Bob Dylan - Ballad in Plain D (Official Audio)

[@Blalack77]

I've been listening to this on repeat since my wife left. I've tried hard to keep my dignity and haven't bothered her - she said to let her go if I love her and I definitely love her. And if she doesn't want to be with me, there's nothing I can do. I'm a grown man and try to refrain from crying but I did the night she said we were done and I was listening to this song. I was begging God for help saying I didn't know if I could survive this. I thought she was the "dream lover of my lifetime" - my queen. I even find myself worrying about how the next guy will treat her.

[@michaelmiller2397]

love GOD more.

[@swvamarksman1834]

Keep the faith brother , better days are in store

[@maryoconnor9360]

Wow hang in there..... Bob wrote this song for such a guy like you ! You are doing the right thing cuz you certainly do love her probably more and in a way no one else ever will. Fortunate you are to have found true love.

[@seattlepainter]

I'm sorry that your marriage didn't work out. If you love someone, you have to give them the freedom to choose which path they wish to go down. That's the greatest gift when you love someone.

[@robertcronin6603]

@@michaelmiller2397 go away

[@nickbaldwin1668]

Finally its available, its one of my favourite songs of my favourite Dylan album, so sad, the memories of teenage angst, so bittersweet, i used to sit in silence, near to tears in my bedroom, as the track finished, it was so personal and near the truth to my emotions at the time

[@ferociousgumby]

Yes, no more sneaky Elston Gunn videos! He's all here now. Such treasures. And no more trundling to the CD store to try to find your favorites.

[@Bob_Cats]

Thanks for sharing

[@bolderenglish4658]

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[@georger1122]

Bob Dylan may regret writing this song however I don't . I believe it is a poetic masterpiece. As I listen to the song with the benefit of his descriptions I feel as though I am there in that very situation. Truly moving. It's no wonder why he won the nobel prize.

[@atravelerofbothtimespace4172]

Those who shrugged of his Nobel prize as undeserved bcuz of his artistic medium have never experienced their heart being beautifully broken in half by this incredible example of human expression through " Poetry"& song

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

@@atravelerofbothtimespace4172What does “shrugged of” mean? Philip Roth said he’d didn’t mind Bob Dylan being awarded the Nobel Prize, but he just hoped that the next year Peter, Paul, and Mary would get it.

[@atravelerofbothtimespace4172]

@@jeffryphillipsburns shrugged off ....u know exactly what that means

[@atravelerofbothtimespace4172]

@@jeffryphillipsburns I referred to the minor controversy of Bob being awarded the nobel

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

@@atravelerofbothtimespace4172 Yes, it means absolutely nothing. I don’t think someone who can’t speak and write English ought to be making pronouncements about who deserves the Nobel prize in literature.

[@Rinifi]

I can’t listen to this song without falling into a mood of quiet reflection and self analysis.

[@Bob_Cats]

"I think of her often and hope whoever she's met will be fully aware of how precious she is."❤❤

[@ferociousgumby]

This has got to be the most profound, most bittersweet and memorable breakup song ever written.

[@Bob_Cats]

Yes!

[@elaineeike5363]

A song expressing deep regret and sorrow...

[@deloreswilson1798]

I always wondered about the ladies who've graced his life...which one gave hm that beautiful,talented son.I love Bob Dylan.Everyone I'm sure knows.His talent is ever revealing itself.So many intellectual surprises.😎

[@THEJR-of5tf]

I have been a fan since 1963, Bob has written so much. He has to be the most prolific singer/songwriter in History.

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

If you want to be “prolific”, it helps to be a plagiarist.

[@isaacsweeney626]

woody guthrie is more prolific. almost twice as many songs as bob. i still dont know who is most prolific. Bob could have surpassed if you count all the songs he wrote and never recorded.

[@craigbfolksinger]

Wasn't Guthrie a plagiarism also

[@bobdrew3383]

I first heard this when I was 13 I am now 76, and it still moves me

[@richardthelionheart5594]

@@jeffryphillipsburns troll off - jealous tool

[@StephenVallely-o1b]

In an interview with Victoria Balfour, Suze Rotolo sounded a forgiving note about the song: "People have asked how I felt about those songs that were bitter, like 'Ballad in Plain D', since I inspired some of those too, yet I never felt hurt by them. I understood what he was doing. It was the end of something and we both were hurt and bitter. His art was his outlet, his exorcism. It was healthy. That was the way he wrote out his life; the loving songs, the cynical songs, the political songs, they are all part of the way he saw his world and lived his life, period."

