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Shadows Are Falling And I've Been Here All Day/it's Too Hot To Sleep, Time Is Running Away/feel Like My Soul Has Turned Into Steel/i've Still Got The Scars That The Sun Didn't Heal.

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Shadows Are Falling And

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Shadows Are Falling And I've Been Here All Day/it's Too Hot To Sleep, Time Is Running Away/feel Like My Soul Has Turned Into Steel/i've Still Got The Scars That The Sun Didn't Heal.

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Everything's A Business. Love, Truth, Beauty. Conversation Is A Business. Spirituality Is Not A Business, So It's Going To Go Against The Grain Of People Who Are Trying To Exploit Other People.

A Song Is Like A Dream, And You Try To Make It Come True. They're Like Strange Countries That You Have To Enter.

I Can Picture The Color Of The Song, Or The Shape Of It, Or Who It Is That I'm Trying To Appeal To, In The Song, And What I'm Trying To, Almost, Reinforce My Feelings For. And I Know That Sounds Sort Of Vague And Abstract, But I've Got A Handle On It When I'm Doing It.

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

The Duke [john Wayne] Was A Massive Figure. He Looked Like A Heavy Piece Of Hauled Lumber, And It Didn't Seem Like Any Man Could Stand Shoulder To Shoulder With Him.

It's Like My Whole Life Never Happened, When I See You, It's As If I Never Had A Thought. I Know This Dream, It Might Be Crazy, But It's The Only One I've Got.

If I Had Rubies, Riches, And Crowns, I'd Buy The Whole World And Change Things Around.

They're Selling Postcards Of The Hanging.

Just Because You Like My Stuff Doesn't Mean I Owe You Anything.

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Don't Criticize What You Can't Understand.

My Guard Stood Hard When Abstract Threats, Too Noble To Neglect, Deceived Me Into Thinking, I Had Something To Protect.

I Practice A Faith That's Been Long Abandoned Ain't No Altars On This Long And Lonesome Road

My Love ,she Speaks Like Silence, Without Ideals Or Violence. She Doesn't Have To Say She's Faithful, Yet She's True.

There's No Black And White, Left And Right To Me Anymore; There's Only Up And Down And Down Is Very Close To The Ground. And I'm Trying To Go Up Without Thinking About Anything Trivial Such As Politics. They Have Got Nothing To Do With It. I'm Thinking About The General People And When They Get Hurt.

Black And White

You Got Men Who Can't Hold Peace And Women Who Can't Control Their Tongues. The Rich Seduce The Poor, And The Old Seduce The Young.

They Say That Patriotism Is The Last Refuge To Which A Scoundrel Clings Steal A Little And They Throw You In Jail. Steal A Lot And Then They Make You King.

I Felt Like I Might As Well Have Been Living In Another Part Of The Solar System.

I Was Headed For The Fantastic Lights. No Doubt About It. Could It Be That I Was Being Deceived? Not Likely. I Don't Think I Had Enough Imagination To Be Deceived; Had No False Hope, Either. I'd Come From A Long Ways Off And Had Started From A Long Ways Down. But Now Destiny Was About To Manifest Itself. I Felt Like It Was Looking Right At Me And Nobody Else.

There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Out Of Here,' Said The Joker To The Thief.

Stop All This Weeping, Swallow Your Pride/ You Will Not Die, Its Not Poison -tombstone Blues

On The Cliffs Of Your Wild Cat Charms I'm Riding.

Good And Bad, I Define These Terms, Quite Clear, No Doubt, Somehow.

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.

I Made A Bargain With Him, The Chief In A World We Can't See. (devil)

The Purpose Of Art Is To Stop Time.

In Ceremonies Of The Horsemen, Even The Pawn Must Hold A Grudge.

Peace Will Come With Tranquility And Splendor On The Wheels Of Fire But Will Bring Us No Reward When Her False Idols Fall.

You Have To Look At Every One Of Your Songs And Be Able To Identify With Them In A Meaningful Way. You Can Hardly Sing Your Songs Unless You're In Them. If You Want To Fake It, Go Ahead. Fake It If You Want. But I'm Not That Kind Of Singer.

It's Very Tiring Having Other People Tell You How Much They Dig You If You Yourself Don't Dig You.

And I'll Stand On The Ocean Until I Start Sinking.

The Land Of Milk And Honey, They Say It Is The Land Of Money.

Truth Is Like A Waterslide-only Fun When It's Slippery And Wet.

