Bob Dylan Lyrics

    ------ About the song John Brown performed by Bob Dylan

What a great song.Listen to it on is unplugged record.It gets to your gut.May all these puppet soldiers going to war for the great imperial USA hear this song.WAR is WRONG.LOVE is the answer..

    ------ About the song Mr. Tambourine Man performed by Bob Dylan

until you can strum three cords and hum along this song, or learn the lyrics and sing it by heart-- from the heart-- ( SOLO ) start to finish or a combination of the two or in some fashion of your own --PERFOM-- this song, there by making it "YOUR OWN"....then i can't believe anyone can honestly and/or inteligently speak of or to this MASTERPIECE!!!!!

    ------ About the song Desolation Row performed by Bob Dylan

I believe that Dylan wrote this song as a stream of consiousness that he didn't censor. It just flowed out of him, as most poetry does. He wrote it quickly I believe, in the back of a NYC taxicab. The words describe my life as if it were playing it back to me on a big movie screen. Exact descriptions of people I've known including a few of their names and each verse describes a different scene that holds together as a specific event. I'm not crazy! I just know that this was channeled by him. There are two verses that haven't happened yet. It's amazing.

    ------ About the song Not Dark Yet performed by Bob Dylan

For me, Not Dark Yet is Bob Dylan's greatest song; sheer perfection, I can hardly breathe while it spins. I'll never forget standing 15 feet from him when he performed it in Atlanta's Chastain Park amphitheater; incredible.

    ------ About the song Isis performed by Bob Dylan

In the third last stanza, it should read: 'I CURSED her one time, then I rode on ahead' not 'kissed' which obviously doesn't make sense. It's a crucial word that reflects the bi-polar nature of love.

    ------ About the song Positively 4th Street performed by Bob Dylan

I believe most people live vicariously in the deeds of others. The street bums from 4th street thought they owned Dylans mind and music. Much like the snobs from newpot Folk festival. When his lyrics were not anti-establishment for them they turned on him. When he took "The Band" on stage with him the Folk lemmings freaked out. Ask Levon Helm or the rest of thr Band how it felt to be booed off the stage before you started playing by this gang! Dylan is a lyrical genius period.

    ------ About the song Shooting Star performed by Bob Dylan

Like Yeat' 'When You Are Old' the speaker is musing on and old flame using light imagery to accent the emotions. Dylan's title compares with Yeats' personification about how "Lve fled/And hid his face among a crowd of stars." The setting of the latter is a quaint sitting room where the woman "bending down before the glowing bars" is ruing her rejection of the speaker much earlier in life. The speaker has not forgotten this rejection and transforms what should be a room full of tenderness and warmth by the fire into a lair of lonlieness.
Dylan's use of fire is more ominous as "the last firetruck from hell" speeds into eternity intensifying the burning sense of loss as ultimately Dylan mourns the woman whom he has let "slip away'.
Metaphor and light imagery at it's finest as Dylan captures the essence of love's radiance in the form of a shooting star flaming out at the end.
Incidentally, Dylan was in his second marriage during the OH Mercy period but can't help think Sara is still in his heartall these years later much as Maud Gonne always haunted yeats.

    ------ About the song Shooting Star performed by Bob Dylan

The 'shooting star' metphor used here is effective because it is evocative of the blazing albeit terminal relationship he speaks of in the song. The tone is rueful wistful("I thought of you","I thought of me") as the speaker reflects on a failed relationship that apparently failed when the woman' elevated standards were not met.
Shooting stars are rare and don't last long but their brilliance in crossing the sky is one of nature's many highlights. We awed at the radiance but disappointed in their brevity. Relationships are so much like shooting stars in this light. In the song the awe is trumped by the disappointment as the speaker reflects on the loss and disappointment
More to come.

    ------ About the song Don't Think Twice, It's All Right performed by Bob Dylan

This song is one of my all time favorite Bob Dylan songs. "Don't think twice, it's alright." People do what they do, they hurt you, and if you don't worry about it neither should they, and vice versa. Oh Robert Zimmerman, you've gotten me through many a rough time..

    ------ About the song Girl From The North Country performed by Bob Dylan

Missed verse #4

"I'm wondering if she remembers me at all
Many times I often prayed
In the darkness of my night
In the brightness of my day."

Verse #2 "if you go when the snowflakes"
must say "if you go in the snowflakes"

Not sure which version these lyrics come from;
in the original version the two last verses are only one, the last (the previous one should be ignored).

Thank you very much for the excellent quality of your lyrics.
I hope my correction will help.