[@rayhammond536]

He has never sounded better than on this album, in my opinion.

[@patriciaormsby2758]

Don't ever regret you wrote and released this song, Bob. It's not trite or vengeful. It's a masterpiece of intensity that brings tears of recognition to some of us who listen to it over and over. In some ways it is one of the strongest songs of the early period. It is specific and personal, but it makes us feel like we too are seen in every cell of our hearts and souls. There are few songs in existence that open up the blossom of tragic first love with this amount of color and heat. . Thanks Dude. Life would be different without this one, and many of the others too.

[@susanmargaretwills6432]

Yeah - & that PHOTO of Dylan with Suze💙💖... WOW!

[@Bob_Cats]

Agreed and perfectly put!

[@terjehansen0101]

If you put in another way, you could just say nothing.

[@seattlepainter]

I understand that this is the one song that Bob Dylan regretted writing. It was based on his failed relationship with Suze Rotolo. While it's not as well known as many of his other songs, it still rings true.

[@jackyvanhal9514]

Beautiful!! One of the greatest poems EVER written.

[@ferociousgumby]

This introduced me to the tender side of Dylan, the vulnerable side, the passionate side, jealous, volatile, possessive, yet profoundly in love with this amazing young woman and not wanting to lose her. A bird's free from the chains of the skyway.

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

If you want to be “prolific”, it helps to be a plagiarist.

[@jasonnstegall]

Jeffery Philips Burns - As the cliché goes: The good ones borrow, the great ones STEAL.

[@michaelmiller2397]

what a list of GREAT SONGS on this album....totally worth listening to...over and over again.

[@bsnf-5]

It's his best album.

[@alohaservant]

youthful insight into his most tender personal emotions and feelings. kudos Bob,

[@juancamacho5746]

I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken In a young summer's youth, I stole her away From her mother and sister, though close did they stay Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day With strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us Of the two sisters, I loved the young With sensitive instincts, she was the creative one The constant scrapegoat, she was easily undone By the jealousy of others around her For her parasite sister, I had no respect Bound by her boredom, her pride to protect Countless visions of the other she'd reflect As a crutch for her scenes and her society Myself, for what I did, I cannot be excused The changes I was going through can't even be used For the lies that I told her in hopes not to lose The could-be dream-lover of my lifetime With unseen consciousness, I possessed in my grip A magnificent mantelpiece, though its heart being chipped Noticing not that I'd already slipped To the sin of love's false security From silhouetted anger to manufactured peace Answers of emptiness, voice vacancies 'Till the tombstones of damage read me no questions but, "Please What's wrong and what's exactly the matter?" And so it did happen like it could have been foreseen The timeless explosion of fantasy's dream At the peak of the night, the king and the queen Tumbled all down into pieces "The tragic figure!" her sister did shout "Leave her alone, god damn you, get out!" And I in my armor, turning about And nailing her in the ruins of her pettiness Beneath a bare light bulb the plaster did pound Her sister and I in a screaming battleground And she in between, the victim of sound Soon shattered as a child to the shadows All is gone, all is gone, admit it, take flight I gagged in contradiction, tears blinding my sight My mind it was mangled, I ran into the night Leaving all of love's ashes behind me The wind knocks my window, the room it is wet The words to say I'm sorry, I haven't found yet I think of her often and hope whoever she's met Will be fully aware of how precious she is 🎵🎶🎵🎶 Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me "How good, how good does it feel to be free?" And I answer them most mysteriously "Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"

[@amcmenemy5647]

Bob's extremely one sided account of the Suze Rotollo affair for which he later rightly apologised.

[@eugenedegeorge5084]

@@amcmenemy5647 I've been a Dylan fan since 1966, but this is the one song I always have a hard time with. Given his stature, he was able to write/ sing this song, while Suze and Carla could only sit and listen passively.Later he did apologize, as you pointed out, to Carla for writing the song , but the damage had been done.

