The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone Causes Galileo’s math book to get thrown What an insane set of lines

The greatest chorus ever written? "Mama's in the factory/She ain't got no shoes/Daddy's in the alley/He's looking for food/I'm in the kitchen with the tombstone blues"

I remember carving "The Sun's not yellow, it's chicken," on my desk in my first (and thankfully, only) year of college.

@Lumalnatti11

2 ай бұрын

What did you think the saying means? Sounds absurdly proud and arrogant to me. Plus the sun is white, not yellow until late sunset.

@dianarhyne

Ай бұрын

@@Lumalnatti11 The sun used to be yellow. You must be too young to know that.

55 years in and this is still some of the absolute wildest shit ever put to tape

@blairdawson9506

9 ай бұрын

Insanely listen to explain this 2020s

@edwardlouisbernays2469

8 ай бұрын

73 Years here, I agree the absolute wildest shit ever put to tape the Electric Guitar was a Nashville Fellow I can't remember his name,

@GuitarMatt

5 ай бұрын

​@@edwardlouisbernays2469 ​​It was the legendary Mike Bloomsfield. He died young in 1981. Signing off, a 50-yr from 1973... Glad to see that the next generations younger than me are passing on the torch too

No other pop songwriter in the world could have written a line like "Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride. You will not die, it's not poison."

@stateworker

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously, that verse may just be his best. It's mindblowingly good.

@jakesnacks1149

3 жыл бұрын

This isn't pop

@edwardwilson7858

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakesnacks1149 But by 1965 Bob had moved into the mainstream and he and others were having Top 10 hits with his songs. Dylan and The Beatles were stretching the definition of what was termed "pop"

@Driecnk

2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardwilson7858 Into something else

@steveconn

2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardwilson7858 The Beatles a generic boyband until Bob made them write some decent lyrics.

These lyrics are fucking incredible

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride. You will not die, its not poison. Beautiful

Probably one of my favorite Dylan songs. The bizarre drum beat, wailing vocals, and twisted lyrics all tangle so neatly together. Never gets old.

@williamdonnelly224

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely !

@duchess5218

4 жыл бұрын

William Fiske I don’t it’s that bizarre of a drumbeat. It’s basically classic blues

@robertdonaldson2316

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah these lyrics got me through basic training in 1981. They tried to break me and mold me to their version of a soldier. Me and Bobby kept our independence. Thank you Mr. D.

@thomasa.tucker2389

3 жыл бұрын

Kickass good song

@ddeegz9766

2 жыл бұрын

That lead guitar is so savage. Deranged. Beautiful song.

Fantastic guitar work.

His lyrics are great poetry, everyone knows that, but the way he sings so cleverly each word is also pure genius.

@katherinekirkwood9632

4 жыл бұрын

This song is crazy. My advise is not 2 let the boys in. I love it. 😄

@MajorTom88

4 жыл бұрын

@@katherinekirkwood9632 You will not die, it's not poison! :p

@katherinekirkwood9632

4 жыл бұрын

Genius 4 sure I am stuck on a song 4 today I can't hear enough of. EVERY GRAIN OF SAND REhearsal version my favorite as he whines better than the other versions but the lyrics r wrenching- fabulous omg omg Tomorrow I may b back 2 Tombstone Blues. Oresome talk about LYRICS 🔥🎉

@ryansanders419

3 жыл бұрын

Yes agreed

@ryansanders419

3 жыл бұрын

100 percent

Tombstone Blues is high on my list of best songs ever.

"A BALD WIG FOR JACK THE RIPPER WHO SITS AT THE HEAD OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE"Dylan Is a fuckin'genius.Tombstone blues Is a masterpiece like all the album

"Now I wish I could write you a melody so plain That could hold you dear lady from going insane That could ease you and cool you and cease the pain Of your useless and pointless knowledge" Here after finishing Carrie by Stephen King.

@drduzzit8761

Жыл бұрын

Same lmao

@GuitarMatt

5 ай бұрын

Amen!

Those guitar solos say everything I want to say

@imannonymous7707

Жыл бұрын

The one and only Mike Bloomfield, rip

@mikespaulding1118

Ай бұрын

Listen to Super Session , Mike Bloomfield and Al Cooper. Oh, yeah, and everything by the Butterfield Blues Band.

