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MOST profound Dylan songs

IndianSummerIndianSummer Posts: 854
edited March 2007 in Other Music
which are the most profound Dylan songs you can think of.

please supply a few lines to drive home your point.


i am listenning to DONT THINK TWICE ITS ALRIGHT now. This song is just awesome and moving in its degree of profoundness.

the last 4 lines are -

I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right



Another moving and profound Dylan song that comes to mind is "EVERY GRAIN OF SAND".
I have faced it, A life wasted...

Take my hand, my child of love
Come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean,
I've been crying all these years
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  • DeLukinDeLukin Posts: 2,757
    I'm not a huge Dylan fan, but Masters of War has some deadly venom in it which I like a lot:

    You've thrown the worst fear
    That can ever be hurled
    Fear to bring children
    Into the world
    For threatening my baby
    Unborn and unnamed
    You ain't worth the blood
    That runs in your veins.
    I smile, but who am I kidding...
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Love minus zero/no limit

    My love she speaks like silence,
    Without ideals or violence,
    She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
    Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
    People carry roses,
    Make promises by the hours,
    My love she laughs like the flowers,
    Valentines can't buy her.

    In the dime stores and bus stations,
    People talk of situations,
    Read books, repeat quotations,
    Draw conclusions on the wall.
    Some speak of the future,
    My love she speaks softly,
    She knows there's no success like failure
    And that failure's no success at all.

    The cloak and dagger dangles,
    Madams light the candles.
    In ceremonies of the horsemen,
    Even the pawn must hold a grudge.
    Statues made of match sticks,
    Crumble into one another,
    My love winks, she does not bother,
    She knows too much to argue or to judge.

    The bridge at midnight trembles,
    The country doctor rambles,
    Bankers' nieces seek perfection,
    Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.
    The wind howls like a hammer,
    The night blows cold and rainy,
    My love she's like some raven
    At my window with a broken wing.
  • transplanttransplant Posts: 1,088
    Idiot Wind.

    I can't feel you anymore,
    I can't even touch the books you've read
    Every time I crawl past your door,
    I been wishin' I was somebody else instead.
  • orig_long redorig_long red Posts: 2,029
    transplant wrote:
    Idiot Wind.

    I can't feel you anymore,
    I can't even touch the books you've read
    Every time I crawl past your door,
    I been wishin' I was somebody else instead.

    you'll never know the hurt i've suffered
    nor the pain i rise above
    and i'll never know the same about you
    your holiness or your kind of love
    and it makes me feel so sorry.
    Jam out with your clam out.
  • NickyNoochNickyNooch Posts: 629
    Basically the entire song "Things Have Changed"


    'People are crazy and time are strange
    I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
    I used to care, but things have changed'

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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Love minus zero/no limit

    My love she speaks like silence,
    Without ideals or violence,
    She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
    Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
    hands down the best opening few lines to a love song ever.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • larslars Posts: 524
    definately troops of doom....sepultura really destroyed that song
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  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    hands down the best opening few lines to a love song ever.
    Even the title itself sends chills down my spine.

    'It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" might be the most profound song I've ever heard.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    Even the title itself sends chills down my spine.

    'It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" might be the most profound song I've ever heard.
    I agree with you entirely. I can't comprehend how someone could even go about writing a song like that.

    "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 them naturally
    Life sometimes
    Must get lonely."

    It is, lyrically, utterly mindblowing.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • BetterManningNYGBetterManningNYG Posts: 777
    i will agree with it's alright ma (i'm only bleeding).

    a hard rain's a-gonna fall is also quite profound:
    http://bobdylan.com/moderntimes/songs/hardrain.html

    mr. tambourine man was always my favorite song from a lyrical standpoint:
    http://bobdylan.com/moderntimes/songs/tambourine.html
  • gossardstradlingossardstradlin Posts: 324
    Talkin World War III blues is great,

    "Half the people can be part right all the time,
    Some of the people can be all right part of the time,
    But all the people can't be all right all the time.
    I think Abraham Lincolnn said that.
    'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours'
    I said that"

    Blood on the Tracks is full of them

    From Buckets of Rain,

    "I like your smile
    and your fingertips
    Like the way that you move your lips
    I like the cool way you look at me
    Everything about you is bringing me
    misery"

    My signature has one already mentioned...
    "She knows there is no success like failure
    And that failure's no success at all."