[@georger1122]

@@eugenedegeorge5084 This is a song that Dylan wrote about what happened at the time. It is obvious that he is distraught about what happened. Suze was reported to say that she was not offended. She said that these were the feelings Dylan felt at the time and she understood it. As for her sister, I feel she should have stayed out of her sister's relationship.

[@eugenedegeorge5084]

@@georger1122 like I said I've always admired Dylan, but I had a hard time with this song; then again I think Blood on the Tracks is a great album and that was all about Sara.

[@tonybates7870]

A brilliant lyric, as usual with Dylan. It doesn't seem that one-sided to me - he takes quite a bit of blame. You can almost see these two screaming at each other and the girl in the middle falling to pieces as the song unfolds; imagery being one of Dylan's great talents.

[@zeab47]

One of Bobs great songs, the lyrics amaze me even after all these years, must be the greatest breakup song ever written.I saw an interview with Suze and she held no bitterness for Bob over this song, she said it was just an outpouring of the emotion he felt at the time.

[@Larsenvlogs]

More like a childish dig at an ex lover. Dylan isn't proud of this song it's said

[@bsnf-5]

your comment is childish. This song is not

[@peterniemi3443]

Wow

[@janesturtevant1516]

So raw, timeless in thought and feeling. Bob, may you someday heal from this hurt. Best always to you.

[@martimribeiro7538]

That ending after all this break up story always amazes me. No matter how many years pass

[@dimanchelaurent1945]

Thanks Bob...the tears are coming from my heart...my eyes hasn`t no more water to be spill! what breakup melody!

[@atravelerofbothtimespace4172]

What an emotionally devastating song . I can relate to this songs story in an uncanny type of way What's more devastating is that I'm in no way unique in this regard . I usually drift off into a montage of old memories and regret in my mind Then I wonder about how many others must be destroyed when they listen to it and the song has done it's job

[@shreya4213]

ahh i'm so happy it's on here, i love this song

[@atravelerofbothtimespace4172]

My fave Dylan tune ....wasn't on here for aeons it seems .......

[@reddwing4368]

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[@LookToWindward]

Happy this is finally on YT

[@leighcochran7303]

Here when I needed it just after seeing A Complete Unknown. Soooooo sad. Young love. 😢

[@3277373]

Thank you, I've been searching for this song.

[@lewashby8662]

Dylan regrets writing this song but this is him at his most vulnerable and mistaken. It's a great song and an epic piece of musical history.

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

I regret it too.

[@bobdrew3383]

Its a fantastic song to sing and play,if you get in the groove its heartbreaking

[@shirleyashanti3031]

When I heard this song on my album back in those days, I was saddened by the heartbreak he must have felt but relieved he wrote it as the only other option would be suicide. My feelings of this lament of torment and despair then and now. The harmonica is the finest he has ever done, IMHO. I've loved his music for 60+ years now. No one has pulled the magic from the air we breathed then as eloquently as he has. Truly mystical. I'm forever grateful. ❤❤

[@bigbictors2804]

we human beings , aren't we wonderful .... love all, Big, love it

[@mistery-ed7900]

Finally this is readily available! This is about my favorite song by Dylan.

[@tvviewer4500]

Allegedly the only song bob dylan regrets recording.

[@0otee]

@@tvviewer4500 What a remark and Your only one to chose placing here! No other thought on hearing Dylan …

[@tvviewer4500]

@@0otee I don't understand what you mean but here: Dylan, when asked in 1985 if he had any regrets about "Ballad In Plain D", replied: "Oh yeah, that one! I look back and say 'I must have been a real schmuck to write that.' I look back at that particular one and say, of all the songs I've written, maybe I could have left that alone."

[@ferociousgumby]

@@tvviewer4500 That is because he was truly sorry he had hurt Suze's and her sister's feelings. But he does take responsibility and says his actions can't be excused, and that he told her lies. Where do you find honesty like that today, when everything is everyone else's fault?

[@michaelmiller2397]

it's my favorite Dylan song too, today. or this morning...by afternoon another will be, it changes pretty rapidly.

[@karenrobinson735]

For Suze, innocent love! I hope he loved her still to the end of her life.

