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Your Favorite Bob Dylan Line. . .

Posted by okokokok • 8/02/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: dylan, Lyrics

. . . She was born in Spring
and I was born too late. . .

www.thehalflifeoflinoleum.blogspot.com

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8/02/08

weblogian

Where is Bob now

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1. 8/02/08
  
  okokokok
  
  Good question. There are 341 Google results for the exact phrase. . ."where is bob now" most seem to refer to crop circles in the image of bob barker. . .
2. 8/02/08
  
  weblogian
  
  okokokok
  If you can't help me or reply to a question you need not.
8/02/08

MadameX

Something in Chimes of Freedom, but I can't pick. I had about eight candidates before I gave up and decided to just pick the whole song.

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1. 8/02/08
  
  okokokok
  
  that was a better choice than mine . . . I've been listening to a dylan marathon today . . .
8/02/08

timethief

I can't pick out a line just now. Everything Dylan every wrote is my choice. He wrote far to many good lyrics for me to be able to select just one line.

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8/02/08

Arashmania

millions of them!!! the one that readily comes to mind: "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"

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1. 8/02/08
  
  okokokok
  
  that's so right (or left) it's the line that christened the weather underground movement.
8/02/08

BarbaraZak

"The times they are a changin" and the sure are!

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8/02/08

ranist22

"The answer my friend is blowin in the wind
The answer is blowin in the wind"!

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8/02/08

gingerbeer25

everybody must get stoned.

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8/02/08

satijournal

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

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8/02/08

globalgirl

Ah, Dylan the prophet...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Gotta Serve Somebody"

But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.

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8/02/08

Arashmania

"I started out on Burgundy and soon hit the harder stuff"

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8/02/08

GrayFoxDown

"That he not busy being born
Is busy dying."

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8/02/08

cooper

No,No, No, It Ain't Me Babe,
it ain't me your looking for babe.

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8/02/08

acousticguitarist

Senor:

Well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled
Was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field.
A gypsy with a broken flag and a flashing ring
Said, "Son, this ain't a dream no more, it's the real thing."

woops too many lines but this song is too cool. Get a listen to Tim Obriens version

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8/02/08

drjay1966

Glad you asked:

top ten Dylan lines:
“He just walked along alone, with his guilt so well concealed, muttered underneath his breath ‘nothing is revealed.’”
“What drives me to you is what drives me insane.”
“I said ‘oh come on now, you know about my debutante. And she said ‘your debutante just knows what you need, but I know what you want.”
“May you always know the truth, and see the light surrounding you.”
“I was hungry, and it was your world.”
“he not busy being born is busy dying”
“Don’t follow leaders but watch the parking meters.”
“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”
“‘Don’t reach out for me,’ she said, ‘can’t you see I’m drowning, too?’”
“I offered up my innocence. I got repaid with scorn.”

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8/02/08

acousticguitarist

Lay Lady Lay:

His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And youre the best thing that hes ever seen

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8/02/08

kat822

ummmm hummmm ummmm none i guess

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8/02/08

drjay1966

I'm also a huge fan of the instrumental "Final Theme" from the Pat Garret and Billy the Kid Soundtrack

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8/02/08

Arashmania

"The Persian drunkard he follows me"
"My love she laughs like the flowers"

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8/02/08

chrisc324

"the pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle"
~Subterranean Homesick Blues

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8/02/08

drjay1966

Another great one (actually at the head of my latest blog post, but that's not a plug) (really, it isn't):
"In fourteen months I've only smiled once, but I didn't do it consciously."

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8/03/08

Theresa111

"People say you're going to have to live off the streets and now you're going to have to get ... used to it."

From his tune: "Like A Rolling Stone."

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8/03/08

weemundo

My fav : Like a rolling stone -> ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS EVER !

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8/03/08

drjay1966

but what's your favorite line from it, weemundo?

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1. 8/03/08
  
  weemundo
  
  Umm its a whole stanza
  
  Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
  They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
  Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
  But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
  You used to be so amused
  At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
  Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
  When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
  You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
  
  How does it feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel ?
8/03/08

SweetViolet

"When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose."

For much of my life, this line touched me.

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8/03/08

Ca1v1n

"There was music in the cafes at night
And revolution in the air" from Tangled Up in Blue

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8/03/08

saraho

from "Masters of War"

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
While the death count gets higher
Then you hide in your mansion
While the young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

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8/03/08

XanthePat

How many roads must man walk down before you call him a man

the opening line from blowing in the wind.

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8/03/08

okokokok

Thanks everyone - I listened to the songs listed today from bottom to top. . . It's been kind of neat. . . I have to select my second favorite . . . line in order to pick the next tune to play . . So I chose - Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

He said his name was Columbus
I just said, "Good luck."

