"Money doesn't talk, it swears." What a fucking line.

@Wingone18

3 жыл бұрын

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!

@ajaypalsinghbhatti8901

3 жыл бұрын

Ask a man who is dying he just want a day more to live not money or women.

@dixonpinfold2582

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@midnightok3er

3 жыл бұрын

100

@thegreenbird795

2 жыл бұрын

fucking a!

He was 23 yrs old when he wrote this. 🤯

@roquetinsixtysix

20 күн бұрын

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!

@Blackbird58

7 күн бұрын

I was thinking that very same thing!

This song opens all the windows: pure genius, it is as relevant now as it was in 1965.

@catbreath8361

22 күн бұрын

DUde grow up.

"He not busy being born is busy dying." Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan! 80 years old today. :)

Every line in this song would be a career defining for almost everybody else.

One of the best songs ever written in the history of mankind.

@paulobrien7557

5 жыл бұрын

That's a big like from me

@pavlovsunhappydog

4 жыл бұрын

And me..

@hippiecheezburger5457

4 жыл бұрын

It’s life and life only

@SuperToombs

4 жыл бұрын

you took the comment right out of my brain

@rogertopp3551

4 жыл бұрын

Second that

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.

“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

@shinyguy3766

3 жыл бұрын

The old Republic will rise in the ashes of this new world like a phoenix.

@tysonrinker5958

2 жыл бұрын

No kidding

@waynejohanson1083

2 жыл бұрын

The Song goes deep

@jm-tl6od

2 жыл бұрын

MASONS

@elrondhubbard7059

4 ай бұрын

@@jm-tl6od The globe-Earth is a Masonic lie.

Imagine being able to write this song. Bob's a fucking master, there's no other song like this one, fucking great.

@Max_j9578

3 жыл бұрын

There are other songs, they're also Bob Dylan songs.

@markmcgrath8051

3 жыл бұрын

You know Kidda😉

@edwardcoe7293

3 жыл бұрын

Hey man, don't sit on the fence - say what you really think! 😉

@ajaypalsinghbhatti8901

3 жыл бұрын

He is the best boss in the poetry. Pure bliss like gold.

@midnightok3er

3 жыл бұрын

Like, what was going on in his head? This is theology via guitar n song.

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

@CAPTMAHI

Жыл бұрын

Horse balls.

@jillybe1873

Жыл бұрын

Wow!!!

@hermione9445

Жыл бұрын

And some of your school mates stil remember l bet .👍

@_scabs6669

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the devil is said to have written it

@charliebrown3579

Жыл бұрын

Excellent feat dude

More meaning in one song than many artists can achieve in an entire career

@_scabs6669

Жыл бұрын

Than any artist... Maybe the Smiths

@mindsigh4

Жыл бұрын

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

@denniscannon7834

Жыл бұрын

Written by the best song writer ever

@flutterby1210

Жыл бұрын

@@denniscannon7834 Got that right!

@lenacohen8913

9 ай бұрын

​@@denniscannon7834nope. The best song writer ever was Leonard Cohen.

It always blows my mind that this was recorded in one take.

@heynow2302

Жыл бұрын

Dylan is a true Music Artist that's my thoughts on it.🙂

@jonathanb1406

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@stephenham6512

3 ай бұрын

Because it had to be said and he knew he was the one who had to say it

@Blandy0487

28 күн бұрын

I think everything was those days

@jonathanb1406

28 күн бұрын

@@Blandy0487 It wasn't.

Only Dylan could have released such a sharp, biting song that is still relevant to this day.

@markwall9282

5 жыл бұрын

Try Steppenwolf,s Monster.

@paulhynes170

5 жыл бұрын

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

@collinadams2906

5 жыл бұрын

And I think it shall always be relevant.

@paulhynes170

5 жыл бұрын

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

@SiD14KiLLs

5 жыл бұрын

@@paulhynes170 try the version on dylanchords.info

[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

@walkingmanhisdogtakingvide3901

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting the lyrics

@Wuei108

2 жыл бұрын

@@walkingmanhisdogtakingvide3901 You are welcome.