[@neilbhatt6284]

Lyrics: I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken In a young summer's youth, I stole her away From her mother and sister, though close did they stay Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day With strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us Of the two sisters, I loved the young With sensitive instincts, she was the creative one The constant scrapegoat, she was easily undone By the jealousy of others around her For her parasite sister, I had no respect Bound by her boredom, her pride to protect Countless visions of the other she'd reflect As a crutch for her scenes and her society Myself, for what I did, I cannot be excused The changes I was going through can't even be used For the lies that I told her in hopes not to lose The could-be dream-lover of my lifetime With unseen consciousness, I possessed in my grip A magnificent mantelpiece, though its heart being chipped Noticing not that I'd already slipped To the sin of love's false security From silhouetted anger to manufactured peace Answers of emptiness, voice vacancies 'Till the tombstones of damage read me no questions but, "Please What's wrong and what's exactly the matter?" And so it did happen like it could have been foreseen The timeless explosion of fantasy's dream At the peak of the night, the king and the queen Tumbled all down into pieces "The tragic figure!" her sister did shout "Leave her alone, god damn you, get out!" And I in my armor, turning about And nailing her in the ruins of her pettiness Beneath a bare light bulb the plaster did pound Her sister and I in a screaming battleground And she in between, the victim of sound Soon shattered as a child to the shadows All is gone, all is gone, admit it, take flight I gagged in contradiction, tears blinding my sight My mind it was mangled, I ran into the night Leaving all of love's ashes behind me The wind knocks my window, the room it is wet The words to say I'm sorry, I haven't found yet I think of her often and hope whoever she's met Will be fully aware of how precious she is Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me "How good, how good does it feel to be free?" And I answer them most mysteriously "Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"

[@stude1953]

BEST Dylan song he ever wrote! Suze got out when she couldn't take it anymore! R I P Suze

[@SafetyMentalst]

Happy 77th Birthday Bob Dylan .

[@shirleyashanti3031]

He was born in 1941.

[@dedhippi]

my favorite line: "with unseen consciousness I possessed in my grip... a magnificent mantlepiece though its heart being chipped... noticing not that i already slipped..." ya'll know the rest. this might be my favorite line on the whole damn album.

[@bsnf-5]

Yeah but then again, every single line from "My Back Pages" is quotable and perfect.

[@LolamaeJarvis]

Certainly not Dylan's finest effort, but definately worth hearing.

[@maggiebryan2355]

Wrote in heartbreak

[@michaelbolding9877]

It keeps me alive

[@bsnf-5]

Good song, iconic lines

[@sandrawadsworth5173]

Beautiful but so very sad😟❤️

[@jiteshjalan4812]

Ah, you make me dream and tear it ever so beautifully.

[@BarneyCortez]

Some people felt this song was callous. But it’s beautiful and honest

[@roldo23]

I hadn't realized it 'til (just) now but this song uses, very loosely, the melody of the Scot's ballad "I Loved A Lass". Richard Farina used the same tune for his "Birmingham Sunday".

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

Wikipedia points out that Zimmerman’s last verse very clearly and obviously imitates (lyrically) the penultimate (second-to-last) verse in “I Once Loved a Lass”. As Zimmerman’s appropriations go, though, this one strikes me as a fairly mild case.

[@HenryHepburn-zr3ev]

His harp is petfect.

[@joemarshall4226]

Bob said this might be the one song he regretted recording. Too personal, not fair, maybe a little mean spirited toward the sister. But I love the raw honesty of it. A tip of the hat to Liam Clancy, who Bob Called the best ballad singer he ever heard. Liam inspired Bob to write and sing a song like this.

[@bsnf-5]

Never heard of Liam Clancy. Thank you for this useful information! Will do check him out

[@knockedoutloaded279]

Beautiful song..

[@michaelbolding9877]

I Love all his songs, it's keep me going

[@ahyaok100]

Young Dylan seeing two women and one getting an illegal abortion at he end of their relationship and yet found blame with outside forces. The ambivalence, defensiveness expressed brilliantly. Aren't we all like him?

[@anitatoledo481]

Es muy linda canción a mi me gusta el estilo 😊❤!!!!!!!.....

