... I have so many favourite Dylan songs but I choose this one as my absolute favourite... + I love singing those crazy lyrics...

Dylan has written so many great songs.... what's all this underated stuff about...

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Same here, along with many other lines from Street Legal, a portal to another dimension kind of experience!

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Happily this is on repeat inside my brain

Great example of how the Bard of Hibbing can work in streetwise smartassery even into a song like this one. Dylan’s humor is an overlooked aspect of his songwriting.

is he implying drug use ??

@@lebooger3243 I don't think so. I think it's more like the line from It's Not Dark Yet, "Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain" a song that also mentions scars ("I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal")

@@lebooger3243 He understands everything is a spectrum of outcome, So there is no good without equal bad and vica versa "you find out when you reach the top your at the bottom" So action itself is pointless , or trying to better or improve "not that eager to make a mistake" everything is spectrum of two directions of flow, nothing can stay still so you just need to be aware of you and the other you :)

I could/can never get enough of it. My poor son also knows it by heart ( not necessarily his choice!) 🎶💜🎶

@@burkos777 I wash I was your kid. Lol

Couldn't agree more my friend.

My favorite ! Thank you Bob 🤗🌻 You are truly the best !

Yep! 🤘😎

And they wouldn't know a diamond if they held it in there hand

oh yes..

@@user-mj9fn1uw5x Pride goeth etc: take another listen or two to "Idiot Wind"...

agree

It's incomparable

o yes, still in my mind a landscape being raped, still happening

The key in what you note is the "budding intensity"... this is the key brilliance to Dylan... his songs 'build'...

... by the way, it's "there's a lion in the room" (not "road").….

@@pauledmiston4883 its actually "there's an elephant in the room" but Bob likes to play with the eternal code :) "She turned around to look at me as I was walking away" only sung once on his official release All other versions is "she turned around to look at him as he was walking away" Which then means it could be a small child watching his father leave :) Bob is so much fun

Sorry for your loss. Ke Akua pu me o'e.

Inspirational and beautiful story.

The love of brothers are live forever🙏 He is on your side!

Be grateful you had a close relationship with your sibling. A lot of us have never had it. I had to fire my whole family almost a quarter century ago. Brother a jealous, bitter man, the kind of guy who shits on everything everybody else cares about... sister, a Borderline Personality Disorder case. My wife commented recently "we have never missed them once". Sadly that is precisely the case. This is why I like Dylan so much. You gotta know when to let people go.

@@lesterdiamond6190 its hard... but its true

I agree

It is magnificent and there are more gems on Street Legal but I would love a remix of this more than any of the less than necessary mixes of Beatles album. This is one of the better ones sonically and I'm appreciating how this song builds up like a train coming at you and it refers to the train in the first line.

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Street Legal is my favorite post-sixties Dylan lp. This song is so exceptional.

Superb album!

Definitely

Same here, I must have been 14 or 15, still remember my amazement as I was hearing the intro to Changing of the Guards, this album got me hooked from those first seconds 35 years ago and still has me under its spell today.

I started buying his albums in 1977 when I was 15 also, and then this was the first album released when I was already a fan. I collected them all eventually, but this is still my favorite 40+ years later.

Bob is relating so many scar's in this song.

Many thanks Joseph

Oh My God, thanks for writing these lyrics in print for all to visualize in their heart of Hearts 💕 So Beautiful., as Bob Dylan is LOVE ❤ Amazingness to the nth degree!!

God dam that’s a story in those lyrics awesome 😊

Correct the mistakes .

So great to hear people loving this . Of all his songs I live this the most , the vocals the girls the pain that runs throughout. It’s like desire and blood on the tracks and street legal all lead to this song

Scars not stars

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Sounds like he was saying something he wanted you to hear

God bless both you both 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍❤️

That’s so incredibly touching ❤.

That's awesome. You brought tear(s) to me on that

Stopped me in my tracks 🤗 God bless you both.

There's a new day at dawn, and I've finally arrived If I'm there in the morning, baby, you'll know I've survived I can't believe it, I can't believe I'm alive But without you it doesn't seem right Oh, where are you tonight?

Definitely

"There's a lion in the road, there's a demon escaped" Than you know everything you need to know what he is singing about. The priest and prophet Dylan was never in the business of hiding his true colors.

I'm actually beginning to challenge "Visions of Johanna", "Shelter from the Storm", "Jokerman" & "Not Dark Yet"

I'm actually beginning to think this song challenges many of his great songs including these: "Visions of Johanna", "Shelter from the Storm", "Jokerman" & "Not Dark Yet"

Yes, for me it's there with 'Visions of Johanna', 'Changing of the Guards', 'From a Buick 6', and 'Idiot Wind'.

yep, I've got at least 70 top ten Dylan songs.

It's my fav of his

Out of this world it is, I always thought of it as a portal to another dimension.

Yeah, “Street Legal” never really gets the love it deserves. Great album.

Even the track "New Pony"? That one doesn't do much for me, but I pretty much do love almost all of the album..