This song gave me so many one liners to use. My favorites are, "But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter," along with "To win friends and influence her uncle," and "The sun is not yellow it's chicken." Yeah!!

@williamdonnelly224

4 жыл бұрын

"The reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse."

I was lucky enough to see BOB DYLAN live on his first electric tour on november 12,1965 in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the electric songs he did was this song. Beautiful memories. I have seen Dylan 35 time and met him on July 17,1991 in Cleveland. He was really nice to me.

@greghale6272

4 ай бұрын

I was just over 15 in early 1966 when I saw Dylan and The Hawks, (minus Levon Helm, he had stayed in the US after all the booing) here in Perth Western Australia. First half acoustic second electric. Listening to music about to take a new direction. Maybe seen him about 7 times since then. Once with Tom Petty. Gave my Dylan LP collection to a Dylan music writer in Queensland a few years ago. Great days. I told my friend who went with me, that Dylan was a poet who set prose to music, much of it the blues.

@MrEdkern

4 ай бұрын

​@greghale6272 so please describe how the 66 dylan concert was in Perth. What did he look like. Was it loud. Did they boo him. Describe.

Bloomfield's guitar is amazing. It is like one long solo.

"I wish I could write you a melody so plain/That would hold you dear lady, from going insane/That could ease you and cool you and cease the pain /Of your useless and pointless knowledge" The greatest

@katherinekirkwood9632

4 жыл бұрын

No doubt about it.🚀🚀🚀

Every line a surreal gem delivered at a break-neck pace. And just look at that f**k you attitude in the album photo.

No one can and ever will touch Bob Dylan...!!!!

Mike Bloomfield showing Dylan fans what time it is!♥

The late great Mike Bloomfield killin it. Bob was right, in saying he was the best he had ever heard. Proved him correct..

@kathleenburke9853

2 жыл бұрын

Omg thank you for mentioning Mike Bloomfield playing the electric on this! I loved that guy when I first discovered him when I was a kid! This song is awesome all around!

@robertwoodward9231

2 жыл бұрын

@@kathleenburke9853 Yes Mike was the best no doubt. He would later join in with the great Paul Butterfield and start what many say was the start of the electric explosion and did session work that is to me is the best in music history. I'm saying Bloomfield was better than you can name at that period. Sadly he was found dead at 37 years old.

Rock n Roll's greatest album

He walks the Earth knowing he's Bob Dylan. Imagine that.

@chaitanya7

3 жыл бұрын

he'll tell you its not much differnet than walking the earth as anybody else

@annonymost9318

3 жыл бұрын

@@chaitanya7 except for some of us...pressuring him.......who have one more wish........to meet him...lol

@annonymost9318

3 жыл бұрын

Yes...must be a HUGE pain in his ass....lol

@lemmykay

3 жыл бұрын

@@chaitanya7 Damn right!

@michaeldevlin79

3 жыл бұрын

Bob doesn't walk He glides.

THE ENERGY IN THIS SONG IS INSANE!

@oliveeisner8964

5 жыл бұрын

It's so freaking good! Good god I love it.

@JohnSmith-kz8yo

5 жыл бұрын

mike Bloomfield on lead guitar

@ms-iz9ye

5 жыл бұрын

IAmD.J. I’m glad someone else noticed that. He could have kept going you just feel it

@thecynth3820

4 жыл бұрын

The drums are so active and messy - it's pretty much proto-proto punk.

@cityzen2717

4 жыл бұрын

METHEDRINE.

Dylan the greatest all time .

From folk to folk rock , blues , country, garage , punk and. Rap too really he king of the rock

It always gives me the chills when he says "tell me great hero", his voice is so on point

@user-bt6tl7xr5c

6 ай бұрын

I wonder the inspiration behind the voices on this album are or is

This is what we meant by psychedelic. The sudden expanding of your mind and thought process. Highway 61 and Bringing It Back Home were like rockets caroming through the minds of an entire generation. Not all hits were direct but when it did go off in your head it was transformational. I was thrown out of a record store listening booth when I got hit with "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" . I don't know what I yelled but that was the moment the lights came on. Every cut on both albums made you think, observe, imply, embrace, yada. By verse, by phrase by single word. It made your mind sparkle and your eyes pop. And it wasn't Magic. It was created by another human to his satisfaction and benefited the rest of us who happened to be there and needed exactly what he was sharing.