The Cavalries Charged And The Indians Died, Oh The Country Was Young With God On Its Side.

God Knows There's A Heaven.

Destiny Is A Feeling You Have That You Know Something About Yourself Nobody Else Does. The Picture You Have In Your Own Mind Of What You're About Will Come True. It's A Kind Of A Thing You Kind Of Have To Keep To Your Own Self, Because It's A Fragile Feeling, And You Put It Out There, Then Someone Will Kill It. It's Best To Keep That All Inside.

I Don't Have The Kinds Of Relationships That Are Built On Any Kind Of False Pretense, Not To Say That I Haven't. I've Had Just As Many As Anybody Else, But I Haven't Had Them In A Long Time.

I Just Don't Hear Anyone Else Making The Music I'm Making In My Head, So I'll Have To Do It Myself.

In My Childhood Everything You Heard, You Could Imagine What It Looked Like. Even Singers That I Would Hear On The Radio, I Couldn't See What They Looked Like, So I Imagined What They Looked Like. What They Were Wearing. What Their Movements Were. Gene Vincent? When I First Pictured Him, He Was A Tall, Lanky Blond-haired Guy.

I Realize I Don't Do A Very Good Job In Keeping Up To Date, But I Try To.

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I Saw Ten Thousand Talkers Whose Tongues Were All Broken, I Saw Guns And Sharp Swords In The Hands Of Young Children, And It's A Hard, It's A Hard, It's A Hard, It's A Hard, It's A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall.

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Wiggle 'til You're High, Wiggle 'til You're Higher, Wiggle 'til You Vomit Fire.

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Ain't It Just Like The Night To Play Tricks When You're Tryin' To Be So Quiet?

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Everything Passes, Everything Changes, Just Do What You Think You Should Do.

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Crimson Flames Tied Through My Ears Rollin' High And Mighty Traps Pounced With Fire On Flaming Roads Using Ideas As My Maps "we'll Meet On Edges, Soon," Said I Proud 'neath Heated Brow. Ah, But I Was So Much Older Then, I'm Younger Than That Now. Half-wracked Prejudice Leaped Forth "rip Down All Hate," I Screamed Lies That Life Is Black And White Spoke From My Skull. I Dreamed Romantic Facts Of Musketeers Foundationed Deep, Somehow. Ah, But I Was So Much Older Then, I'm Younger Than That Now.

Steal A Little And They Throw You In Jail Steal A Lot And They Make You King.

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In This Age Of Fiberglass, I'm Searching For A Gem.

The Corporations Have Taken Over. Even In The Recording Studio. Actually, The Corporate Companies Have Taken Over American Life Most Everywhere. Go Coast To Coast And You Will See People Wearing The Same Clothes, Thinking The Same Thoughts, Eating The Same Food. Everything Is Processed.

Every Writer At The New Yorker Is Smarter Than Me.

There Are A Lot Of Places I Like, But I Like New Orleans Better.

She Had Bullets In Her Eyes And They Fired.

We Are Singing Today Of The Wipe-out Gang - The Wipe-out Gang Buys, Owns & Operates The Insanity Factory - If You Do Not Know Where The Insanity Factory Is Located, You Should Hereby Take Two Steps To The Right, Paint Your Teeth & Go To Sleep.

I Don't Usually Purge Myself By Writing Anything About Any Type Of Quote, So-called, Relationships.

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My Father Probably Thought The Capital Of The World Was Wherever He Was At The Time. It Couldn't Possibly Be Anyplace Else. Where He And His Wife Were In Their Own Home, That, For Them, Was The Capital Of The World.

We Have Never Arrived. We Are In A Constant State Of Becoming.

Like The Lion Tears The Flesh Off A Man, So Can A Woman Who Passes Herself Off As A Male.

Yes, And Only If My Own True Love Was Waiting If I Could Hear His Heart Softly Pounding Yes, And Only If He Was Lying By Me Would I Lie In My Bed Once Again.

Once I Went Into Songwriting, I Figured I Had To - I Couldn't Be A Hellfire Rock 'n' Roller. But I Could Write Hellfire Lyrics.

Art Is A Never-ending Dance Of Illusions.

The Tree Of Life Is Growing Where The Spirit Never Dies, And The Bright Light Of Salvation Shines In Dark And Empty Skies.

