@@tuscanyiscol He accepted it, he wrote a nice note thanking them....he just didn't want to travel all the way to Sweden for it...and who can blame him, especially at that age.....
Guy had a near-death experience as a teenager, then was at a Buddy Holly concert when he was 17, two days before Holly died - probably helps a bit to open a person's eyes
biggest mistake of my life was listening to one (1) of his songs i didnt end up liking and letting that put me off from the rest of his music for months.... bro is a poet fr
If any other artist released 'Bringing it all back home' it would be their magnum opus and they would dine out on it for decades afterwards. For Dylan it was just another album. Amongst his back catalogue it doesn't even really stand out. A freakish talent
It does come on it’s an amazing album it is definitely one of his best definitely top 5 anyway, it stands out massively w sum of his best songs like it’s all over now baby blue mr tambourine man subterranean homesick blues and gates of Eden and love minus zeros
And to think rolling stone put Kanye west on their list off albums ahead of this masterpiece of an album what drugs are they smoking this song alone is better anything Kanye west done and will ever do
@@elstonngunn4193 Oh I'm right there with ya it's a stunning album. I just think in an amongst Freewheelin, BOTT, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Desire, Oh Mercy etc etc it really is just another album
Best lyrics he ever wrote. I was a teenager when I first heard this, and it gave me chills....Still does...To say the least, he speaks the truth, the raw truth....
@@meyou-dv8ns Some lyrics are somewhat up to interpretation but some have solid meanings that really put things into perspective, I encourage you to find and read the lyrics instead of looking for other people's explanations online, as some of those explanations are plagued by the same things the lyrics try to warn you about, really does say a lot. If you're into Frank Zappa then you probably shouldn't have to go far to find the meaning. Zappa shared a large part of his ideology with Dylan, but unfortunately, unlike Dylan, his lyrics mostly fell on deaf ears.
Lirically? Yeah maybe… perhaps the most complicated rhyme scheme he created. But some other works like Desolation Row are equally creative in the imagery they paint…
@@LosHuxleys Good choice. Yet so much to choose from ... Jokerman. Or the obvious Like A Rolling Stone. Personally, I think Changing of the Guard is brilliant.
Damn it! He is our modern Shakespeare. This puts current music to embarrassment and shame. Current songwriters hide under their beds counting money while the things that need to be sung about stay unsung as Rome falls
This is the song I carried around verbatim in my head since I was a young girl. I’ve not heard it sung in years, and came back to it today, to check on it to see how much I've changed. I found not much at all, except for a certain knowledge that I’m witless and that we are all in this together. God bless the man whose soul found these words and shared them with this tired, desperate world. In their phrasing, they’re damning, and in their entirety, they are uplifting, in a sincerity of truths that stagger us individually, yet can be absorbed as one. May he live longer than I do.
It doesn't get any better than this. Hands down my favorite song ever by anybody. Never has so much truth been spoken in one song. Cuts right through the bullshit we are fed on a daily basis. Sobering
With you totally on that. I personally cannot listen to this song without following it with Mr Tambourine Man, which somehow to me is like the next place to go after all the bullshit Dylan describes has been torn down, or at least neutralised in our own minds.. For me, Tambourine Man is the resolution of Its Alright Ma.
This is the most perfect song ever. The lyrics cover literally every theme imaginable and you can always find new meaning in this after hearing it more than 1,000 times. I would know.
Of course david bowie is in the running. I'd put cake on the list, too. I kinda want to say cab calloway and harry nilsson, but that's my own personal taste. I'm going to fall asleep listing bands for sure, haha
Don't forget nirvana has this issue like most seem too in pop music. What's up with Danny's Song, that fraternity mentioned in the lyrics didn't exist I don't think until like 15 years later
Dylan literally saved my wretched life (at the time). He introduced me to a world i innately knew but never knew in reality. All around was grey and meaningless. Drifting half asleep, going through the motions. "Blood on the tracks" shook me out of this coma...initially "Tangled up in blue". It was instant recognition!!! "Its alright Ma" followed then "Hard Rain", Blowing in the wind, the times they are a changing etc. I was mesmerized, hooked and awakened to the mood of the times. Dylan was the man! Years later i had to good fortune to meet him in person. And the amazing thing was that he came up and spoke to me, in of all places Shakespeares birthplace, Stratford upon Avon. A circle was completed. This song is a colossus, an enduring anthem for us to return to time and again. He is beyond words. In deep and eternal gratitude 🙏
Beautiful words, yours and his. He's inspiring indeed-- it was floating around in the comments that he was 23 when he wrote this. I'm pretty sure I was nowhere near this aware of the world around me when I was 23. I'd love to know how he did it, what were those chance meetings he had and with who that set him on this iconoclastic path. One that really surprises me is how little he talks about his family and home life. I suspect he was brought up in a home that would have fostered his talent, but he's so private about it that you'd never know. I haven't heard him say a single positive thing about his mother or father in any interview. The main thing I've heard him say is that he was born into the wrong family and basically had to reject everything.