[@iraschwartz3960]

When my 16 year old girlfriend dumped me in the mid 1960's, I listened to this song day and night.

[@TheRaggedroad]

Are birds free from the chains of the skyway? Hit me at 14 and at 67 it still describes life. My Dad used to say: "It's what we have."

[@bsnf-5]

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

[@Ftc.6]

Better album than Times are a Changing. Fite me.

[@RMoore-zt7zs]

Here's Bob awakening to and admitting the fact that in the end, all of us including himself, are just "perfectly human, human beings"...

[@friscochirinos]

Yeah, people, that song ! Cut the wind as a ancient katana justiciera

[@JorgeLMarquezsM]

Total hermosura triste y brutal

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

Notice that Zimmerman at one point says “scrapegoat [sic]”. He means “scapegoat”.

[@christopherpike8552]

That's what you get from the song?

[@aisforapple2494]

Or does he? 🤔

[@ferociousgumby]

That's an obvious "Dylan-ism", playing with us a little bit. OF COURSE he knows "scapegoat" - he just gives a spin to it like he always does.

[@SuperC888]

This song made me weep for the loss of young true love. Dylan & Suze really loved each other but his sudden fame and Joan got in the way. Suze went to Europe for 6 months and Dylan at age 20 couldn’t remain faithful that long so he cheated on Suze w Joan. He behaved poorly. He was genuinely sorry but Suze couldn’t trust him anymore. 😢

[@marakaretsos5204]

🌲🎸🎼🎹❤️

[@jasonnstegall]

BTW, this entire album was a warning…that Bob’s times, they were a’ changin’…

[@Goudenogen]

What if this was the song about Joan Baez? I read in a bio of all of them of the time they all sat at a table and BD insulted JB. Mimi, sister of Joan, immediately got up and flew to BD pulling his head back by his hair at the nape of his neck yelling loud, “DON’T YOU EVER TALK THAT WAY TO MY SISTER AGAIN!” PS, how much they have all given us.

[@windswept9]

It was about Suze Rotolo and her sister Carla

[@nickbaldwin1668]

Goudenogen, you’re wrong there, it was suzi rotolo this masterpiece was written about

[@fredkrissman6527]

From Wiki: "[Suze Rotolo] and Dylan broke up in 1964, in circumstances which Dylan described in his "Ballad in Plain D". Twenty years later he apologized for the song, saying: "I must have been a real schmuck to write that. I look back at that particular one and say, of all the songs I've written, maybe I could have left that alone."" While the tune seems heartfelt, I get why he'd eventually apologize for this!

[@ferociousgumby]

@m. dinart He does some of his finest harmonica work in this one. He is a genius harmonica player, often does not get enough credit for it. Incredibly expressive, rhythmic, bluesy and tender or fierce and aggressive. A frieght train or a moaning heart.

[@SeanDaRyan]

He made her get an abortion too

[@fredkrissman6527]

So common in the 60s&70s,@@SeanDaRyan... Too many of us dudes didn't even begin to deal our own responsibilities, expecting the lady to deal with it.

[@jasonnstegall]

…and the men of the world taught the women of same world that lesson so well, it’s all tipped to the other side of the boat, and men aren’t even (socially and politically more than literally speaking here) allowed to ask about it - the woman takes beyond full responsibility for her health now…at any and all costs.

[@bsnf-5]

Sometimes literally, too

[@ferociousgumby]

And I always took the last line to be, "A bird's free from the chains of the skyway", NOT "are birds free?" Would work either way, I suppose.

[@helenbostock2350]

Your words still kill me

[@jez2466]

is it a KZbin issue? I have tried to listen three times and each time it cuts off around 30 seconds in

[@CraigStCyrPlus]

I used to be another person. I used to be a prisoner. I studied my chains while this song played in the courtyard.

[@jaymata1218]

Sounds like dating in your early 20s... but dang man. Sometimes we meet the right people at the wrong time.

[@marakaretsos5204]

🎼⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@helenbostock2350]

I serious I heard a long time ago. Really don't know how told me. The crows got special im formation when they flew down and brought back information to man. They flew down into the mouth of hell. Lakes of fire. I think it's in the book

[@Timur_aka_Tamerlane]

Why did Bob regret writing this one? I think its actually pretty good.