It does now

Love it

Yes, absolutely epic. Starts slow and the intensity just builds with the backing gospel singers accenting it perfectly. I'm not up on current artists, but if you know someone recent who does anything like this, please tell me.

@@pluggy86 ah yeah...what's his name? uh, well, maybe not.

I put a like every morning.

Agreed, his best album. Is your love in vain? Senor Long Distance train Changing of the guards Better talk this over Who could have all that on one album but Senor Bob?

..Do not ever allow anyone on this Earth lead you to believe anything at all.

This part of the 70s Triptych: "Blood on the Tracks", "Desire" & "Street Legal". If that was your total career you'd be revered as a music legend. He also has those 7-in-a-row in the 60s. Plus his Gospel Trine. And about 5 brilliant albums subsequent till now with "Rough n Rowdy Ways". And if someone had brought out a career based on the 20 albums l haven't mentioned they'd be better than Bob Seger or Jimmy Buffet and equal to Jim Croce.

To right Mary I agree with you the man is genius 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎸🕶️👍

I love learning this song's lyrics as much as Black Diamond Bay & Idiot Wind...

I believe this is a companion and flip side to Idiot Wind but a better song, same intensity. Idiot Wind was about rage. This is the grief , sorrow and shock underneath rage

Me too ✋ 😊

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there hasn't been anyone, which is kind of sad, but there might come along someone, but I doubt it. It Ain't Me Babe.

I'm 84 and he still has me on the floor.

Absolutely! Also 68.

Young men too

I respect your taste and preference, and I believe the album is vastly underrated, but it is not his greatest album. There are least 5 greater and far more significant and impactful. And some like John Wesley Harding that have more seminal songs. Freewheelin' Bringing it All Back Home Highway 61 Revisited Blonde on Blonde Blood on the Tracks and that's not even dealing with more modern stuff.

Tangled Up In Blue Part 2

You are thanking Bob for selling the rights to his music, which is probably the reason all his songs are now here for free, the new owner maybe decided that giving access would be good overall for profits? My impression was that when Bob was the owner, he did not want to give everything for free. Don't get me wrong, I adore Bob, but that's how it is I think.

There’s a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze Laughter down on Elizabeth Street Bob Dylan got paid in millions and there is laughter down on Elizabeth Street.

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Yes, you sacrifice on your first step. Props to Jack Kerouac and I give as much love to this song, as the rest.

He is probably talking about the Amygdala and its functionality, Mum sacrifices Dad and the babies and disconnects her Amygdala, when she is running for her life What that does to the baby .oh well that's everything Which he finishes with, IF you don't believe there is a price for this delusion we live in, then the scar is Autism

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You are 100 percent correct.

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....say, amen ..... it's Cecil B Demille.., footin the bill for Salvadore D's homage to Dante, on Bleeker St & the Catskills (circa 2075).... e.v.e.r.y. . s.i.n.g.l.e. . .word . of . .e.v.e.r.y . line . . packed !!....... if ya keep waitin for one song that's not better than Everything Everybody has written in the last century....(ask senor about That waitin...) And each of Us (feelin like he was in the closet of our room) he's tellin OUR story.... Shakespeare Was quite kool (like the Zim,.... every line packed with sideway jokes that Everyone in the audience got... or was that fillmoreE..?)...anyway, ya never Do find none even-half-a-less-than-stunnin 'cropper'...for sixty frikken years.... A.l.o.n.e. . .at the very-top of the Giza... unparalleled craftsmanship.... other-worldly movies, written in alchemical hieroglyphs...with Total humility..... when the Swedes called his number, i Was amazed.... not that they Did, but stunned that Even They could know-it ! ...this may sound ridiculous... (To some..ok, Most), it wouldn't be the first time i engendered that response, but Bob Dylan is the Stand-alone pinnacle of Humanity-of-the-20thCentury, Will be studied (assuming We will be less-than-perfect in the Destruction of 3500 years of (so-called) Western Civilization) for c.e.n.t.u.r.i.e.s. . . Period ! ...anyway (sorryfortherant) this is, and always has been, my favorite... and, as the capstone of what i consider "The Trilogy of the Return" (BOTT/DESIRE/StLEGAL), it cannot be approached by Any Other 'Cultural/Dramatic/Philosophical/Spiritual/Scientific/Transcendent' event/product/occurrence...certainly in my 72 short laps, around Olde Sol.... he did radical, psychedelic, Kabbalistic mind surgery on Me, many other humans-i-know, and, actually, on said "Western Civilization', all with the self-effacing mania of The Mule (FoundationTrilogy), the barbed tongue of beelzebub-itself, and the utterly humble servitude of the Mahatma Ghandi.... i can hear/feel the 'worldly', cynical snickering in the peanut gallery..... i Honest-2-god Do Not GIVE-A-FUK !!!...i haven't, since 1963, when i Felt a VW drove by Bayside High, and a foreceps/crowbar reached outta the window, cracked my skull & pried my frontal lobe outta my middleclass innocense.... Never to fit back in . . . praise the lord ! peace, love and aloha, . . fellow apostles ............. Our day, is yet to come...