Wow. And yes! To me Dylan is like Buddha. As Buddha, the insulated transcendental child who sees the world eventually, Dylan ventures out in his innocence of simple spiritual journalism, on God's crucial assignment. The assignment to make sure we who are drowning will awaken to grab that life buoy of absolute truth. Bob Dylan is not of this world -he + his poetry legacy are life saving, so let's grab on. Thank you for telling your story friend
Every time I hear this song, and a litany of other Dylan songs, old and new, it blows my mind. Without blinking, Dylan explores the dystopic side of America, the side the masses lack the courage to face. A masterpiece in every way.
Let's make a list...say a list of Dylan songs that are so profound, and so full of lyrical intensity, that no one else has ever written a song like that...This song is one, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Lilly Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, The Times They Are A-Changin', The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, North Country Blues, Masters of War, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, When The Ship Comes In, Ballad in Plain D, The Ballad of Hollis Brown, Mr Tambourine Man, Who Killed Davey Moore, Hurricane, Love Minus Zero, Maggie's Farm, My Back Pages, BD's 115th Dream, Like A Rolling Stone, Ballad of A Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, Desolation Row, Tombstone Blues, Visions of Johanna, My Heart is In The Highlands, All Along the Watchtower, If Dogs Run Free, Chimes of Freedom, To Ramona, It ain't Me Babe, You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You go, Simple Twist of Fate, When You Gonna Wake Up, Blind Willie McTell...That's 34 songs. There are a lot of other great songs, but most of these are up in that hypnotizing stratosphere where no one else can go.....which ones did I miss? Which ones should be left off?
Joe Marshall .......to add to your impressive list, I can only think of “Tangled Up In Blue” off the top of my head, you’ve already listed all my favourites. “Only a Pawn In Their Game” is another one I always liked. Dylan has written so many amazing pieces, I’ll never understand folks who dismiss Bob because they don’t like his voice. I love the guy and his compositions speak for themselves. I guess not everyone digs lyrics?
Bob opened up the magic of words and poetry when I was 15. I closed my eyes and was transported with visions. Like Rimbaud, Bob set the high water mark adding musical tones to the canvas. He also exemplified being cool in the groove and took the bull by the horns.
I can't believe that he is so gifted to remember every and I mean every word every time he performs this song, this man is very prophetic. Never will there another Bob Dylan, seems to me that God is rather fond of him, I know I am!!!!
God is fond of every human because He created every one of us. But unless we accept the Father and the Son then we're denying the creator and He will not force His will onto us. It wouldn't surprise me if Dylan has ditched the gospel. But it also wouldn't surprise me if he's accepted Christ.
It would take me a hundred years to write something as good as that first verse, and this guy probably wrote it in ten minutes. Dylan is the greatest songwriter who ever lived
1965. Crazy to think this song is 58 years old as the lyrics are still as fresh as the day they were written. Dylan's greatest lyric, without question. IMO.
I heard Dylan in an interview answering the question "how did you write all those iconic songs" and his response (to paraphrase) "I can't do it anymore, there was a time when I wrote those early songs and it was like a kind of magic deep penetrating magic was happening....." was so bittersweet. Like he knows now as an old man that he was channeling something so profound it can't be duplicated.
can you imagine, 21 yo from Hibbings MN, in NYC for what 2 years, walk up to a couple of mics, one for his voice and one for the guitar, and rip out this flawless performance of a song that is unprecedented in American music. Man, the courage, the insane mastery of what he was trying to do, its supernatural. The little harp flourishes. He looks human, but...
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"Money doesn't talk, it swears." What a fucking line.
Ain't that the truth!
And all these years later it seems those kinda times, still ain't changin much! Some haven't figured out yet that it's children that pay the price of parents and other adults choices!
Ya know what a good many adults are in other words? A- Dolts.
Your so very important post reminds us to think from motivation and intent. To Always remember to see through the heart and minds eyes of a child and to be kind. And for that, I Thank- You and of course, Mr.D too!
Ask a man who is dying he just want a day more to live not money or women.
I loved it when I heard it at 16, not so much now. The ones I like are the last ones. I don't think he just concludes with them, I think they're the conclusions he comes to:
"And if my thought-dreams/ Could be seen
They'd probably put my head/ In a guillotine.
But it's alright ma
It's life and life only."
It's hard to do better than that.
100
fucking a!
One of the best songs ever written in the history of mankind.
That's a big like from me
And me..
It’s life and life only
you took the comment right out of my brain
Second that
I listened to this while laying in bed at the peak of an acid trip. While all the other songs happened around me, this one seemed to live directly inside my brain. I looked up at the shadows on the candlelit ceiling and saw Christ on the cross. Very strange.
I believe u
WOW!!!
Its on my shroom play list
I SEE HIM THERE EVERY NIGHT, COOL SHIT YEAH. PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL MY FRIEND'S. 🙏✌️😎🏴
Good choice sir
This song opens all the windows: pure genius, it is as relevant now as it was in 1965.
DUde grow up.
Vicky You are Correct my dear 😊
It is relevant as it's not ever goin to change with the Master of War 😅
Yep… the dogs of war. Pink Floyd
You grow up!@@catbreath8361
It always blows my mind that this was recorded in one take.
Dylan is a true Music Artist that's my thoughts on it.🙂
@@heynow2302 Well, that's not in question. But he still has multiple takes for many of his songs, yet he recorded one take and one take alone of this song and nailed it in one, even after moments earlier saying he really didn't want to do it because it's so long. The fact it's so long and lyrically dense and he still just knocked it out in one is wild to me.