@juanduran9111

2 жыл бұрын

I understand you perfectly.

@koko-pu5vn

Жыл бұрын

Well said!! Thanks for sharing your experience of discovering Bobby D!!!!

@reddwing4368

Жыл бұрын

It's called alchemy friends

Great song, Bob was flying at this point, skooting around the ceiling, no-one ever caught him!

@danielgiraud1118

2 жыл бұрын

Very well said Chuck !

@patgalvez4563

9 ай бұрын

he was in the groove!

I love it when insanely iconic and respected songs and albums have weird, mysterious lyrics.

Underrated song. It feels as if I just transcended to another dimension.

That lead guitar cuts right through you

@alanpowell9369

Жыл бұрын

Like shards of ice!

@rich50ful

Ай бұрын

Micheal Bloomfield is on fire playing this song!

Interesting note: Anyone who has read Stephen Kings' Novel "Carrie", he quotes this song at the end of the book, " I wish I could write you a melody so plain........."

@elijahberg3606

5 жыл бұрын

u have already written three comments..

@viviandarkbloom100

5 жыл бұрын

@@elijahberg3606 Congratulations on your ability to count. Now show us you can spell.

@ToffeenoseToffeenose

4 жыл бұрын

viviandarkbloom100 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dylan couldn’t of wrote that any better

@themosspill6276

4 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah man I'm here after reading it too!

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

4 жыл бұрын

yes it don't forget Stephen King also wrote the book buy a title from this album from a Buick 6

I must be dreaming. All these great Bob Dylan songs are showing up. It's nice to see them, instead of those cheap cover versions. There is only one Bob Dylan. I have seen him live and buy his music. This is a great song from a great album. Rest in peace Michael Bloomfield.

@imannonymous7707

5 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah

@paulobrien7557

5 жыл бұрын

I've just bin made

@bellgab

4 жыл бұрын

All Rappers need to memorize the lyrics to: "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding"

@martianshoes

4 жыл бұрын

A little known fact: Charlie Daniels did some early session work for Dylan...

@Herzeleydt_Diesentrueb

3 жыл бұрын

RIP Robert Zimmerman...

Huge influence during HIGH school in the 60's....in super rural Indiana. Great escape music 4 sure. His unique talent will never be duplicated. We almost lost him in his bike wreck. Live well Robert Zimmerman!

The guitar breaks at the end of each chorus by mike Bloomfield are just AWESOME

If there's a song more perfect lyrically.... I've yet to hear it.

@oliveeisner8964

4 жыл бұрын

If there is then Bob wrote it.

I like how Bob allows comments on his channel

I have loved this song for decades. Dylan's view of society and culture through a kaleidoscopic magnifying glass and Bloomfield's absolutely on fire guitar fills pair perfectly to put this tune over the top. One of his very best of the period.

Listened to this for 40 years and it wasn't till about 5 years ago I noticed how the word at the end of every verse rhymes with previous verse . Nervous...commerce. just genius

@stephenlee1756

Жыл бұрын

Which is why the sun is a chicken!

@tonyqunta32

24 күн бұрын

Bob as far as I know really admired Dylan Thomas.

Mike Bloomfield plays a great lead guitar in this song with his trademark Telecaster! Thanks for posting!

My favorite bob dylan song, never get bored of this

One of my all time favorite lines...The city fathers, they're trying to endorse The reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse

@ericsmith718

3 жыл бұрын

I am aware of who Paul Revere is but could you school this millennial on what your interpretation of this line is? I am just curious what it means, not trying to be sarcastic or rude.

@scotchie42

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericsmith718 I have no idea.

@dylanthompson8511

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericsmith718 I believe it means, as well as the song in general, that the madmen are running the asylum, or should i say the world/government, and the chaos it causes for the poor, normal people just trying to get by (mamas lookin for food, has no shoes).

this song is like perpetually tumbling down a flight of MC Escher's stairs

After this amazing album I'm surprised that Bob wasn't called back to the crossroads to pay up.