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8/03/08

drjay1966

You need more?
"shedding off one more layer of skin, keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within"
"disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark and make everything from toy guns that spark and flesh-colored christs that glow in the dark--it's easy to see without looking too hard that not much is really sacred"
"I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door"
"one more cup of coffee 'fore I go to the valley below"
"I met one man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred"
"hey hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a song, 'bout a funny old world that's a' coming along, see it's sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn, it looks like it's a dyin' and it's hardly been born"
"one of these days and it won't be long, goin' down to the valley and sing my song, sing it loud, sing it strong, let the echo decide if I was right or wrong."
"ring them bells ye heathen from the city that dreams"
"she don't wanna remind me, she knows this car would go out of control"

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8/03/08

drjay1966

"time passes slowly when you're lost in a dream"
"build me a cabin in Utah, marry me a wife, catch rainbow trout, have a buncha kids who call me pa, that must be what it's all about"
"one thing for sure, there ain't no cure, when you throw it all away"
"you never ask question when God's on your side"
"all the money you made will never buy back your soul"

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8/03/08

danielpyle

"You just kinda wasted my precious time, but don't think twice it's alright."

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1. 8/03/08
  
  okokokok
  
  perfect.
8/03/08

drjay1966

"there are many here among us who think that life is but a joke"
"as everybody knelt to pray, the drifter did escape"
"I think we better talk this over, maybe when we both get sober"

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8/03/08

okokokok

I have to admit that a couple of these I had to look up. For now. . .

Gon' walk down that dirt road, 'til someone lets me ride (dirt road blues)

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8/03/08

boytrotters

All of Highlands, definitely.

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1. 8/03/08
  
  Arashmania
  
  that's a brilliant song, yes.
8/03/08

Arashmania

"The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keeping on
like a bird that flew
tangled up in blue."

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8/03/08

drjay1966

Okay, one more (for now):
"I never could learn to drink that blood and to call it wine."

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1. 8/03/08
  
  Arashmania
  
  where's that from? and i thought i knew them all!
2. 8/03/08
  
  drjay1966
  
  "Tight Connection to My Heart" from the Empire Burlesque album, on which you'll also find "Dark Eyes," with the immortal line:
  "They tell me revenge is sweet, and from where they stand I'm sure it is."
3. 8/03/08
  
  Arashmania
  
  Thanks! i don't know any songs of that album.... I'll have to look into it!
8/04/08

okokokok

I have a certain sadness when these threads play themselves out. This was fun. . . Thanks for everyone who participated - especially to new freinds.
An' here I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice.

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8/04/08

Anniepooh

Wait! Someone actually understood him?

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1. 8/04/08
  
  drjay1966
  
  You tryin' to stir up trouble, Anniepooh?
  
  Actually, that reminds me of another Dylan line (also from the aforementioned and widely maligned Empire Burlesque album):
  "I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble; trouble always comes to pass."
8/04/08

polybore

Tangled up in Blue.

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8/04/08

Arashmania

oh oh wait....i got another one!

"you can't win with a losing hand"

"if the bible is right, the world will explode"

from "things have changed"

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8/04/08

drjay1966

I actually didn't know those...that one's only available on the soundtrack to the Michael Douglas movie, right?

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8/04/08

drjay1966

Though that reminds me of another '90's rarity, "Dignity"
"I've heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men, and there wasn't any difference to me."

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8/04/08

Arashmania

yeah it's off the soundtrack and it won an Oscar ... plus it's one of my favorite!

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8/04/08

Wisco

Oh God said to abraham kill me a son
Abe said man you must be puttin me on
God said no, abe said what
God say you can do what you wanna but
The next time you see me comin you better run
Well abe said where dyou want this killin done
God said out on highway 61
-Highway 61 Revisited

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8/04/08

drjay1966

Y'know, Wisco, I'd never guess your avatar was a Dylan fan...

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8/05/08

kirat92

The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
the answer is blowin in the wind...

kirat92.blogspot.com

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10/14/08

drjay1966

I just had to resurrect this thread as I listen to Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series vol. 8, featuring an absolutely stunning eight minute song about the American Civil War called "'Cross the Green Mountain."

"A letter to mother came today
Gun shot wound to the breast is what it did say
But he'll be better soon, he's in a hospital bed
But he'll never be better, he's already dead."

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10/14/08

kdawg68

From "My Back Pages"

-"in a solider's stance I aim my hand
at the mongrel dogs who teach.
Fearing not I've become my enemy,
in the instance that I preach."

Or

From "Chimes of Freedom"

"...Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An' for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing."

All done rather well later on by the Byrds.

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10/14/08

Dan33185

"I think of myself more as a song and dance man."

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