Because it had to be said and he knew he was the one who had to say it
I think everything was those days
@@Blandy0487 It wasn't.
Only Dylan could have released such a sharp, biting song that is still relevant to this day.
Try Steppenwolf,s Monster.
Something about the song it’s deep you get dragged in by the lyrics and the guitar at the same time - it’s kind of hypnotic beyond its time
And I think it shall always be relevant.
Collin Adams - it’s timeless you would not think it was written 55 years ago probably the most profound song I have listen to I have always wondered how he played this on the guitar tried it myself but can not find a version with the chords or notes he is using whilst he recorded this
@@paulhynes170 try the version on dylanchords.info
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan! 80 years old today. :)
And STILL doing his NET Never Ending Tour.
That line has two meanings....one, the obvious...we all get closer to death every day, but the second means that you have to be learning and growing in order to avoid spiritually dying.
Blows my mind every time that a person actually wrote those lyrics
I thought this was a pretty good track all in all
The rhyme scheme is so complex it is almost ridiculous
More like the devil..
He admitted there was a magic(devils) that came over him and that he couldn't do it again of he tried. In an interview speaking about his bargain with the devil.
@@chrismendoza4355 lol
With a song like this one could argue that Bob was the godfather of rap
I totally agree🎉🎉🎉My sons a rapper and he totally agrees too!
You might actually be surprised to know that a lot of lyrically inclined gen x rappers count Dylan as an inspiration.
Rappers still drop references to Bob Dylan quite often.
No because this song is intelligently written
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“The masters make the rules, for the wise men and the fools” is a line that reoriented my thinking for the rest of my life
The old Republic will rise in the ashes of this new world like a phoenix.
No kidding
The Song goes deep
MASONS
@@jm-tl6od The globe-Earth is a Masonic lie.
He was 23 yrs old when he wrote this. 🤯
Effing amazing, isn't it? It's like there had to be an older soul residing in that body for such a young person to create something like this!
I was thinking that very same thing!
@@roquetinsixtysixI was thinking something more spiritual. 🤔
@@roquetinsixtysix The Jewish Tavistock Institute made him do it, devil in disguise and all that.
@@roquetinsixtysix And so MANY songs equally as profound, written in the three years before this one.....Mr Tambourine Man, Masters of War, God on their Side, Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, Ballad of Hollis Brown, Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie, The Times They are A Changin', Don't Think Twice, Walls of Red wing, North Country Blues, Lay Down Your Weary Tune, Who Killed Davey Moore?, Only A Pawn in Their Game, Blowin In The Wind., Ballad in Plain D, Chimes of Freedom........etc etc etc...some of them never made it to an album! Too many other good ones blocking their way!
One of the most accurate and scathing attacks on the sacred cow of American values ever written. The man is a prophet.
Brilliant song and songwriter. Not a prophet
I think it's deeper then America. I always looked at as a comment on The Human Condition
Every line in this song would be a career defining for almost everybody else.
More meaning in one song than many artists can achieve in an entire career
Than any artist...
Maybe the Smiths
or takes a lifetime to get nuance after nuance & still not uncover them all like doin a jigsaw puzzle without the picture on the box
Written by the best song writer ever
@@denniscannon7834 Got that right!
@@denniscannon7834nope. The best song writer ever was Leonard Cohen.
Even Bob himself says he's in awe of this song. And to think he wrote it when he was just 23. I love Bob Dylan so much and I totally love this song.
Easy to see why Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize, his verses are so meaningful and enduring.
His Words are so deep indeed so many depths
True
Nobel equals shit now that the mindboggling Bob Dylan has departed the deep state
The Holy Earth God - when then enjoy your prize..
Brian Ripley - jeez , took long enough ..
There are probably more quotable Dylan gems in this song than in any of the others. I saw him interviewed years ago by Ed Bradley (60 Minutes, I think) and he said rather wistfully that he can't write like this any more (quoting this song specifically). But here we are in 2024, he's still on tour, NOT doing a Golden Oldies thing, and turned out one of his finest albums in 2020, when he was 79. It came when a lot of us were in despair and wondering when anything good was going to happen again. Right at the darkest point in lockdown, Dylan was back - or, should I say, he was never away. He has been part of my life for nearly 60 years, through everything.
I got the feeling that he was saying he couldn't write some of the songs he wrote when he was younger, because they questioned authority, and he has been told not to do that anymore....or else.
I think people misunderstand that quote of his. Bob was not saying he still couldn't write great songs, he was saying that his early work just poured out of him in a magical way but in old age the lyrics are more of a labor of love based on real life experience in the mold of Leonard Cohen. They are both valid methods of great songwriting
"Bent out of shape from society's pliers". Ok, the Nobel prize is deserved for that line just by itself.
Walk Upside Down Inside Handcuffs......that's a painting, right there....
I now think of the ‘Joker’ when I hear that line.
Bob was led the the Almighty Spirit here for sure.
Memorized the lyrics and performed it as a spoken piece for a high school drama final. The room was just silent. I got an A. The song still has that shock value
Horse balls.
Wow!!!