Man I've been on a spiral into the Bob Dylan abyss, all after one Traveling Wilburys video.

@hespheiden1

5 жыл бұрын

You are entering a world of pain.

@cazatontos

4 жыл бұрын

You arent the first....

sometimes I picture Bob winding up Bloomfield like a toy while he's singing and then when he lets him go he's just off the fuckin' rails

Highway 61 revisited great album

The suns not yellow its chicken!!!!

@billfarnsworth7536

5 жыл бұрын

interpretation?

@thecynth3820

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps it's a commentary on "John the Baptists" (and generally the elites of this society) consume natural wonder (while the chorus show poor people who "got no food"). But it's abstract enough to be any number of things.

@apolloptx

4 жыл бұрын

@@billfarnsworth7536 That specific line is about how politicians (The Commander In Chief) spin words and never speak straight. Yellow and chicken are both slang for being a coward.

@billfarnsworth7536

4 жыл бұрын

@@apolloptx Well yeah, Trump is a pretty big coward, with ambitions to rule by royal decree (tweet). Could Trump be the new Louis XIV (ie "the Sun King").

@nedmanxxx

4 жыл бұрын

@Sam Houston Not a gotdamn thing , son...well , maybe a couple o things...come to think of it.

"...The geometry of innocence...causes Galileo's math book to get thrown..." 👏

Havent heard this in a long time still fire after so many years the poetry is fresh n crisp still so unbelievably good

@logos216

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Very well said!

That Butterfield blues band Has so much soul It's insane

@D45VR

2 жыл бұрын

Paul Butterfield band was so good.

James Williamson from Iggy and the Stooges got half his playing style from this song. Everyone talks about Clapton, but it's Bloomfield that guitar players first learned to to kick ass to.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

3 жыл бұрын

Eric has cited Bloom also as one of his favorites

@lesleyhalkett5675

2 жыл бұрын

I prefer Bloomfield myself

Proud to own this album.

I don't think many people back in the 60s understood Dylan. Many more today still don't get him. The first time I heard him in 84 I'm not quite sure i did. All I knew was I wanted more. Like a junkie wanting his fix. Love ya Bob.

Mike Bloomfield absolutely rips on this track

@brianvarela5563

3 жыл бұрын

He is known to melt faces with his riffs and solos. Just asked those at Newport

@pdkeast

2 жыл бұрын

Say you want acknowledgement for knowing who someone is and their work without actuality having any talent lmfao. F out of here.

@briangallagher3106

2 жыл бұрын

@@pdkeast what a lame comment.

@thomas.9157

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

This song sounds like riding through Dante's Inferno on a motorcycle.

@A-Pa-s-Plainjane

5 жыл бұрын

great analogy

@srg123ify

4 жыл бұрын

We all like motorcycles to some degree

@ryanlaurence569

4 жыл бұрын

@@srg123ify I know I do.

@duchess5218

4 жыл бұрын

Harrison McCartney = despite of all the danger

@oliveeisner8964

4 жыл бұрын

@@srg123ify Anyone have a match?

This song is pure genius. Even if it appears to be about nothing, the power is in the poetry. The music is lively and after all these years is still as energetic as when Dylan recorded it in 1965.

@dylanthompson8511

3 жыл бұрын

What'dya mean nothing? The world a nd it's leaders have gone mad, while normal people are suffering looking for food.

Bloomfield is fucking unreal here

A rollicking surreal gem from an "in the zone" Genius.

One of the most beautiful poems ever from the greatest artist of our times. Bob’s 1962-1966 run is one of the greatest artistic phases ever witnessed! And his 1973-1976, 1978-1981 and 1988-2020 runs are as good as that one...

@clovisotterspasm7144

7 ай бұрын

Why exclude John Wesley Harding, 1967?

@fasteddie9867

Ай бұрын

@@clovisotterspasm7144 I would exclude it too. Why exclude "Infidels"?

This is why the universe gave us rock n roll!!

I'm in the kitchen with the Tombstone Blues!!!

