Bob Dylan challenge......

ISN · August 2005

ya know the way Dylan's lyrics are so great......like beat.....rhyming......etc......can anyone write a long peom like 'tangled up in blue' (see sevensins thread)......about something.......something that music could be added to......I'll try, but not right now......my bird is cooking.....;).....and I ain't had enough wine yet.......of my shoes.....tangled up in blue

ISN · August 2005

in the graveyards of new orleans...
you tripped and skinned your shins....
and shouted whoever trips wins
and I knew then we were losers
in the graveyards of new orleans.....

in the graveyards of new orleans
we were high on natural things
on vodka, whisky and jim beam
we cursed and whupped and cried and screamed
in the graveyards of new orleans

in the graveyards of new orleans
mardi gras had bin and gone
and beads were getting very long
and we passed round a fruity bong
in the graveyards of new orleans

in the graveyards of new orleans
I'd met you when you were just thirteen
and dirty face, your soul was clean
and I was just a teenage queen
a vampire, looking for some spleen
in the graveyards of new orleans

you flowered....like a corsage
and your beauty grew with your age
when I saw you with your husband
I grew so mean
in the graveyards of new orleans......

he was driving a harley
and a real hell-chugging chopper bike....
his hair was long and curly
and dark and you looked at him as though you'd never seen
me before,
in the graveyards of new orleans.....

I saw a marble angel and I broke some flower pots
and it jus goes to show that lot's
wife always dies and turns to salt
and really as we left Sodom
why did you look back at the scene
in the graveyards of new orleans?

(inspired by easy rider)

Righteous Jammer · August 2005

Very beautiful... flows like a stream

ISN · August 2005

feels like a dream.....or a dram.....heheheheheh.......thx honey.....:)....I was worried about it.....I might do a better one when I'm not so wasted......but all you lot - give it a go......now Bob Dylan really is a 'master'.......

sevensins · August 2005

if you want to write a dylan song just imagine him singing it...lol

FinsburyParkCarrots · August 2005

I wrote this one when I was fourteen, influenced by Bob:

Actually, here's the first verse only, influenced by Motorpsycho Nitemare and 115th Dream:

Well, on Sunday afternoon I was a -sleepin' on the steps
of an ancient Georgian house that a kleptomaniac kept
I was swiggin' from a bottle of lysergic neat
when a munchkin from the alley came and chopped off both my feet
I wound up in a madhouse, I was screamin' for a nurse
when the doc said "He's a gonner", and went to call a hearse

There's a load more verses, but ya get the idea!

ISN · August 2005

that's jus the kind of thing I wanted to write......but I came up with that crappy peom......I like it - nurse/hearse......post the rest of the verses.....:)

FinsburyParkCarrots · August 2005

ISN wrote:

that's jus the kind of thing I wanted to write......but I came up with that crappy peom......I like it - nurse/hearse......post the rest of the verses.....:)

I need to go up into the loft and dig my early lyrics out out, but I really will. You know, I'm proud of all my teenage Dylan influenced stuff! Dylan's brilliant.

By the way, ISN, I'm not plugging, but did you ever check out meee songs?

http://www.myspace.com/crinnish

pearlzepfan · August 2005

here's one I wrote when I was constantley listening to "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Low Lands" Took me about 15 minutes to write. It's not very good now that I read it. But oh well

I waited for you when you didn't write
But you sent me a tape that was so concise
She had my child when I was just a kid
I asked her questions but kept the truth well hid
She told me that I had to go
We sat and watched the red river flow

The time is right to tell her that I
Heard she was with another guy
I bought you flowers
And built you a tower
And there I stood, feeling so well
As I watched you empire fell

You seem so peacfull and at ease
I hate to think you were just a tease
My hearts been broken, my lips been cracked
I looked for you underneath the tracks
I thought you'd be there with you eyes well lit
But they threw you inside the pit

Sweet lady that I wan so much
You're the one I've been thinking of
Nothing calms me like you touch
All i want is all your love

It hurts me bad to watch you walk
I love your voice everytime you tak
But you told me it's over and I believed it was
When I asked you why, you said, "Just because"
Now I see that you know the truth
Of everything about my youth

You were working as a postal clerk
I met you at your place of birth
We spent the summer in each other's hands
She was a little girl then, I didn't understand
That life can make you, or it can break you
I'll sing a song for you called "Baby Blue"

I'm sure you didn't fully comprehend
The meaning of the letter I had to send
I'll tell you what I know and believe
Listen to me before you leave
I waited for you to give me a kiss
I hate to see it end like this

Sweet lady that I want so much
You're the one I've been thinking of
Nothing calms me like your touch
All I want is all your love

Let's just leave it at goodbye
I don't want to listen to you cry
I know that you are happy now
Can't you see I took my last bow
Please don't make it any worse
Up around the corner comes your hearse

You killed me with a blow to my heart
I wish we never had a start
I told you secrets of my past life
I always wished you'd become my wife
The backyard's full of gypsy queens
And faded memories of what you've never been

The children are grown and have left home
For a life that you will never know
I apologize for everything I've done
And all the prizes that I have won
I'll wait for you on the mountan top
My love for you will never stop

Sweet lady that I want so much
You're the one I've been thinking of
Nothing calms me like you touch
All I want is all your love

ISN · August 2005

thanks.....I like it.....:).....again with the 'hearse'......oh sweet lady.......