And some of your school mates stil remember l bet .👍
Yes, the devil is said to have written it
Excellent feat dude
A flat out masterpiece, among a library of masterpieces. I danced around the room when Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature - as deserving as anyone. How many times have I said "He not busy being born is busy dying." In the history of contemporary music, Dylan stands alone.
Also give kendrick Lamar credit. It was an unconventional but well deserved tip of the cap.
Kendrick Lamar is the Bob Dylan of modern music
Master of words. A magician of words. Cheers mr. Bob Zimmerman Dylan. Live long.
I'm a Dylan fan and I didn't dance with the prize. He ignored it for months, he didn't even initially want it. I understand its just a popularity contest, often going to those who are the most politically aligned with the times, proven by the long list of deserved authors who were ignored by it for the contemporary Pied Piper of that moment.... I love Dylan but prizes are nothing, nor are criticisms.
Artistically,culturally,to me,the 20th century is Dylan,The Beatles and Picasso. Iconic,gigantic forces of art,creativity
"He not busy being born is busy dying" and "Money doesn't talk, it swears" Two of the greatest lines ever written, and they're both in the same song!! This guy should be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature
Shakespearian words, he's a Bard.
That's very good ..
I agree! Always did! But he actually won it in 2016...
Absolutely!!
Yeah, seems he sold his soul to the devil... that's who would get the Nobel Prize.
This might be the most amazing song Dylan ever wrote!
Sounds like folk rap 😁
I think you might be right with that, nobody ever had as much scope in their songwriting, nobody ever made me think so much about what I was listening to-he has enriched my life no end..
@@Blackbird58 Agreed. When I hear people say that Townes Van zandt, Joni Mitchell, Paul SImon, John Prine, Robert Hunter, or Conor Oberst are Bob's equalls, or even better, I use this same argument. Their best songs are right up there with some of his best......Both Sides Now, Tecumseh Valley, Sounds of Silence, Paradise, etc....but the variety and scope, and depth in Dylan is rivalled by no one. So many different subjects, so much analysis, so many different rhyme schemes, so many styles.....lyrically, he's in a class by himself.
Agreed.
As far as song writers Bob Dylan is on top by himself and it’s not even close!!!!!
Nobody even in the neighborhood, let alone the ballpark.
2023 - great lyrist in the 60's, better than Beatles, Stones
Självklart har du rätt, bob Dylan har alltid varit störst och resten är efteråt och det har pågått sedan 60 talet. Världens största poet levande och hitintills. Tror att det lär förblir så
@@BjarnePetersson Bob did not write most of his songs, as beetles etc CIA did
Maybe you should get the CIA to write your comments for you. Sad.@@JacksonJones-je9uk
Imagine being able to write this song. Bob's a fucking master, there's no other song like this one, fucking great.
There are other songs, they're also Bob Dylan songs.
You know Kidda😉
Hey man, don't sit on the fence - say what you really think! 😉
He is the best boss in the poetry. Pure bliss like gold.
Like, what was going on in his head? This is theology via guitar n song.
There’s something darkly magical about Bob Dylan idk how to explain it. It’s like someone seeing through a veil
I don't say this lightly - This IS lyrically the BEST song EVER written and recorded.
I agree, but I think that about a lot of his songs.
Joel Coote oh yes. He shares his heart and story✝️🕊🎶👍
He was a master of 1 liners. "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"
@@anarchyeddy27 Sad Eyed Lady f the Lowland. With God on Our Side. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, North country Blues. A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall. Subterranean Homesick Blues, Lilly Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. Highway 61. Like A Rolling Stone. Masters of War. Ballad in Plain D. Mr Tambourine Man.Don't Think Twice, It's Alright, Visions of Johanna. Blind Willie McTell, Ramblin, Gamblin Willie, Who Killed Davey Moore. Sign On the Window etc etc etc
The lyrics.... one or maybe the most profound and perhaps the deepest ever written.
So I turn 60 next year I've heard this song my whole life and it's desperation is timeless and still makes me cry
[Verse 1]
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying
[Verse 2]
Pointed threats they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fools gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying
[Verse 3]
Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan, but unlike before
You discover that you'd just be one more
Person crying
[Chorus]
So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing
[Verse 4]
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons, great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred
[Verse 5]
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without lookin' too far
That not much is really sacred
[Verse 6]
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked
[Chorus]
And though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it
[Verse 7]
Advertising signs that con
You into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime, life outside goes on
All around you
[Verse 8]
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you
[Verse 9]
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, ensure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he, or she, or them, or it
That you belong to
[Chorus]
But though the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
[Verse 10]
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destiny
Speak jealously of them that are free
Do what they do just to be
Nothing more than something they invest in
[Verse 11]
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And say "God bless him"
[Verse 12]
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in
[Chorus]
But I mean no harm, nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him
[Verse 13]
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony
[Verse 14]
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon 'em naturally
Life sometimes must get lonely
[Verse 15]
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed
Graveyards, false goals, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say, okay, I've had enough
What else can you show me?
[Chorus]
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only
Thank you for posting the lyrics
@@walkingmanhisdogtakingvide3901 You are welcome.