@coffeehugger

2 жыл бұрын

That was helpful, obviously a die hard fan. :)

@keitheddie5

2 жыл бұрын

@@coffeehugger there are many here among us who think that life is but a joke

@patrickgirard7645

2 жыл бұрын

Verset 6 mauvaise traduction... C'est plutôt.. Même le président des États-Unis doit un moment se tenir nu !

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 😀

@mattmoore377

2 жыл бұрын

Listen to Subterranean Homesick Blues

"Bent out of shape from society's pliers". Ok, the Nobel prize is deserved for that line just by itself.

Blows my mind every time that a person actually wrote those lyrics

@nikkifisher1998

5 жыл бұрын

I thought this was a pretty good track all in all

@LosHuxleys

5 жыл бұрын

The rhyme scheme is so complex it is almost ridiculous

@blank9354

5 жыл бұрын

More like the devil..

@chrismendoza4355

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@guillermosantolaria9932

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrismendoza4355 lol

Easy to see why Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize, his verses are so meaningful and enduring.

@vincenzoverse-anon6230

4 жыл бұрын

His Words are so deep indeed so many depths

@user-rh5yf2wz8l

4 жыл бұрын

True

@theholyearthgod1363

4 жыл бұрын

Nobel equals shit now that the mindboggling Bob Dylan has departed the deep state

@shiitakestick

4 жыл бұрын

The Holy Earth God - when then enjoy your prize..

@shiitakestick

4 жыл бұрын

Brian Ripley - jeez , took long enough ..

Has there ever been a greater, more prolific poet? I think not.

@marianmisirgic4005

2 жыл бұрын

Yes,it is.

@abigailclarkwall1935

2 жыл бұрын

@@nextideathink.it’s only people’s games you got to dodge!

@andygrant9733

2 жыл бұрын

Try Paul Simon

@branthomas1621

2 жыл бұрын

@@nextideathink Wash your mouth out boy, Kayne West and go West and stay. Hogwash

@thebacons5943

2 жыл бұрын

@@andygrant9733 Simon? lolololololololololololol stop

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.

@martincvitkovich724

3 жыл бұрын

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!

@sethstine4698

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@oobedoos

3 жыл бұрын

better late than never

@radcow

3 жыл бұрын

Wow really spoke to me in my teens

@kevanbrown7620

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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.

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.

@midnightok3er

3 жыл бұрын

Also give kendrick Lamar credit. It was an unconventional but well deserved tip of the cap.

@layicorn

2 жыл бұрын

Kendrick Lamar is the Bob Dylan of modern music

@ajaypalsinghbhatti8901

2 жыл бұрын

Master of words. A magician of words. Cheers mr. Bob Zimmerman Dylan. Live long.

@p51abc

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@latitudeselongitudes1932

2 жыл бұрын

Artistically,culturally,to me,the 20th century is Dylan,The Beatles and Picasso. Iconic,gigantic forces of art,creativity

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

@elstonngunn4193

3 жыл бұрын

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

@matthewbrown4737

3 жыл бұрын

Truth

@JM-co6rf

3 жыл бұрын

'freakish talent', well put

@padgemahaj3167

3 жыл бұрын

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

@AB-mf8le

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

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.

@angusmount3913

Жыл бұрын

I believe u

@scottrhodes6923

Жыл бұрын

WOW!!!

@matthewbowen3987

Жыл бұрын

Its on my shroom play list

@richardyoung7415

Жыл бұрын

I SEE HIM THERE EVERY NIGHT, COOL SHIT YEAH. PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL MY FRIEND'S. 🙏✌️😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@chriswillock1062

Жыл бұрын

Good choice sir

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

@ajaypalsinghbhatti8901

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@dixonpinfold2582

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@gregmann8981

2 жыл бұрын

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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kayGztGjpKfKddY.html

One of the most accurate and scathing attacks on the sacred cow of American values ever written. The man is a prophet.