I Like The Fans, But I Don't Feel An Obligation That I Have To Be An Example To Them, Like Say Maybe A Baseball Player Would, Or A Football Player Or Maybe Some Other Type Of Musicians. I Don't Feel I Have To Really Set An Example That Somebody Else Has To Live Up To.

I Really Don't Like To Hurt Myself. I Have A Good Understanding With All The Women Who Have Been In My Life, Whether I See Them Occasionally Or Not.

Good Understanding

They Kill People Here Who Stand Up For Their Rights The System's Just Too Damned Corrupt It's Always The Same, The Name Of The Game Is Who Do You Know Higher Up

Draft Beer, Not People.

Her Profession's Her Religion, Her Sin Is Lifelessness.

Anybody Can Be Specific And Obvious. That's Always Been The Easy Way. It's Not That It's So Difficult To Be Unspecific And Less Obvious; It's Just That There's Nothing, Absolutely Nothing, To Be Specific And Obvious About.

People Have Different Emotional Levels. Especially When You're Young. Back Then I Guess Most Of My Influences Could Be Thought Of As Eccentric. Mass Media Had No Overwhelming Reach So I Was Drawn To The Traveling Performers Passing Through.

Up North, You Could Find These Radio Stations With No Name On The Dials That Played Pre-rock 'n' Roll Things - Country Blues. We Would Hear Slim Harpo Or Lightnin' Slim And Gospel Groups, The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama. I Was So Far North, I Didn't Even Know Where Alabama Was.

I Been Meek, And Hard Like An Oak, I Seen Pretty People Disappear Like Smoke. Friends Will Arrive, Friends Will Disappear. If You Want Me, Honey Baby, I'll Be Here.

With Your Silhouette When The Sunlight Dims Into Your Eyes Where The Moonlight Swims, And Your Match-book Songs And Your Gypsy Hymns, Who Among Them Would Try To Impress You? -bob Dylan, "sad-eyed Lady Of The Lowlands” (1966)

I'm Just Glad To Be Feeling Better. I Really Thought I'd Be Seeing Elvis Soon.

But I Would Not Feel So All Alone, Everybody Must Get Stoned.

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Sometimes It's Not Enough To Know What Things Mean, Sometimes You Have To Know What Things Don't Mean.

You’re A Cow Give Me Some Milk Or Else Go Home

All That Foreign Oil Controlling American Soil.

I Lost My One True Love. I Started Drinking.

The Rifleman's Stalking The Sick And The Lame, Preacherman Seeks The Same, Who'll Get There First Is Uncertain.

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I've Been Sitting Down Studying The Art Of Love. I Think It Will Fit Me Like A Glove.

Cop Comes Down The Street Crazy As A Loon, He Throws Us In Jail For Carrying Harpoons.

I Think Women Rule The World And That No Man Has Ever Done Anything That A Woman Either Hasn't Allowed Him To Do Or Encouraged Him To Do.

Stay Free Of Petty Jealousies, Live By No Man's Code, And Hold Your Judgment For Yourself, Lest You Wind Up On This Road.

After Becoming Famous Once Again - A 1976 Song, "hurricane," Even Marked A Return To Protest Songwriting - [bob] Dylan Got Addicted To Drugs, Found Jesus, Left Jesus, And Put Out A Lot Of Swill.

People Have A Hard Time Accepting Anything That Overwhelms Them.

The Future For Me Is Already A Thing Of The Past - You Were My First Love And You Will Be My Last

Romance Never Does Go Out Of Fashion. It's Radical. But It's Out Of Step With The Current Media Culture.

Let Me Ask You One Question Is Your Money That Good Will It Buy You Forgiveness Do You Think That It Could I Think You Will Find When Your Death Takes Its Toll All The Money You Made Will Never Buy Back Your Soul

The Truth That I Am Seeking Is In Your Missing File.

Bent Out Of Shape From Society's Pliers, Cares Not To Come Up Any Higher, But Rather Get You Down In The Hole That He's In.

I'm Not The Kind Of Cat That's Going To Cut Off An Ear If I Can't Do Something.

I Always Thought The Best Kind Of Sunglasses Are The Motorcycle Helmets With The Black Plastic Masks On Them. That Way, Nobody Can Recognize The Back Of Your Head Either.

Down The Street The Dogs Are Barking And The Day Is Getting Dark. As The Night Comes In A-falling, The Dogs´ll Lose Their Bark And The Silent Night Will Shatter From The Sounds Inside My Mind, For I´m One To Many Mornings And A Thousand Miles Behind. From The Crossroads Of My Doorstep, My Eyes They Start To Fade, As I Turn My Head Back To The Room Where My Love And I Have Laid.