That was helpful, obviously a die hard fan. :)
@@coffeehugger there are many here among us who think that life is but a joke
Verset 6 mauvaise traduction... C'est plutôt.. Même le président des États-Unis doit un moment se tenir nu !
A masterpiece of poetry.
Simply genius at some point in every human beings life they should hear this
Today, Bob has no idea how he wrote songs like this. That magic is long gone. This from an interview he did on 60 minutes.
The clip of him saying that brought me here. 😆 He iight'
he stopped taking speed
Have you listened to 2020's Rough and Rowdy Ways? They are among the finest songs he has ever written.
Has there ever been a greater, more prolific poet? I think not.
Yes,it is.
@@ideaswithinart.it’s only people’s games you got to dodge!
Try Paul Simon
@@ideaswithinart Wash your mouth out boy, Kayne West and go West and stay. Hogwash
@@andygrant9733 Simon? lolololololololololololol stop
Those who wax on about popularity and acceptance don't seem to understand that those issues were not a priority for Bob especially as he matured....he followed his inspiration and let the chips fall where they may
Hello dear, how’re you doing today?
It’s nice meeting you on here.
So Bob Dylan was the voice of his generation. Hes won a Nobel Prize...Had over 6000 different singers sing his songs...The best song writer on earth, ever....AND, the cut the first Rap song !!!!!..... The man truly is a genius..
This is probably the best song I've ever heard. Brilliant songwriting. So glad I found Bob Dylan.
If you like Dylan you should check out John Prine. One of my favorite folk singers and lyricists. And he’s funny as shit to boot.
Did not know that you lost him
Ameen/Amen to that
@@CivilizedWarrior... and wasn't rapped up in himself
Back then, Bob was more of a poet who could put music to his work. He was the next in line after Paul Simon to make an impact in the 60's with very thoughtful lyrics.
Wow. Just wow. Its like someone distilled all of the thoughts of millions of people about the problems of life into a seven minute song. Incredible
This gem is just as relevant today as it ever was.
I can't believe I've listened to this song almost 700,000 times.
I also can't believe that.
4.38(the length of the song in minutes)x700 000=3066000 seconds
3066000=851.6666667 hours.
@@whatisup4811 I actually clicked on the song 7000 times at once, and did it once every day for the next ten days.
@@Max_j9578 Why? I get it, I like the song but that seems excessive
This is the fabric of life in a song. No judgement no expectations...and most importantly no explanation. Thank you mrD. For all of it.
There's plenty of judgement, in that his perspective attributes damning, unscrupulous motives for humanity's leaders who lack moral compass
I’m listening to Bob and missing my ma SO MUCH right now! She passed away 6 years ago right before Christmas. She first got me into Bob when I was about 10. The very first song she ever played for me was Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 and she explained to me how it had 2 meanings, but to never ever tell my dad she let he hear it! Lol. God, I MISS HER SO MUCH!!! She was my biggest fan! Always there to tell me how proud she was of me and now I’m just a sobbing 49 year old baby crying my eyes out! I took her to see Bob 8 (EIGHT!) times and Tom Petty twice and Stevie Nicks once and I wouldn’t trade those memories for the world! I miss you, mom!
Great way to connect. I'm sorry for your loss.
I totally fell your heartfelt words. Not many parents heard this poets words with so much passion. Your Mom a treasure.
Yea my mom died too
April 31 2021 I miss her very much, the cops took my Mitsubishi lancer left me in the rain walking home .on shut down could not make car payment what a planed attack to break up family!
The rules of the road have been logged only peoples gains you have to dodge.
(I Have nothing to live up too!)
Oh she must be a very proud and lucky mother!!
may peace wash all over your beutiful self
His birthday is on Monday. Eighty years old. A miracle that him and I are still both alive. And I agree..some of his songs are true poetry set to music. It has been said, poetry is the only magic there is. They can teach you to do just about anything but not how to write a real poem. God bless
Bob is bob only one in millions. Live long bob Zimmerman. Pure poetry pure truth.truth hurts but truth is like the sun. Shining always.
If they have their choice, most people will worship the human form, and language. It branches out from there, but those two things seem to be at the core.
It's amazing that he could write something like this and then do an about face and be totally calm and removed from all the bullshit and in a knowing and contemplative spirit write something like Watching The River Flow with Leon Russell. If you've never heard:
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Written over 60 yrs ago, the relevance of this song with the state of our society as it is today is mind blowing. Dylan nails it again.
Bob Dylan, he's more creative than Spielberg and predicts thing just like Quasimodo.
I think it just kind of goes to show that while many things have appeared to change since then, nothing really has
Amen to that
Did he see or cause the future
it's ambiguous so can be applied to anything from any time period...
Easily some of the most haunting lyrics ever and presented in a haunting way
True - not only the words but the voice are full of the shock of the whatever it is that makes things true.
he was... connected!
One of my biggest regrets during my 4+ decades on this planet is that I've never been able to appreciate Dylan as much as I feel I should.. Dare ı say it, I might finally be starting to see the light.
His concerts in the 70's & 80's were killers. Unfortunately his voice as of late is getting too rough. But I'd take a Dylan song anyday!