This is probably the best song I've ever heard. Brilliant songwriting. So glad I found Bob Dylan.

@CivilizedWarrior

Жыл бұрын

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.

@smithwilliam6837

Жыл бұрын

Did not know that you lost him

@jaboi32

Жыл бұрын

Ameen/Amen to that

@geneevans2600

10 ай бұрын

​@@CivilizedWarrior... and wasn't rapped up in himself

@Internutt2023

10 ай бұрын

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.

Imagine hearing this on the radio today...

@MrPiccolop

Жыл бұрын

no chance. there would be uproar from the powers that be.

@randomletters8486

Жыл бұрын

@@MrPiccolop it would be nipped in the bud by the censors that be, im so glad to hear it live.

@vinterkatt1959

Ай бұрын

The public today are so impressed by image,fireworks and totally meaningless lyrics😢

'Bent out of shape by society's pliers'. So much truth here if almost scary.

@celtickshatriya4306

3 жыл бұрын

Cares not to come up any higher,but rather drag u down in the hole that hes in.😊

With a song like this one could argue that Bob was the godfather of rap

@user-kn5on8tj4y

2 ай бұрын

I totally agree🎉🎉🎉My sons a rapper and he totally agrees too!

This might be the most amazing song Dylan ever wrote!

@TeddyRidal

13 күн бұрын

Sounds like folk rap 😁

@Blackbird58

7 күн бұрын

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..

There’s something darkly magical about Bob Dylan idk how to explain it. It’s like someone seeing through a veil

Easily some of the most haunting lyrics ever and presented in a haunting way

@not2tees

4 жыл бұрын

True - not only the words but the voice are full of the shock of the whatever it is that makes things true.

@wighto73

4 жыл бұрын

he was... connected!

When you listen to this song in your car, your car explodes after a while.

@sametharmanc3816

3 жыл бұрын

Mine exploded while ago :)

@secko1983

3 жыл бұрын

Only if you have a catalytic converter

@davidwood9966

3 жыл бұрын

Only if you park on leaves

@elstonngunn4193

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidwood9966 hahahaha sopranos

@damienvantassel7686

3 жыл бұрын

I played this song in my car, and the song exploded.

How the fuck do you write a song this good lmao

Simply genius at some point in every human beings life they should hear this

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

Masterclass. What must it have been like, being Bob Dylan and having these songs surging out of you?

The man pushed lyrical structure to it's breaking point!

@Blackgeoff1

Жыл бұрын

So true .... the structure, or architecture, in Dylan's songs were amazing.

"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

@billneary691

Жыл бұрын

Shakespearian words, he's a Bard.

@Blackgeoff1

Жыл бұрын

That's very good ..

@micheleulysse

Жыл бұрын

I agree! Always did! But he actually won it in 2016...

@lynnkent2318

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!!

@ivanmclaren9509

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, seems he sold his soul to the devil... that's who would get the Nobel Prize.

The track to play your friend who doesn't get what all the fuss is about.

The lyrics.... one or maybe the most profound and perhaps the deepest 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.

I can't believe I've listened to this song almost 700,000 times.

@whatisup4811

4 жыл бұрын

I also can't believe that. 4.38(the length of the song in minutes)x700 000=3066000 seconds 3066000=851.6666667 hours.

@Max_j9578

4 жыл бұрын

@@whatisup4811 I actually clicked on the song 7000 times at once, and did it once every day for the next ten days.

@whatisup4811

4 жыл бұрын

@@Max_j9578 Why? I get it, I like the song but that seems excessive

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@claudettepreisinger

4 жыл бұрын

@@meyou-dv8ns If you really don't understand these lyrics, then you must live in a fairy land bubble....

@SpTh2

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@jackzaffos9347

Жыл бұрын

I was a teenager as well when I first heard this. I got the chills then and now at 73!