A Mistake Is To Commit A Misunderstanding.

Making Mistakes

A Record ... Is A Statement, It's Its Own Statement, Its Own Entity, Rather Than Being About Something Else. If I Was A Painter ... I Don't Paint The Chair, I Would Paint Feelings About The Chair.

No Reason To Get Excited,' The Thief, He Kindly Spoke, There Are Many Here Among Us Who Feel That Life Is But A Joke.

It's Sundown On The Union And What's Made In The Usa Sure Was A Good Idea 'til Greed Got In The Way.

You Know, The Streets Are Filled With Vipers Who've Lost All Ray Of Hope You Know, It Ain't Even Safe No More In The Palace Of The Pope

Folk Music Is A Bunch Of Fat People.

All The People We Used To Know, They're An Illusion To Me Now.

In The Meantime [1965-67], [bob] Dylan Was Again Writing Some Of The Best Love Songs In The Genre, Like "visions Of Johanna," "just Like A Woman," And "sad-eyed Lady Of The Lowlands."

What Looks Large From A Distance, Close Up Ain’t Never That Big.

Somebody Had To Be Bob Dylan. I Guess I Was Best Equipped To Do The Job.

If You Try To Be Anyone But Yourself, You Will Fail; If You Are Not True To Your Own Heart, You Will Fail. Then Again, There's No Success Like Failure

When You Cease To Exist, Then Who Will You Blame?

How Many Times Have You Heard Someone Say If I Had His Money I'd Do Things My Way Hmm, But Little They Know Hmm, It's So Hard To Find One Rich Man In Ten With A Satisfied Mind.

I Was So Much Older Then; I'm Younger Than That Now. From The Back Pages

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.

Remember When You're Out There Trying To Heal The Sick, That You Must Always First Forgive Them.

[bob] Dylan Crashed His Motorcycle In 1967, And Almost Died. A Few Years Ago, He Referred To The Experience As A "transfiguration."

Twenty Years Of Schooling And They Put You On The Day Shift - Look Out Out Kid, They Keep It All Hid

Everyone Of Them Words Rang True And Glowed Like Burning Coal, Pouring Off Every Page Like It Was Written In My Soul From Me To You.

Even If You Don't Have All The Things You Want, Be Grateful For The Things You Don't Have That You Don't Want (bob Dylan's Dad)

Don't Get Up Gentlemen. I'm Only Passing Through!

Time Is An Ocean, But It Ends At The Shore.

He Did Ten Years In Attica, Reading Nietzsche And Wilhelm Reich.

Truth Is An Arrow And The Gate Is Narrow That It Passes Through.

All This Talk About Equality. The Only Thing People Really Have In Common Is That They Are All Going To Die.

Loneliness, Tenderness, High Society, Notoriety, You Fight For The Throne And You Travel Alone.

If God Is On Our Side, He'll Stop The Next War.

All Right, I'll Take A Chance. I Will Fall In Love With You. If I'm A Fool You Can Have The Night, You Can Have The Morning Too. Can You Cook And Sew. Make Flowers Grow. Do You Understand My Pain? Are You Willing To Risk It All Or Is Your Love In Vain?

Falling In Love

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I Started Writing Songs After I Heard Hank Williams.

Come You Masters Of War You That Build All The Guns You That Build The Death Planes You That Build The Big Bombs You That Hide Behind Walls You That Hide Behind Desks I Just Want You To Know I Can See Through Your Masks.

Seven Shots Ring Out Like The Ocean's Pounding Roar, There's Seven People Dead On A South Dakota Farm.

Colleges Are Like Old-age Homes, Except For The Fact That More People Die In Colleges.

Whatever People See - Tv In My Mind Forms People's Opinions.

Every Step Of The Way We Walk The Line Your Days Are Numbered, So Are Mine Time Is Pilin' Up, We Struggle And We Scrape We're All Boxed In, Nowhere To Escape

Every Day Your Memory Grows Dimmer - It Doesn't Haunt Me Like It Did Before.

I Wouldn't Even Think Of Playing Music If I Was Born In These Times. I Wouldn't Even Listen To The Radio.

We Never Thought We Could Ever Get Old.