Once you get it; you get it. There is no turning back or shutting that door. Revelation of epic proportions. Same with an epiphany/ontological confrontation after taking LSD or psilocybin.
better late than never
Wow really spoke to me in my teens
@@sethstine4698You've hit the nail on the head there, once you get Dylan, that's it, you become aware, like acid, you see things in a different light, you realise you're here, breathing, being, that's what getting Dylan is like, he's a true legend, he is in the musical company of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, such big influences. Some people never get Dylan, they say "I like that song he wrote that someone else done", aaahh. Anyway I love Dylan, to the extent I have almost all of his releases, apart from his 'Sinatra' trilogy, I have all of his studio releases, all of the bootleg series Vol 1-15, and over half of his live albums, which I will complete soon.
Imagine hearing this on the radio today...
no chance. there would be uproar from the powers that be.
@@MrPiccolop it would be nipped in the bud by the censors that be, im so glad to hear it live.
The public today are so impressed by image,fireworks and totally meaningless lyrics😢
The vocal print in this song is like no other. The cadence and interaction with the guitar is hypnotic.
The man pushed lyrical structure to it's breaking point!
So true .... the structure, or architecture, in Dylan's songs were amazing.
I’m here in 2024 to say…. Man, Bob Dylan was SPITTIN’!!! 🔥💨
One of those songs you can return to at any time and still appreciate.
Nobody can top this one. Greatest ever written.
Bob Dylan paints a picture in his songs because he is such a good story teller. This song is life squeezed into a seven minute song.
Going through a tough time right now and I don't know how much worse it would be without Dylan's music
I hope you get through whatever is happening
You can get through it, don’t be afraid to ask for help.
Amen to that brother
@@bendrescher7185
Its just the Demokratie allover is running out.... "corona helps"
👍👍👍
I am blown away every time I listen to this masterpiece. A cutting edge look at how really fucked up humanity is. The man transcends the word iconic.
How someone can be upset Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize for Literature I will never understand.
I think Bob was upset by it - he didn’t accept it. he doesn’t like awards
@@tuscanyiscol He accepted it, he wrote a nice note thanking them....he just didn't want to travel all the way to Sweden for it...and who can blame him, especially at that age.....
@@tuscanyiscolhe made them wait until the very last minute, virtually, with regards to the one year deadline to accept.
@@joemarshall4226 He had a gig that night! But that's exactly why he won - his one-thousand-per-cent, lifelong devotion to his art.
Dylan himself says he doesn’t know where this and other songs of this era came from. Touched by The Divine Hand.
I wrote all of dylans songs ha ha ha
@Dangerz Own Psychedelics do NOT give one such depth of vocabulary and skill of language as is necessary to write songs like Dylan´s.
not touched by the Divine Hand ,
more like kicked in the ass by the Divine Foot !
Guy had a near-death experience as a teenager, then was at a Buddy Holly concert when he was 17, two days before Holly died - probably helps a bit to open a person's eyes
All poets bring the essence of history of others coming into their realm like ghosts wishing to speak.
Greatest lyricist of the 60's , even the Beatles.
biggest mistake of my life was listening to one (1) of his songs i didnt end up liking and letting that put me off from the rest of his music for months.... bro is a poet fr
Nobody writes for bob dylan!!!
There aren't words sufficient enough to describe this song's greatness
If any other artist released 'Bringing it all back home' it would be their magnum opus and they would dine out on it for decades afterwards. For Dylan it was just another album. Amongst his back catalogue it doesn't even really stand out. A freakish talent
It does come on it’s an amazing album it is definitely one of his best definitely top 5 anyway, it stands out massively w sum of his best songs like it’s all over now baby blue mr tambourine man subterranean homesick blues and gates of Eden and love minus zeros
Truth
'freakish talent', well put
And to think rolling stone put Kanye west on their list off albums ahead of this masterpiece of an album what drugs are they smoking this song alone is better anything Kanye west done and will ever do
@@elstonngunn4193 Oh I'm right there with ya it's a stunning album. I just think in an amongst Freewheelin, BOTT, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Desire, Oh Mercy etc etc it really is just another album
'Bent out of shape by society's pliers'. So much truth here if almost scary.
Cares not to come up any higher,but rather drag u down in the hole that hes in.😊
I would like to thank Bob Dylan for enriching my life. He is the caffeine in my coffee, and a whole lot more.
Masterclass.
What must it have been like, being Bob Dylan and having these songs surging out of you?
One of the best songs ever written
Best lyrics he ever wrote. I was a teenager when I first heard this, and it gave me chills....Still does...To say the least, he speaks the truth, the raw truth....
What does it mean? At least Frank Zappa got to the point when he wrote Trouble coming every day on his 1966 freak out album
@@meyou-dv8ns If you really don't understand these lyrics, then you must live in a fairy land bubble....
@@meyou-dv8ns Some lyrics are somewhat up to interpretation but some have solid meanings that really put things into perspective, I encourage you to find and read the lyrics instead of looking for other people's explanations online, as some of those explanations are plagued by the same things the lyrics try to warn you about, really does say a lot.
If you're into Frank Zappa then you probably shouldn't have to go far to find the meaning. Zappa shared a large part of his ideology with Dylan, but unfortunately, unlike Dylan, his lyrics mostly fell on deaf ears.
I was a teenager as well when I first heard this. I got the chills then and now at 73!