lovin kind · August 2005

i go there to find who i am
i see the trees and the honor
the names and the flowers
the tears for feelings i never knew
and still im going down into a fire
still shouting out to everyone my desire
to save can change a word like desire chorus

we leave together or burn forever
as far as i know youve been waiting for 28 years
who would ever know an idea sprouting out of the word
and from where i live i could understand the idea
that i wouldnt ever ask you to follow me
maybe its the dreams filing grievances
and reality steps forward out of the darkest sleep
and becoming the daylight

i found myself in a world of loss
i thought i was dead and paying for what i had done
yet every day even when i hold back the anger
and hold back the tears
theres someone who loves
and sometimes its far away
its always there though

i think life is about appreciating love

ISN · August 2005

By the way, ISN, I'm not plugging, but did you ever check out meee songs?

no I didn't, and I am absolutely shocked.....how could I have overlooked something as wonderful as this.....faith in blame......you sound so gorgeous......I can hear the Irish in you.......really professional......the guitar is a bit aggressive, but that's the way I like it......your voice is phenomenal in faith in blame......I'm skipping through the next one, which isn't really a hit.....but faith in blame is a hit.....(if a little bit long)......I didn't finish Westgate in Grey.....but now I'm onto the third one......Richard, sincerely......you are a brilliant musician......hugs n kisses......Cath......the third one is not as good as the first......skipping it.....moving onto the last one....and, yes, I like the last one.....a really confident voice and musician.....this is a brilliant discovery......hell, I'm happy about this

(I like the last one, but not the second and the third)......

FinsburyParkCarrots · August 2005

Thanks for listening!

ISN · August 2005

the pleasure was all mine......

Traver DiDiminico · August 2005

ok I just started this and it's going to be a blues song (I think), and it's rough. This is verse 1 and the/a refrain. I'm posting it here because in my head I hear it kind of like the Dylan "talkies" you might find on "Freewheelin' Bob Dylan." Anywho here goes:

She said, "But it's Friday night."
And I told her, "It'll be Friday tomorrow."
"Get some sleep. It'll be alright."
And I kept on burning the gas I'd borrowed.

She wants to make the most of her days;
Make sure she's drunk come the Last Call.
Cause money ain't nothing--it's time that pays
And wasted time ain't time at all.

(I said) Ya gotta get living...(Yeah, ya gotta get living)
And that ain't nothing, honey,
But getting and giving.

ISN · August 2005

I especially like the chorus (and I hope it's repeated)......but apart from that, I do like the solidness of it.....it's solid rhyme......not your usual kind.....

Ms. Haiku · August 2005

I used to own books of Bob Dylan's lyrics, but never an album. I guess I have to go buy an album. It's a great reason to try out this new indie record store I found in Arlington, VA. Any suggestions on CD titles?

bkoolsinhiding · August 2005

blond on blonde
desire
highway

.....from way back when..
I am your child, before it is born
testing your patience, needing your love
i am your god tell me what your looking for
I am everywhere why do you look above
i am your friend in times of need
I may not show it but inside i bleed
Everywhere you go, i'm by your side
Everyone you know has secrets they will hide
but all the walls will fall over time
all the walls will fall over time

an angry river grows more confident
with each falling drop of rain
a weak man feels weaker with every ounce of pain
a strong man seems stronger when he's met with the same
he can calm the angry river
that' s swollen from the rain

....it makes no sense..or does it...?

ISN · August 2005

Love and Theft
Bob Dylan Unplugged (3 cd's)

that's one excellent song......:)

pearlzepfan · August 2005

"Love And Theft" (his newest one) is probably the easiest and most enjoyable album he has made. Lots of great musical styles. Great backing band also.

"Desire" is probably his most accessable (spelling?) album.

But his most famous albums are:
"Highway 61 Revisited" (probably his most famous cuz it has the song "Like A Rolling Stone"
"Blonde On Blonde (probably his best lyrical and musical album and usually considered his masterpiece)
"The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" (his second album, completely folk but incredible, includes many famous songs including "Blowin' In The Wind"
"Blood On The Tracks" (his best from the 70's, very sad and emotional, great lyrics about heartbreak)
"Bringing It All Back Home" (The first 8 songs are electric with a full band (first time he has done it on record) and the last 4 songs are folk. Magnificent album. Includes the songs "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Mr. Tambourine Man")

You really can't go wrong with any Bob Dylan albums from the 60's and mid 70's

and if you really get into him I suggest "Another Side Of Bob Dylan." It's his last folk album and it doesn't really have any big famous songs but the whole album is just so hypnotic. It has really great lyrics to. It's his best folk album in my honest opinion, it's also probably his funniest album lyrically)

olderman · August 2005

by the way, The Ballad Of Hollis Brown is a powerful piece.. check out the original.. peace.

crazed and merry,
he lived on the outside of town,
crazed and merry,
he lived on the outside of town,
in a house with nine children,
a foundation crumblin' down.

no one asked him why he laughed,
some asked him how you do,
no one asked him why he laughed,
some asked him how you do,
as he kept on with a toothless smile,
disturbed as it was true.

in the mountains of kentucky,
he walks and sells his shine,
in the mountains of kentucky,
he walks and sells his shine,
and yet he brings home nothin'
to feed his family nine.

he once worked the coal mines deep,
in the mountains of his kin,
he once worked the coal mines deep,
in the mountains of his kin,
now he's spit upon and viled,
by the specter of his sin.

There's nine breezes blowin'
All around the cabin door
There's nine breezes blowin'
All around the cabin door
Nine crack shots ring out
Like the ocean's pounding roar

There's nine people dead
In a south Kentucky home
There's nine people dead
In a south Kentucky home..
Somewhere in South Dakota
There's nine new people born.

Bob Dylan challenge......

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