[@FirstLadyDonald]

Its pretty bitter and venomous toward the family . He referred to himself as a schmuck for writing it and said "I wish I'd left that one alone" . Its a work of art but there's a lot of pain and anger in the lyrics

[@briandundas7173]

It is meaner than mean. I love it but it is pure vitriol. A place for that but, Geez...

[@trinaneubauer-ms1ie]

But..what key is it in? Interesting tune.

[@trinaneubauer-ms1ie]

😊

[@rolandmiller8036]

Yup

[@akilhossain5779]

I can feel his pain in these song for suze Rottolo.6:45 tears comes out from my soul

[@rossriver75yukon27]

It’s too bad that Dylan regretted such a great song.

[@zamfirpanflute4639]

I get the feeling Bob was sorry for writing this song because it gave too much of himself. He doesn't strike me as the type who is worried about dragging others. He grew more impish over time as he matured and this song's truth (or how he chose to see it as true) stands out like a sore thumb to him because he had real feelings that he didn't hone and shape. He figured out how to write about an ex in a more guarded and classy way in "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" a couple years later. Crazy to think that "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Positively 4th Street" (and a stunning catalog of songs that thousands of artists would kill for) came out between the two but he had a lot of bitterness to get out and those songs weren't about exes.

[@bsnf-5]

he also had a serious motorbike accident.

[@kimwallace5437]

Please don’t forget me Mr Bob

[@Bryanadamsmusicinc]

Hello Dear, it’s nice meeting you on here

[@TA-tg1cf]

"A bird is free from the chains of a skyway." The last line of the song, and the deepest??? A bird free from the sky, is in a cage or is dead...

[@keithjackson5128]

its a very immature approach, Bob's regretted writing and recording it, but I played it to death when I was dumped by my first G/F ...we were 15 , you know how it is at that age

[@helenbostock2350]

No one but it really ok. Wishing you all the very best

[@joelee5875]

Even Bob Dylan didn't like this song.

[@davideveson1049]

About a blazing row with suzie rotolos sister!

[@catherinecarter8987]

Why do inlaws/outlaws,.... family members interfere so much in young couples lives? If these people genuinely love their sons/daughters, they will allow them to LIVE, breathe, make their own mistakes, get hurt, recover, try again, learn, experience, grow and hopefully settle. This is the greatest love that family can give, and if needed and it fails, or ends in whatever other way it may end naturally, THEN, be present, available, a buffer, a wing; and respectfully help the one you love through their own grief, their healing process, their resurrection.

[@johnwilliams2479]

What sort of after war that no just before this video

[@d_walsh]

Suze became bobs boyfriend in 61. at age 17. bob and Suze moved into apt together in '62, freewheelin cover in Feb '63 , Suze gets pregnant that summer of '63, gets abortion. moves out to her sister apt. bob and Suze breakup in 1964. Suze was 20. she wanted a art career. bob was a stray dog. he had Joan baez

[@andys149]

Bob claims he was a schmuck for having written this one, personally I think it takes tremendous strength to lay everything so nakedly bare like this. I wish he was guilt-free over this. He is entitled to his perspective & assigning of blame on his failed relationship, just as any woman would be without being asked to feel guilt.

[@quaid667]

Maybe this song is a painful reminder of the way he handled that situation which lead to the breakup and if he had wrote this song and decided to not release it, that's one thing. But it's out there and he wishes it wasn't. Which is fair enough.

[@chadpittman3025]

It misses its mark

[@maltesetony9030]

"Scrapegoat" aside, this is pretty damn good . . .

[@helenbostock2350]

I not totally blameless. Look how is really. I just got caught up in your song then I was younger.

[@bau6078]

her skin was brown Othello Shakespeare England must beatiful deepetst bob

[@ferociousgumby]

Bronze.

[@bau6078]

Sorry

[@SuperSparkyMark1]

Why does Bob regret writing this song?

[@kenjohan]

He didn't particulary like Carla!