Some People Are Called To Be A Good Sailor. Some People Have A Calling To Be A Good Tiller Of The Land. Some People Are Called To Be A Good Friend. You Have To Be The Best At Whatever You Are Called At. Whatever You Do. You Ought To Be The Best At It – Highly Skilled. It's About Confidence, Not Arrogance. You Have To Know That You're The Best Whether Anybody Else Tells You That Or Not. And That You'll Be Around, In One Way Or Another, Longer Than Anybody Else. Somewhere Inside Of You, You Have To Believe That.

Folk Songs Are Evasive-the Truth About Life, And Life Is More Or Less A Lie, But Then Again That's Exactly The Way We Want It To Be. We Wouldn't Be Comfortable With It Any Other Way. A Folk Song Has Over A Thousand Faces And You Must Meet Them All If You Want To Play This Stuff. A Folk Song Might Vary In Meaning And It Might Not Appear The Same From One Moment To The Next. It Depends On Who's Playing And Who's Listening.

My Songs Are Personal Music, They're Not Communal. I Wouldn't Want People Singing Along With Me. It Would Sound Funny. I'm Not Playing Campfire Meetings. I Don't Remember Anyone Singing Along With Elvis, Carl Perkins Or Little Richard.

There Doesn't Seem To Be Any Tomorrow. Every Time I Wake Up, No Matter In What Position, It's Always Been Today.

I Like America, Just As Everybody Else Does. I Love America, I Gotta Say That. But America Will Be Judged.

I Didn't Come Out Of A Cereal Box.

My Best Songs Were Written Very Quickly. Just About As Much Time As It Takes To Write It Down Is About As Long As It Takes To Write It...in Writing Songs I've Learned As Much From Cezanne As I Have From Woody Guthrie...it's Not Me, It's The Songs. I'm Just The Postman, I Deliver The Songs...i Consider Myself A Poet First And A Musician Second. I Live Like A Poet And I'll Die Like A Poet.

God Got The Power, Man Has Got His Vanity. Man Gotta Choose Before God Can Set Him Free.

Whatever That ["transfiguration" By Bob Dylan] Means, It's True That The Poetic Brilliance Of The Early Career Would Never Really Reappear.

We All Like Motorcycles To Some Degree.

Peace Is The Time It Takes To Reload Your Rifle.

Well, It's Hard To Stumble And Land In Some Muddy Lagoon When It's Nine Below Zero And Three O'clock In The Afternoon.

I Do Know What My Songs Are About.

Sailin' 'round The World In A Dirty Gondola Oh, To Be Back In The Land Of Coca-cola!

Ain't No Use Jiving, Ain't No Use Joking, Everything Is Broken.

Don't Put My Faith In Nobody, Not Even A Scientist.

Everybody's The First Somebody, Y'know.

Trying To Create A Next World War, He Found A Promoter Who Nearly Fell Off The Floor, He Said I Never Engaged In This Kind Of Thing Before, But Yes I Think It Can Be Very Easily Done.

Well, My Daddy, He Didn't Leave Me Much, You Know He Was A Very Simple Man, But What He Did Tell Me Was This, He Did Say, Son, He Said, He Say, You Know It's Possible To Become So Defiled In This World That Your Own Father And Mother Will Abandon You And If That Happens, God Will Always Believe In Your Ability To Mend Your Ways.

If You Don't Have To Write Songs, Why Write Them? I've Got Enough Where I Don't Really Feel The Urge To Write Anything Additional.

I Set My Monkey On The Log, And Ordered Him To Do The Dog. He Wagged His Tail And Shook His Head, And He Went And Did The Cat Instead.

I Consider Myself A Poet First And A Musician Second. I Live Like A Poet And I'll Die Like A Poet.

So I Cut Off My Hair And I Rode Straight Away, To The Wild Unknown Country Where I Could Not Go Wrong.

Don't Wanna Marry Nobody, If They're Already Married.

... We're Living In A Machiavellian World, Whether We Like It Or We Don't.

Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? Use Your Arms And Your Legs, It Won't Ruin You

A Cat's Meow And Cow's Moo, I Can Recite Them All.

Bob Dylan Wasn't A Big Star Early On; It Was The Release Of His Greatest Hits Album In 1967, And The Mainstream Success Of The Stoner Anthem "rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("everybody Must Get Stoned!"), That Really Put Him On The Mainstream Map.

At Times In My Life The Only Place I Have Been Happy Is When I Am On Stage.

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