The story arc of this song perfectly covers the Colonel Kurz scenes in Apocalypse Now.

man what a guitar sound a blast from the past

I love the lead, but I also love what sounds like an acoustic guitar playing rhythm and then there's the rockin' bass. Makes for a sensational, one-off sound, never bettered..Acoustic and rock'n'roll, all rolled into one!

@randybackgammon890

6 ай бұрын

Why do you think it's acoustic rythym guitar on Satisfaction....no accident

It’s not that this song is the best ever, but it’s when it was released that was truly remarkable. I am convinced Dylan is a time traveler from the future, just like Little Richard was.

@danielgiraud1118

2 жыл бұрын

Lil' Richard sings Gospel. D'ye know dat ?

@bluestate69

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielgiraud1118 i did know dat!

@danielgiraud1118

2 жыл бұрын

@@bluestate69 : 'ello, 'ello mah Blueboy pretty green, I'm sure thou do know devil, devil, devil guitar wizard Melvin Taylor, twin in law wi' James Marshall Hendrix an' Lucky Peterson ? Melvin is a great Gospel player on Hammond organ. Today I've received a CD where he sings an' plays Gospel wi' Mavis Staples from the Staples Singers. But alle that iz nuthin' compared wi' Donald Trunk on wah-wah guitar (may he burns in hell). Lucky bastards yewh poor Yanks which still hath God on thy side.

@danielgiraud1118

Жыл бұрын

@@bluestate69 : So wot, lil' Sissy gurl ? Help ! I'm a Yank ! Wot do an altar boy an’ a Daesh child have in common ? Daesh's child only banged himself up once. » Understand who can, understand who wants.

Good driving music when your running late 2 work.

@rrock2025

3 жыл бұрын

You're

@ThomasBMawn

3 жыл бұрын

@@rrock2025 THANK YOU SO SO VERY MUCH FOR CORRECTING ME MR. R ROCK!!! You must be a english teacher I'm pretty sure!!!!!!!!!😬

Bob did his own thing pretty cool

Who still cranking this in 2022 !?

@jjslowhand

4 жыл бұрын

ME FOR SURE

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

4 жыл бұрын

sure am right here on the 16th of July 2020 my friend 🎶🌅🌌🚛 right in the old truckers jukebox CD player making my way out of baton rouge headed for Ardmore Oklahoma.

@lemurianmoongypsy9530

4 жыл бұрын

@@truckerkevthepaidtourist 🤘

@gregberry1812

3 жыл бұрын

He said crank

@annonymost9318

3 жыл бұрын

And all the way through this here life!!!!!!!!

One of Dylan's best songs helped along with some great guitar work from Mike Bloomfield.

Many people loved too much his folk period but for me this rock blues time was his best creative phase. 5 years of bliss and this album Is an eternal Masterpiece of ironic visionary lyrics and immense music. This Song Is hypnotic and so intense..Wow

One of the greatest album covers of all time,Bob lookin straight into the lens ,sayin you r not lookin at me I'm lookin right at you!

@MrEdkern

3 жыл бұрын

The highway 61 cover picture was taken in june of 1965 . He was sitting on the steps in front of his apartment in Manhattan in new your city. The dude behind him holding the camera is bob neiarth dylans friend. I love that picture too. Blond on blond front cover is cool too.

@karolk7711

Жыл бұрын

Dylan has great music but his art covers are ugly or boring, except for of course great blonde on blonde cover art and imo Nashville skyline looks cool

It's blues, but with better words. In fact, the best words in the business.

RIP Mike Bloomfield

That electric guitar work is so slick.

Its like an abstact painting.

@BDFAN65

3 жыл бұрын

I was about the make the same comment but you beat me to it 😎.

Carrie white is what I think of every time I hear this song

A masterpiece Pure poetry in motion Thanks Bobby Ya didn t leave me alone

@danielgiraud1118

2 жыл бұрын

Very well said Gaelic Buddy !

@reddwing4368

Жыл бұрын

@@danielgiraud1118 SLAINTE

Anything that starts with: "The sweet pretty things are in bed now, of course The city fathers, they're trying to endorse The reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse But the town has no need to be nervous" You KNOW it's gonna be good. So good. 😎

@filthyphillyboy

5 жыл бұрын

yeah but I'm in ¡TROUBLE! with the Tombstone Blues!