[@javierramos1249]

Dear Lord, Who Has Sealed All Souls Of Whom He Has Chose, and Tears Away The Thorns That Struck All The Ashes Of The Rose, Who Will Raise Them Up Again Anew On The Next Pentacost Day, He Shall Wipe All Your Tears, and Renew What Went Astray. Fear is of enemy, just pull it out, it's just a misgotten spirit; rebuke it with a shout! With The Word Of God, Who Will Speak To Your Name, There's No Longer The Fallen in All That Became Shame. You're Going, Going, and You'll Be Gone, but Not To Just Emptiness Of Sky's Without Song. You're Going To A Heaven Where Precious Angels Sing Praise. It's Always Been God's Plan For You Even During Your Days Of Haze. Renewing Your Faith, Singing His Glory, Baptism In His Spirit Shall Be The End Of Your Story. There's No Life in The Elements That They Told You Of Through Their Lies, But Your Soul is Still Alive; They Never Took It and They Won't be going with You to God's Paradise. They certainly tried and may continue to drag it out of you, but they'll never have it because God's chased you down, opened the door to your heart, and has always been following you. You have to want The Lord bad enough, and now knowing what it is you must do, allow His Peace To Come Upon You and You will always have it with you. Amen and Amen it is done. Love Victoria

[@helenbostock2350]

I soft not hard.

[@helenbostock2350]

That's fine we all give reason. We can all grow. We all learn even sisters and brothers. You empty. You need I don't trust you or they how you speak of.

[@janberry8031]

he still needs to self edit 'cos he's not a man of "few" words ( wordy guthrie yeah?

[@helenbostock2350]

I clever not stupid. I bright not dull. I great but not nieve. I could play theirs games but I choose not to. I say what I think. Out loud if it's right or out of order. It makes other listen. I try and do what I think is right at the moment our time. I comment on other things because thier important to me first. Libra like justice to be done not just talk about. I was check you out in my mind. I was talking to myself a odd thing to do I admit. It took me ages to find out how the government operates and its took me long to accept these truths be self employed and true. Its starting sinks in my brain. The same recurring parents of others behaviour towards me and your song sound loader to me once again. Thank

[@helenbostock2350]

I understand only because I been thier until I learnt how others people live really work. Bird have a bird eye view please look and try and pay attention to what you can see. Oh well slowly if you can make them smile it's ok. I not been thier but I know our have. I understand constant pressure and pain of be able to leave No I have never met you but I can feel pain and if I can do that I can all most feel other people discomfort in different situations and places I don't really go.

[@knockedoutloaded279]

Simon and Garfunkel could do this..

[@davideveson1049]

They couldn't.. only dylan can.

[@jnagarya519]

Simon's lyrics are embarrassingly imitative and shallow.

[@helenbostock2350]

National left nature is there. Even if they lol I still here

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

As a sort of poem, this is childishly clumsy and pretentious. As a narrative, it’s vague and confusing. Instrumentally, it’s painfully amateurish. Musically, it’s tedious. I suppose the erratic tempo is to some extent an attempt at rubato, but the ultimate effect is just irksome. Altogether the thing is an embarrassment.

[@bsnf-5]

yeah, you nust be fun at parties

[@ferociousgumby]

We LIVED for this when I was a teenager. My older brother Arthur would come home from university, we'd smoke a little dope and put on Dylan. This was a favorite, because he is more emotionally naked than in any other song. My brother Arthur developed schizophrenia in his early 20s, lived on the streets of Toronto, and died in a fire in 1980. This song brings him back. I cannot say how precious that is.

[@Bob_Cats]

​@@ferociousgumby Thank you for sharing

[@kelechi_77]

This is the only Dylan song Dylan himself hates, so you might be onto something, but I still think it's a very interesting look into the mind of Dylan

[@davidmurphy7392]

The reminder to treat women gentle dispte any pains I felt ⛓️🌧✨️✡️

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

As a sort of poem, this is childishly clumsy and pretentious. As a narrative, it’s vague and confusing. Instrumentally, it’s painfully amateurish. Musically, it’s tedious. I suppose the erratic tempo is to some extent an attempt at rubato, but the ultimate effect is just irksome. Altogether the thing is an embarrassment.

[@ferociousgumby]

We heard you the first time, Jeffy baby, and you're entitled to your opinion, but saying it twice doesn't make it any more true.

[@bsnf-5]

​@@ferociousgumbyword!