@claudettepreisinger

Жыл бұрын

@@jackzaffos9347 Agreed...

In 500 years time only one artist from our time will be celebrated still... Bob Dylan.

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!

@midnightok3er

3 жыл бұрын

Great way to connect. I'm sorry for your loss.

@marciahoaglen9971

3 жыл бұрын

I totally fell your heartfelt words. Not many parents heard this poets words with so much passion. Your Mom a treasure.

@donvirili1691

3 жыл бұрын

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!)

@TheHopeyounginak

2 жыл бұрын

Oh she must be a very proud and lucky mother!!

@bainbasinger8548

2 жыл бұрын

may peace wash all over your beutiful self

No wonder he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

A masterpiece of poetry.

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.

@eslovexc

4 жыл бұрын

Truth

@midnightok3er

3 жыл бұрын

Well said.

@tiddybagel

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing articulation of the beauty of this masterpiece .

@zoey9764

2 жыл бұрын

Right On !!!

@nonconformist9991

2 жыл бұрын

Check out last thoughts on Woodie Guthrie one of the greatest poems ever written by Bob Dylan.

Going through a tough time right now and I don't know how much worse it would be without Dylan's music

@bendrescher7185

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you get through whatever is happening

@thejudderman8265

3 жыл бұрын

You can get through it, don’t be afraid to ask for help.

@bmxseeker6780

2 жыл бұрын

Amen to that brother

@yamapenny5960

2 жыл бұрын

@@bendrescher7185 Its just the Demokratie allover is running out.... "corona helps"

@yamapenny5960

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

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.

@inoshikachokonoyarobakayar2493

3 ай бұрын

The clip of him saying that brought me here. 😆 He iight'

@joejones9520

3 ай бұрын

he stopped taking speed

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.

@vincenzoverse-anon6230

4 жыл бұрын

I know huh, lol

@tomquazar3472

4 жыл бұрын

That's why he is called the poet!

@AJ-oc5eh

4 жыл бұрын

totally agree.

@rogertopp3551

4 жыл бұрын

Allways fresh, even after a 1000 times

@BeeHatGuy

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Can't wait to see your movie

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

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.

The greatest lyrics of ALL TIME. Sorry folks, the game is over.

@bluegenes2273

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, man. That's a tall order.

@bluegenes2273

3 жыл бұрын

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

@bojokeson9001

2 жыл бұрын

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

@tyrekecantrell5941

2 жыл бұрын

@@bluegenes2273 Cake?! Is that some joke?

@bluegenes2273

2 жыл бұрын

@@tyrekecantrell5941 cake. not cakez.

*"money doesn't talk, it swears"*

@Katarinatorn

3 жыл бұрын

Humans are the only ones that has to PAY to live on their own planet. That is going to change soon though lol

@sidDkid87

3 жыл бұрын

@@Katarinatorn this planet has no need for us

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

@Carlossantanamusicinc

Жыл бұрын

Hello dear, how’re you doing today? It’s nice meeting you on here.

In addition to everything amazing he's done, Bob Dylan was rapping before rap even existed

I know it’s a difficult choice, but his greatest? He was on fire writing this masterpiece.

@nonamo

2 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking, maybe his greatest.

@LosHuxleys

Жыл бұрын

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…

@StatistikinDD

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@bluegregory6239

7 ай бұрын

@@nonamo His 'best' is subjective, but this is certainly my favorite Dylan song.

I don't say this lightly - This IS lyrically the BEST song EVER written and recorded.

@anarchyeddy27

4 жыл бұрын

I agree, but I think that about a lot of his songs.

@Harmonicaman1000

4 жыл бұрын

Joel Coote oh yes. He shares his heart and story✝️🕊🎶👍

@mysticwine

2 ай бұрын

He was a master of 1 liners. "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

I'm still Spellbound after all of these years I can't get enough of this guy he's infectious

@Carlossantanamusicinc

Жыл бұрын

Hello dear, how’re you doing today? It’s nice meeting you on here.