@@jackzaffos9347 Agreed...
I'm still Spellbound after all of these years I can't get enough of this guy he's infectious
Hello dear, how’re you doing today?
It’s nice meeting you on here.
In 500 years time only one artist from our time will be celebrated still... Bob Dylan.
Bro you need to experience more music
@@benjaminorinconcito5154 check back with me in 500 years. Who do you think will still be playing 500 years from now?
Lennon too, with and without McCartney.
@@balaw1980The period from the 60’ and 70’s will literally last forever. This exact UA-cam video might be watched exactly 500 years from this moment.
I know it’s a difficult choice, but his greatest? He was on fire writing this masterpiece.
I'm thinking, maybe his greatest.
Lirically? Yeah maybe… perhaps the most complicated rhyme scheme he created. But some other works like Desolation Row are equally creative in the imagery they paint…
@@LosHuxleys Good choice. Yet so much to choose from ... Jokerman. Or the obvious Like A Rolling Stone. Personally, I think Changing of the Guard is brilliant.
@@nonamo His 'best' is subjective, but this is certainly my favorite Dylan song.
One of the greatest song ever written. Bob is the greatest artist of our times.
Yes I agree--the greatest artist of our time!
Damn it! He is our modern Shakespeare. This puts current music to embarrassment and shame. Current songwriters hide under their beds counting money while the things that need to be sung about stay unsung as Rome falls
This is the song I carried around verbatim in my head since I was a young girl. I’ve not heard it sung in years, and came back to it today, to check on it to see how much I've changed. I found not much at all, except for a certain knowledge that I’m witless and that we are all in this together. God bless the man whose soul found these words and shared them with this tired, desperate world. In their phrasing, they’re damning, and in their entirety, they are uplifting, in a sincerity of truths that stagger us individually, yet can be absorbed as one. May he live longer than I do.
Truth
Well said.
Amazing articulation of the beauty of this masterpiece .
Right On !!!
Check out last thoughts on Woodie Guthrie one of the greatest poems ever written by Bob Dylan.
Only after about 27 years of Dylan fandom, i realize this is a top contender for the best Dylan song.
Dylan was one of the best if not the best lyricist of all time!
It doesn't get any better than this. Hands down my favorite song ever by anybody. Never has so much truth been spoken in one song. Cuts right through the bullshit we are fed on a daily basis. Sobering
With you totally on that.
I personally cannot listen to this song without following it with Mr Tambourine Man, which somehow to me is like the next place to go after all the bullshit Dylan describes has been torn down, or at least neutralised in our own minds..
For me, Tambourine Man is the resolution of Its Alright Ma.
Unutterably brilliant. Pins down the crazed world we struggle in today
There's more quality in that one song than most writers could come up with in a whole career.
This is the most perfect song ever. The lyrics cover literally every theme imaginable and you can always find new meaning in this after hearing it more than 1,000 times. I would know.
I know huh, lol
That's why he is called the poet!
totally agree.
Allways fresh, even after a 1000 times
I agree. Can't wait to see your movie
The songwriting is amazing. It means everything and means nothing at the same time
Nothing new under the sun.as oh so wise Mr Zimmerman knew..I truly believe Bob is a gift to us ..will we listen
The greatest lyrics of ALL TIME. Sorry folks, the game is over.
Oh, man. That's a tall order.
Of course david bowie is in the running. I'd put cake on the list, too. I kinda want to say cab calloway and harry nilsson, but that's my own personal taste.
I'm going to fall asleep listing bands for sure, haha
Don't forget nirvana has this issue like most seem too in pop music. What's up with Danny's Song, that fraternity mentioned in the lyrics didn't exist I don't think until like 15 years later
@@bluegenes2273 Cake?! Is that some joke?
@@tyrekecantrell5941 cake. not cakez.
lol I had a lit teacher who got really mad when Dylan won the Nobel Prize and said he was a "pop singer"... Some people's arrogance really blinds them
I cannot begin to explain how much this song has done for me. Thank you for being there always, Bob Dylan.
Hello dear, how’re you doing today?
It’s nice meeting you on here.
Has friend. In busnessof fish
Is it?
Thank you Patti Smith for being a true Dylan fan your purrformance purfect tell em z
Dylan literally saved my wretched life (at the time). He introduced me to a world i innately knew but never knew in reality. All around was grey and meaningless. Drifting half asleep, going through the motions.
"Blood on the tracks" shook me out of this coma...initially "Tangled up in blue". It was instant recognition!!! "Its alright Ma" followed then "Hard Rain", Blowing in the wind, the times they are a changing etc.
I was mesmerized, hooked and awakened to the mood of the times. Dylan was the man!
Years later i had to good fortune to meet him in person. And the amazing thing was that he came up and spoke to me, in of all places Shakespeares birthplace, Stratford upon Avon. A circle was completed.
This song is a colossus, an enduring anthem for us to return to time and again. He is beyond words. In deep and eternal gratitude 🙏
And it's beautiful ain't it ✌️😎
Beautiful words, yours and his. He's inspiring indeed-- it was floating around in the comments that he was 23 when he wrote this. I'm pretty sure I was nowhere near this aware of the world around me when I was 23. I'd love to know how he did it, what were those chance meetings he had and with who that set him on this iconoclastic path.
