Whats your favorite line form a bob dylan song?

Whats your favorite line from a Bob Dylan song?

Mine is from the song It's alright ma (I'm only bleedin')

"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
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in."

Powerful, right?

 

Mine is not so deep: Lay, Lady, lay. Lay across my big, brass bed.

 

"He understands your orphan with his gun, crying like a fire in the sun"

 

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.

Girls' faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

A self-ordained professor's tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.


Gotta love the entire song... my back pages (my favorite version is the 30th anniversary... awesome neil young and eric clapton solos...)

 

Actually it's "yonder stands your orphan with his gun...."

I'm listening to Van Morrison's cover of it right now actually. Love that song.

 

but there's no one to beat you

no one to defeat you
cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad.
.
don't you know you shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you?
.
I aint lookin to compete with you
beat, or cheat, or mistreat you
analyze you, categorize you,
deny, defy, or crucify you
all I really wanna do
is baby be friends with you.

I was sleepin like a rat when i heard somethin jerkin
there comes Rita lookin just like Tony Perkins
she said would you like to take a shower
Ill show you up to the door
I said oh no no I've seen that movie before
I knew I had to leave but I did not know how
cuz i'd already promised that I'd milk his cows
when she said would you like to take that shower now
I knew I had to say something to strike him very weird
so I yelled I like Fidel Castro and his beard
..........
I was so much older then.... I'm younger than that now...

 

"I thought you'd never say hello," she said
"You look like the silent type."
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century.
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you,
Tangled up in blue.

wonderfull...the entire song...wonderfull...

 

Good one, Ken!

 

John the Baptist Said to Louie the King
Ive got 40 red white and blue shoestrings
And a thousand telephones that wont ring
can you tell me where i can get rid of these things


Since Tangled up in Blue was already taken...

 

Now what do I know,
To talk out of turn?
You might say that I'm young,
You might say I'm unlearned,
But there's one thing I know,
Though I'm younger than you,
That even Jesus would never forgive what you do.

 

How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool’s hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game.

 

hurricane is his best song...i love it.

or this one is good too:

But i would not feel so all alone
everybody must get stoned!!

 

hmmm...dylan just told me to go get stoned. better listen to him. peace

 

"Until the break of day, let me see you make 'em smile...." And I always smile everytime he sings that part....