How someone can be upset Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize for Literature I will never understand.

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 aren't words sufficient enough to describe this song's greatness

@user-bt6tl7xr5c

10 ай бұрын

I wish they had producers cut albums along with the artists cuts versions of albums

Sadly, NOTHINGS CHANGED since he wrote this...

@Freespeech141

4 жыл бұрын

Judy Corso Oh Yes! Still the song for a young person questioning!!

@redskindan78

4 жыл бұрын

Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Made everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred 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 An' 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

@robertwhitby5192

4 жыл бұрын

Desire to change, is the enemy of love.

@rogertopp3551

4 жыл бұрын

That part is like a broken record, same crap different day, decade, century

@thesongtowoody

4 жыл бұрын

Theres nothing sad. Theres good news, Christ died for sinners and all who believe in him and his work will PHYSICALLY rise just as Jesus rose. If you dont believe that. Why are you sad? just blow your head off what difference does it make from an atheistic worldview? Why are you boo hoo ing if your just a grow up germ of evolution and randomn processes? be consistent, either the universe is cold and indifferent and you should stop crying if not, get yourself into a healthy church, pray, and read the bible. Great song, but this song wont lead you to the ultimate truth. its brilliant but leaves you stuck in a dead end vicious cycle. in one sense, the song means nothing and tells you nothing. you think there is some brilliant truth in there? the delivery is brilliant but the answer not there, thats why dylan knew he eventually had to write precious angel and when he returns.

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

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.

@PatrickPierceBateman

2 жыл бұрын

Bob Dylan, he's more creative than Spielberg and predicts thing just like Quasimodo.

@MrDaoJones

2 жыл бұрын

I think it just kind of goes to show that while many things have appeared to change since then, nothing really has

@MKActual.

Жыл бұрын

Amen to that

@_scabs6669

Жыл бұрын

Did he see or cause the future

@joejones9520

Жыл бұрын

it's ambiguous so can be applied to anything from any time period...

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......

I cannot begin to explain how much this song has done for me. Thank you for being there always, Bob Dylan.

@Carlossantanamusicinc

Жыл бұрын

Hello dear, how’re you doing today? It’s nice meeting you on here.

@2paraLLknight

Жыл бұрын

Has friend. In busnessof fish

@2paraLLknight

Жыл бұрын

Is it?

@2paraLLknight

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Patti Smith for being a true Dylan fan your purrformance purfect tell em z

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

I heard these words then I was sixteen and I forgot over time how important these words are. They still ring richer today.

Bobby is an epic genius matched only by historical greats, Billy Shakespeare and Fydor D, but this was a one off even by his standards. The depth of meaning in the lyrics drip through the most perfect rhymes I've ever heard.

I reckon decades, even centuries could roll by and this song, let's hope it remains recorded somewhere, will still be one of the most timelessly relevant statements in the history of mankind. The sheer confidence of conviction in the statement in some next level mental gymnastics and linguistic structuring. The man is a poetic wizard.

“I kept telling you this guy was good” The Sopranos

Have turned to this one many many times in my life...thankyou Bob..❤

a lifetimes education in 1 track,as only bob can.

Dylan himself says he doesn’t know where this and other songs of this era came from. Touched by The Divine Hand.

@patcurrie3313

4 жыл бұрын

I wrote all of dylans songs ha ha ha

@loganreece3263

4 жыл бұрын

@Dangerz Own Psychedelics do NOT give one such depth of vocabulary and skill of language as is necessary to write songs like Dylan´s.

@shiitakestick

4 жыл бұрын

not touched by the Divine Hand , more like kicked in the ass by the Divine Foot !

@jamiewebber8555

4 жыл бұрын

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

@sherrih.2693

4 жыл бұрын

All poets bring the essence of history of others coming into their realm like ghosts wishing to speak.

There's more quality in that one song than most writers could come up with in a whole career.

You know there’s something up when a folk singer uses way more complicated rhyme schemes than any rapper now of days lol. Definitely one of the most well written songs of all time.