@@chrisandrus689 Well said.

You are so right. Telling a story in complex poetry. Nobel prize deserved absolutely!

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I agree. But Bob listed it the last one.😅

@@davidsaborit5091 where can I find that?

@@ryansim7818Sorry: I think I made a grammar mistake. I would mean that this song is the last one in the album "street legal". One wonderful song in the last place of the album songs list.

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That may be the finest Dylan-related comment I have ever read, @kenkaplan3654

@@davebagley709 Thank you very much. I comment extensively on most classic Dylan songs, especially official versions but a lot of reactions and have commented a lot on "Tastes Like Music", Dylan appreciation series getting Joe to like Dylan and and "Calico Silver". . You might lie this. One person said he could never make sense of Tombstone Blues until he read my take. I have expanded some things since I wrote it. I think "Geometry of innocent flesh on the bone refers also to the cold ruthless calculation of the war that was often expressed in "math" (body counts). Also "The king of the Philistines his soldiers to save" "King of the Philistines" refers to Johnson and a society devoid of any appreciation of the sacred or culture (a dominant theme of "It's All Right Ma") "Puts jawbones on their tombstones and flatters their graves" Samson used the jawbone of an ass to defeat the Philistines. Here the roles are perverted-inverted as the American soldiers are falsely cast in the role of heroes and the politicians try to flatter those who have been slaughtered as such. "Puts the pied pipers in prison and fattens the slaves" Those in opposition to war go to prison, those literally in bondage to the draft are fattened like cattle "Then sends them out to the jungle" (Guess where that is?) Tombstone Blues -"One of my all time favorite songs. A ferocious assault on society in all its dysfunction and inhumane nature, companion to album title song (Highway 61 Revisited), Desolation Row and Ballad of a Thin Man and particularly the Vietnam war (*Tombstone* Blues-" dead soldiers) Each "Verse" is two stanzas First verse- point counterpoint. The landscape is corrupt filled with the horror at the top (Jack the Ripper-head of chamber of commerce). To try validate their policies they try to revive patriotism (reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse). Belle Star was a famous outlaw of incredible guile who here "hands down her wits" linking the city fathers to outrageous crime Jezebel- was an infamous woman but here is a nun She 'violently knits"- knitting is usually a serene activity A bald wig- wigs can't be bald Jack the Ripper who sits-public servants at the top who are the most horrific killers. Second verse- don't get so literal It's an assault on Puritanical sexual mores Hysterical *bride* not a prostitute, "just been made" had sex perhaps outside convention Medicine man--unconventional healer, quit crying , it's not that big a deal Third verse- assault on religion and the war Biblical references conflate Jesus being twisted for immoral purposes but it points to Johnson-President The deep cruelty goes against all Judeo-Christian values, the contempt by the "Commander in chief" is for everything "the Sun's not yellow, it's chicken", Things are what I say they are fronted by aberrant machismo Fourth verse-all about the war, soldiers, graves, jungle, blowtorch their camps (I expanded on this at the top Fifth verse- things are falling apart "Geometry of innocent flesh on the bone-innocents dying in war, Galileo's math book to get thrown- all laws and reason (represented by Galileo who opposed the church's irrationality) go out the window, Delilah betrayed Samson I I cant help anyone, like Bother Bill, using an American happy go lucky reference -How to Win Friends and Influence People Last verse- once again traditional patriotic-military images The woman represents something Dylan has loathed for years and is front and center in "It's all Right Ma". a society that swallows the garbage of conventional wisdom I wish I could help you from going insane and ease the pain of your useless and pointless knowledge. See Dylan's famous interaction with the Time magazine reporter in "Don't Look Back" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9ScaLtmsrevhJs.html The frenetic pace of the music matches the insanity Dylan is confronting. There is a great similarity here to Yeats' great poem "The Second Coming". "Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." I compare Highway 61 Revisited in song to Picasso's "Guernica". It is a masterpiece At the end of Highway 61Revisited Dylan has burned himself out in this particular mode of expression. He never again would reach this zenith of artistic attack on what he sees as the grotesque nature of American society, one that would commercialize a world war if it could get away with it. "Desolation Row" begins this withdrawal into seeking a sanctuary of observation, a calming down, but by Blonde on Blonde these forces have emotionally defeated Dylan, highlighted by two great, great songs of despair, "Stuck Inside of Mobile" and the incandescent "Visions of Johanna". Dylan was prone to epic songwriting. "Tangled Up In Blue" is also epic but in an entirely different way. Thanks again for your comment

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I dare to second that.

I overlooked this brilliant & intense song - who else could mouth those lyrics?

You may indeed dare [waves scepter]

What do you admire most about Bob

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Sounds like he was a cool person.

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Witnessed that same tour Then the Slow Train tour Epic.

Atlanta's Fox Theater

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