Bob Dylan

[Deranged]

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last.
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
Crying like a fire in the sun.
Look out the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.
All your reindeer armies, are all going home.
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor.
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

Ik heb eigenlijk geen idee waarom precies. Maar ik heb het idee dat dit het mooiste stuk poëzie is dat ik ooit heb mogen aanschouwen.

 

[Exceptional Insight]

Blijft fascinerend wat amfetamine met muziek doet (:

En inderdaad, maar dan wel uitgevoerd door hem zelf.

 

[Dopezilla]

Het mooiste stuk moderne poëzie dan, hè.

Maar ja, Dylan is een meester met woorden en muziek.

Olle

 

[Deranged]

Ik moet wel bekennen dat ik de uitvoering van Bryan Ferry toch echt beter vind. Maar de tekst staat als een huis in ieder geval.

 

[Immo]

I'm waiting and diversing
I'm collecting...diversing information...
liberation...
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Manifesto on my window and my fruit...
rotation...admiration...outline my root...
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs

 

[Gemini]

Ik wist dat dit topic er aan zat te komen. Het spande er alleen om of Deranged, ExceptionalInsight of Berbatov hem had geopend. En ach, anders had ik het zelf wel gedaan.

 

[Exceptional Insight]

I'm waiting and diversing
I'm collecting...diversing information...
liberation...
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Manifesto on my window and my fruit...
rotation...admiration...outline my root...
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs

Komt toch niet in de buurt van het soort teksten dat dit literaire genie schreef hoor.

 

[Andrew]

I'm waiting and diversing
I'm collecting...diversing information...
liberation...
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Manifesto on my window and my fruit...
rotation...admiration...outline my root...
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs

Komt toch niet in de buurt van het soort teksten dat dit literaire genie schreef hoor.

+1

 

[Exceptional Insight]

Bijvoorbeeld:

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.

Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.

So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.

As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.

While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.

Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.

You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Do what they do just to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.

While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
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.

But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.

Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.

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.

My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False goals, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?

And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.

<3

(Ik wilde eigenlijk kleine stukjes doen, maar het hele nummer is briljant )

 

[Immo]

I'm waiting and diversing
I'm collecting...diversing information...
liberation...
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Manifesto on my window and my fruit...
rotation...admiration...outline my root...
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs

Komt toch niet in de buurt van het soort teksten dat dit literaire genie schreef hoor.

Maar het is wel een leuk nummertje. :P

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[kapitein-x]

Het aardige van Dylan is dat zelfs zijn matige nummers nog best goed zijn, of in de uitvoering van iemand anders tot nieuwe hoogten stijgen. Bijvoorbeeld bij het nummer ´Lord, protect my child.´ Het is niet echt een tekst waar je steil van achterover slaat, althans niet op papier. Maar als je het dan in de uitvoering, zoals die op de no direction home dvd staat, hoort (door Maria Muldaur), dan denk ik echt ´wtf, weer een klassieker afgeleverd.´ Jammer dat ik die niet op youtube kan vinden.

Deze uitvoering van love sick vind ik ook erg mooi, met de beruchte ´soy bomb.´ De nonchalante reactie van Dylan is erg cool.

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[Oom Klaas]

Ben ik blij dat ik hem nog live heb kunnen aanschouwen,
al was het niet wat ik had verwacht.
Maar het blijft een literaire meester,
en mijn meester.

 

[BillyBilo]

I'm waiting and diversing
I'm collecting...diversing information...
liberation...
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Manifesto on my window and my fruit...
rotation...admiration...outline my root...
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs
Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs

Komt toch niet in de buurt van het soort teksten dat dit literaire genie schreef hoor.

Literair genie zou ik niet zeggen, wel een genie in de combinatie van poëzie en muziek.

 

[acidboy]

Toen ik zag dat BillyBilo ineens iets gepost had in dit subforum (uberhaupt weer eens?) wist ik direct dat het het Bob Dylan topic zou zijn

 

[Daze]

Ik zag hem dit jaar live!
Kon wel janken.

 

[Berbatov]

Dat ik dit topic nog niet op heb gemerkt! Dylan is geweldig, fantastische muzikant maar vooral de beste poëet die ik ken.

 

[Berbatov]

Het mooiste stuk moderne poëzie dan, hè.

Maar ja, Dylan is een meester met woorden en muziek.

Olle

Het mooiste stuk poëzie dus. Al die oude niet-originele troep heeft geen boodschap, het draait alleen om hoe het geschreven is en niet om de inhoud. Pas vanaf de nieuwe zakelijkheid is er pas echt poëzie ontstaan die ik kan waarderen.

 

[Petrovic]

Ik kan het nummer phantom engineer nergens vinden. Stond eerst op youtube, nu niet meer en zit niet in zijn albums.

Wie heeft hem? Of weet waar ik hem kan halen?

 

[Chris Pontius]

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/search/ ... 20engineer

 

[Frank123]

ik ben nu de hele bootleg verzameling aan het luisteren heerlijk . gewoon heerlijk .

 

[Petrovic]

Deze is echt goed.

 

[kapitein-x]

^Heerlijk nummer.

 

[Nathaniel]

Bob Dylan was zijn tijd ver vooruit: http://oonce-oonce.com/

 

[Chris Pontius]

Bob Dylan was zijn tijd ver vooruit: http://oonce-oonce.com/

Ik schrok me helemaal de tering.

 

[taeknic]

ben geen kenner, maar vind nummers als tangled up in blue altijd wel lekker om te horen.

 

[Aalpoepert]

ben geen kenner

Mooie manier om alle aansprakelijkheid van je af te laten vallen

 

[taeknic]

ben geen kenner

Mooie manier om alle aansprakelijkheid van je af te laten vallen

Ja hè,
maar ik moet zeggen, dat ik wel eens subtieler ben geweest.

 

[dfssdfde]

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
How can I explain?
Oh, it's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn

Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze
I can't find my knees"
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel

The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man?"
As she, herself, prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain

 

[Exceptional Insight]

Inderdaad ook één van mijn favorieten.

Al was het alleen maar om dit zinnetje:

We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it