    "Don't ya think its sometimes wise not to grow up."

    "Cause life ain't nothing but a good groove
    A good mixed tape to put you in the right mood."
  • Clifwith1fClifwith1f Posts: 143
    Every Grain of Sand

    In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
    When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
    There's a dyin' voice within me reaching out somewhere,
    Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair.

    Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake,
    Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break.
    In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand
    In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.

    Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear,
    Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer
    The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
    To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.

    I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame
    And every time I pass that way I always hear my name.
    Then onward in my journey I come to understand
    That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand.

    I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
    In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry light,
    In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space,
    In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face.

    I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
    Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me.
    I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan
    Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
  • IndianSummerIndianSummer Posts: 854
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Love minus zero/no limit

    My love she speaks like silence,
    Without ideals or violence,
    She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
    Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
    People carry roses,
    Make promises by the hours,
    My love she laughs like the flowers,
    Valentines can't buy her.

    In the dime stores and bus stations,
    People talk of situations,
    Read books, repeat quotations,
    Draw conclusions on the wall.
    Some speak of the future,
    My love she speaks softly,
    She knows there's no success like failure
    And that failure's no success at all.

    The cloak and dagger dangles,
    Madams light the candles.
    In ceremonies of the horsemen,
    Even the pawn must hold a grudge.
    Statues made of match sticks,
    Crumble into one another,
    My love winks, she does not bother,
    She knows too much to argue or to judge.

    The bridge at midnight trembles,
    The country doctor rambles,
    Bankers' nieces seek perfection,
    Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.
    The wind howls like a hammer,
    The night blows cold and rainy,
    My love she's like some raven
    At my window with a broken wing.

    is it possible to get an "interpretation" of this song somewhere on the net. the lyrics are not easy to unravel....
    I have faced it, A life wasted...

    Take my hand, my child of love
    Come step inside my tears
    Swim the magic ocean,
    I've been crying all these years
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    IndianSummer wrote:
    is it possible to get an "interpretation" of this song somewhere on the net. the lyrics are not easy to unravel....

    I don't think there's any mystery in this song. It is what it is. Just read it again until it sinks in.
    In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the song itself answers your own question re: interpretation/rationalization, in that it's basically saying that there are some things which transcend interpretation/rationalization - like true love, for example.

    Edit: Damn, I almost got sucked in then. ;)
  • whulmefwhulmef Posts: 176
    Listen to "It's all over now Baby Blue" and then read Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going where have you been?"
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Also, while I think that Love minus zero/no limit is the most beautiful love song ever, one of my favourite dylan lines ever is this one from mississippi:

    "All my powers of expression
    and thoughts so sublime
    could never do you justice
    in reason or rhyme"

    its ironic really, cos that line is the nicest thing you could ever say.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • gossardstradlingossardstradlin Posts: 324
    transplant wrote:
    Idiot Wind.

    I can't feel you anymore,
    I can't even touch the books you've read
    Every time I crawl past your door,
    I been wishin' I was somebody else instead.

    That song is full of them

    It was gravity which pulled us down
    and destiny which pulled us apart
    You tamed the lion in my cage
    but it wasn't enough to change my heart
    Now everything's a little upside down
    as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped
    What's good is bad what's bad is good
    You'll find out when you reach the top
    You're on the bottom
    "She knows there is no success like failure
    And that failure's no success at all."

    "Don't ya think its sometimes wise not to grow up."

    "Cause life ain't nothing but a good groove
    A good mixed tape to put you in the right mood."
  • KricketKricket Posts: 707
    "You don't need a weather man, to know which way the wind blows"
  • transplanttransplant Posts: 1,088
    gossardstradlin wrote:
    That song is full of them
    no doubt.

    You hurt the ones that I love best
    then cover up the truth with lies
    One day you'll be in the ditch
    Flies Buzzing around your eyes
    Blood on your saddle.

    I'll add to your Buckets of Rain as well

    Little red wagon
    Little red bike
    I ain't no monkey but I know what I like.
    I like the way you love me strong and slow,
    I'm takin' you with me, honey baby,
    When I go.

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  • IndianSummerIndianSummer Posts: 854
    I WISH others would answer here with their favourite dylan songs. i esp wish Hippiemom would have her say here.
    I have faced it, A life wasted...

    Take my hand, my child of love
    Come step inside my tears
    Swim the magic ocean,
    I've been crying all these years
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