@danielhouseworth5714

5 жыл бұрын

Because feeling good is allright.

@decaffeinatedafrican5997

3 жыл бұрын

no idea what that even means but i knew it was freaking epic

@PaleNeon

3 жыл бұрын

It's a commentary on the red scare of the 1960s, in that political leaders are trying to sound the alarms over the approach of communism ('endorse the reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse" e.g. warn the public) but the populace isn't buying into it ("but the town has no need to be nervous").

@oliveeisner8964

3 жыл бұрын

@@PaleNeon i like your interpretation~ One of my all time favorite Bob songs. Top 10, sometimes top 5. The lyrics are so colorful and multi-layered. Peak Dylan for me! 😎

The town has no need to be nervous.

Is it just me or is Bob one cool cat

@RoyFive

5 жыл бұрын

Not just you, Fuzy.

@tentringer4065

4 жыл бұрын

He's like, far out, man.

@niallmcevoy5518

4 жыл бұрын

It's not you

@jjslowhand

4 жыл бұрын

ain't just you pal (Paul) i am 67 & addicted to ALL KINDS of music since i was 12 or 13. i have never seen or EVER heard of a cooler cat than Dylan. and there have been QUITE A FEW cool cats over the years especially back in the day. (Jimi, Johnny, Jorma (& Jack Casady) JJ, Eric, Duane, Ian, etc etc. I have seen most of them in concert & various "festivals", but i never saw Dylan. Not sure why, honestly. I was born, raised & always lived in So FL so i saw almost every band that played down there in late 60's-early to mid 70's at small charming dumps like Musicians Exchange in Ft Laud, Tobacco Road in MIA & "larger" venues like Pirates World in Dania, Hollywood Sportatorium, Mia Bch Convention Center, Miami Jai-Alai Fronton, Gusman Hall, UM Campus, Miami Marine Stadium, Gulfstream Park, WPB Auditorium etc. And of course we went to Greynolds Park on Sundays for free concerts. I am willing to bet there are a bunch of old folks like me that remember (or half-remember) that whole scene. Dylan is still performing and you just forced me to put him on my ASAP bucket list. He is the definition of cool cat. Thank you Sir

@katherinekirkwood9632

4 жыл бұрын

Holy God where does he come from 🚀

Damn, Rhyming "boys in" with "poison" is just genius

@chimakinor

4 жыл бұрын

mom's spaghetti

@katherinekirkwood9632

4 жыл бұрын

Is there a hole 4 me 2 get sick in. OMG OMG. On & on how Bob how 2 u come up with this ?🎶

@steph_knarr

4 жыл бұрын

@@katherinekirkwood9632 meth

@katherinekirkwood9632

4 жыл бұрын

@@steph_knarr ?

@steph_knarr

4 жыл бұрын

@@katherinekirkwood9632 dude was doing a lot of drugs, ESPECIALLY uppers like methamphetamine at the time

Thia song makes me wanna wim friends and influence my uncle

everything I say EVERYTHING in this song is perfect. PERFECT, I say!!!!

Greasy beautiful Rythem section Pushing and pushing Till blast off So cool So great Thanks

His first two electronic albums were his best..

Genius & Timeless!! Although sucked in concert. It's ok within his lyrics is priceless wisdom. Thank you Mr. Zimmerman. 👍👌🤔

this album is simply amazing

@kevinjoseph517

Жыл бұрын

his winning streak---the album before this, this, blonde, basement tapes, harding or hardin.

When I die, I want all my Dylan albums in my coffin. God may have a record player...right?

Wonderful - and as for that guitar.....

Simply BRILLIANT!

I forgot how god-damn good this song is Bob!

What a vision, somebody throw out the script I'm on fire with inspiration. One of my fav dylan songs.

how great is this!!! National Anthem!

Forgot how hilarious this was! I used to play this over and over when I was in my teens. I'm still laughing out loud.

@PollisDrake

Жыл бұрын

"Is there a hole for me to get sick in?" 😂

I just like the way you write a song, Bob. Plain and simple.

Bob Dylan is epic, now I'll listen to Brazilian metal

No matter the situation, there will always be Poverty in this world, is what Bob is saying in the Song, IMHO.