Bob Dylan
American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota.
The one was Texas medicine. the other was just railroad gin. And, like a fool, I mixed them and it strangled up my mind and now people just get uglier and I have no sense of time.
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow.
Oh, but if I had the stars from the darkest night
And the diamonds from the deepest ocean
I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss
For that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.
Half of the people can be part right all of the time,
Some of the people can be all right part of the time,
But all the people can't be all right all the time.
I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
I said that.
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
Here's your throat back, thanks for the loan.
What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big.
God, I'm glad I'm not me.
The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew...
I once held her in my arms,
She said she would always stay,
But I was cruel, I treated her like a fool,
I threw it all away.
I threw it all away.
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there...
Throw my ticket out the window,
Throw my suitcase out there too,
Throw my troubles out the door, I don't need them anymore,
'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you.
“My clothes are wet, tight on my skin/but not as tight as the corner I painted myself in”.
Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you King.
When you bite off more than you can chew, you pay the penalty, somebody's got to tell the tale, I guess it must be up to me.
And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme...
I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.
The enemy is subtle, how be it we're deceived? When the truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe?
You've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks. With great lawyers you've discussed lepers and crooks.