As far as song writers Bob Dylan is on top by himself and it’s not even close!!!!!

I just attended "Church with Bob Dylan," today, 8/24/19!" Anyone else listening to this amazing song in 2019?

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!!!!

@Katarinatorn

3 жыл бұрын

God is fond of him yes

@TheMidnightModder

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@oliverfan9816

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@TheMidnightModder

3 жыл бұрын

@@oliverfan9816 For the most part, yes. Because God heals.

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

@Blackgeoff1

Жыл бұрын

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.

@harrietbradleygillen3028

Жыл бұрын

Unutterably brilliant. Pins down the crazed world we struggle in today

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

@leonmeizlik9211

11 ай бұрын

Yes. One of the best lyrics in this masterpiece. I cannot believe Dylan wrote this without heavenly intervention.

It is not possible to dislike a Bob Dylan song.

@Nick-Emery

14 күн бұрын

You need a conversation with my girlfriend… she gets so annoyed when I play Bob Dylan… she then proceeds to puts some mad techno bang bang music on in the next room because she knows it annoys me… sometimes I wonder why we’re together 😂

This gem is just as relevant today as it ever was.

This was brilliantly used in The Sopranos final episode.

@blueschewy2558

5 жыл бұрын

Too bad the CD went up in flames with the Xterra.

@avlacier

5 жыл бұрын

And Billions

@landerperez

5 жыл бұрын

That's where i discovered it

@cravinbob

5 жыл бұрын

and in "Easy Rider"

@brianjayne140

4 жыл бұрын

Stems on blondie

Love the poetry in protesting that Dylan revolutionised. Not a lot of people can make songs that are angry and just without actually sounding angry or using swear words anymore. "Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Make everything from toy guns that spark, To flesh-coloured Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far, That not much is really sacred." Thank you, Dylan. And a belated happy 80th birthday!

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...

@Whatzzzz999

2 жыл бұрын

He was 24 actually.

Thank god there are people that think like me. Feels good in the Age of Trumpster the Dumpster. Thank you Bob Dylan. When you die as we all must, I will cry pearls.

Nobody can top this one. Greatest ever written.

I swear bob dylan was the first rapper

One of the greatest song ever written. Bob is the greatest artist of our times.

@johnroemhild3759

Жыл бұрын

Yes I agree--the greatest artist of our time!

“Don’t hate nothing but hatred” goes hard asf

How can one man have so much words in him... He can write stuff like this then two minute stuff like lay lady lay. Genius

@Gaul1748

5 жыл бұрын

Right. He has the muse of a poet. They were right to give him the Nobel prize.

@MichaelMyers-mc1gg

5 жыл бұрын

And you thought Jesus was cool.

@migliorstore4780

5 жыл бұрын

Elementary. He didn't have enough patience and read the ending of the book. But, don't fear, it's no spoiler.

@user-rh5yf2wz8l

4 жыл бұрын

He's one of the quiet, deep thinkers who only speaks if he's got something intelligent to say, otherwise he's quiet...like that saying , _"The more one talks, the less one thinks."_

Keep it in your mind and don't forget that it is not he, she, them, or it that you belong to.

@not2tees

4 жыл бұрын

I used to sit and listen to this over and over when I was a teenager, and I'm still amazed by it about 60 years later.

@Freespeech141

4 жыл бұрын

not2tees Me too! What a gift

@michaelcelani8325

3 жыл бұрын

It has a biult in contradiction that adds to it's power. Each verse is sad. Things that are wrong and unfair and even terrifying about life, that are not understandable. And yet the over all effect is one of energy, and maybe even joy. (dare I say it ). He says don't worry Ma, I will make it. It is really a Mountain of emotions and reactions to this world we all live in. ( a Dylan quote I really like, " The world that is seen- and the world that is not seen" ). ..for me it can be overwhelming sometimes .

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.

This song is truer today than ever!!!!

One of the best songs ever written