One that really surprises me is how little he talks about his family and home life. I suspect he was brought up in a home that would have fostered his talent, but he's so private about it that you'd never know. I haven't heard him say a single positive thing about his mother or father in any interview. The main thing I've heard him say is that he was born into the wrong family and basically had to reject everything.
Wow.
And yes!
To me Dylan is like Buddha.
As Buddha, the insulated transcendental child who sees the world eventually,
Dylan ventures out in his innocence of simple spiritual journalism, on God's crucial assignment.
The assignment to make sure we who are drowning will awaken to grab that life buoy of absolute truth. Bob Dylan is not of this world -he + his poetry legacy are life saving, so let's grab on.
Thank you for telling your story friend
Great story! Thank you so much for sharing it!
Every time I hear this song, and a litany of other Dylan songs, old and new, it blows my mind. Without blinking, Dylan explores the dystopic side of America, the side the masses lack the courage to face. A masterpiece in every way.
a lifetimes education in 1 track,as only bob can.
Greatest Bob Dylan song of all time.
It's up there.....
Let's make a list...say a list of Dylan songs that are so profound, and so full of lyrical intensity, that no one else has ever written a song like that...This song is one, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Lilly Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, The Times They Are A-Changin', The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, North Country Blues, Masters of War, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, When The Ship Comes In, Ballad in Plain D, The Ballad of Hollis Brown, Mr Tambourine Man, Who Killed Davey Moore, Hurricane, Love Minus Zero, Maggie's Farm, My Back Pages, BD's 115th Dream, Like A Rolling Stone, Ballad of A Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, Desolation Row, Tombstone Blues, Visions of Johanna, My Heart is In The Highlands, All Along the Watchtower, If Dogs Run Free, Chimes of Freedom, To Ramona, It ain't Me Babe, You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You go, Simple Twist of Fate, When You Gonna Wake Up, Blind Willie McTell...That's 34 songs. There are a lot of other great songs, but most of these are up in that hypnotizing stratosphere where no one else can go.....which ones did I miss? Which ones should be left off?
Joe Marshall .......to add to your impressive list, I can only think of “Tangled Up In Blue” off the top of my head, you’ve already listed all my favourites. “Only a Pawn In Their Game” is another one I always liked. Dylan has written so many amazing pieces, I’ll never understand folks who dismiss Bob because they don’t like his voice. I love the guy and his compositions speak for themselves. I guess not everyone digs lyrics?
Joe Marshall yes a staggering achievement of immense proportion
@@joemarshall4226 You missed one of the top 5 songs by Dylan "Angelina"
The greatest song of all time. Period.
Listening to this song in my truck while parked in the leaves in the woods with a bad catalytic converter is my favorite thing to do man
Bob opened up the magic of words and poetry when I was 15. I closed my eyes and was transported with visions. Like Rimbaud, Bob set the high water mark adding musical tones to the canvas. He also exemplified being cool in the groove and took the bull by the horns.
There are no words to accurately describe how brilliant this song is.......one of my top favorite Dylan songs, from one of his very best albums......
My first time hearing this. Holy shit, amazing. Every word even more appropriate today 55 years later. And I never knew that Bob Dylan invented rap 😀
Listen to Subterranean Homesick Blues
@@mattmoore377 Amen!
Have turned to this one many many times in my life...thankyou Bob..❤
In addition to everything amazing he's done, Bob Dylan was rapping before rap even existed
I can't believe that he is so gifted to remember every and I mean every word every time he performs this song, this man is very prophetic. Never will there another Bob Dylan, seems to me that God is rather fond of him, I know I am!!!!
God is fond of him yes
God is fond of every human because He created every one of us.
But unless we accept the Father and the Son then we're denying the creator and He will not force His will onto us.
It wouldn't surprise me if Dylan has ditched the gospel. But it also wouldn't surprise me if he's accepted Christ.
@@TheMidnightModder When your mind dives into these deep dark places you find that you're forced to fall in to some religion, simply to stay sane.
@@oliverfan9816 For the most part, yes. Because God heals.
never get tired of this masterpiece
Class class bless u mr. Dylan
His tongue’s on fire. Nothing’s really sacred, it’s not he/ she/ or it we have to look up to. God bless him. He’s a poet laureate
It would take me a hundred years to write something as good as that first verse, and this guy probably wrote it in ten minutes.
Dylan is the greatest songwriter who ever lived
1965. Crazy to think this song is 58 years old as the lyrics are still as fresh as the day they were written.
Dylan's greatest lyric, without question. IMO.
I heard Dylan in an interview answering the question "how did you write all those iconic songs" and his response (to paraphrase) "I can't do it anymore, there was a time when I wrote those early songs and it was like a kind of magic deep penetrating magic was happening....." was so bittersweet. Like he knows now as an old man that he was channeling something so profound it can't be duplicated.
Or but into words -even by Dylan himself.
can you imagine, 21 yo from Hibbings MN, in NYC for what 2 years, walk up to a couple of mics, one for his voice and one for the guitar, and rip out this flawless performance of a song that is unprecedented in American music. Man, the courage, the insane mastery of what he was trying to do, its supernatural. The little harp flourishes. He looks human, but...
He was 24 actually.