Then you get to the last verse and he shares the harshest venom with himself . That's what makes it for me. This album isn't Bob screaming "You bitch!" for 45 minutes. He is totally self aware, pulls no punches even when he is the target.
YUP, some say ,"You can only cut a person down with cuss words." haha, Dylan does NOT cuss, he is so eloquent, "I notice at the ceremony, ur corrupt ways have finally made u blind, I can't remember your face anymore, ur mouth has changed, ur eyes don't look into mine." Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy, I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory and all your raging glory! I've been doublecrossed for the very last time, Now I'm finally free! I kiss goodbye to the howling beast, on the borderline that separates you from me! I think our favorite male singer had a narcissist in his life. Sounds like she died and he, walking late at night remembering her in good times and her full of hate with that raging glory, to him she is on the border of being a woman and a howling beast. It is like you have to really go thru some rough times to know what B.Dylan is saying. And then, Along comes, 'To Ramona'
The first time I heard this song, I was 16 and lying on my living room floor watching the Hard Rain special on TV. Awestruck! About 2 verses in, I literally jumped up off the floor and shouted in the empty room, "There is no f*cking way ANYBODY is writing songs this good!!!!" It literally changed my life right then and there. It woke me up TO life. Like many people in the comments below, I immediately got the album and listened to this song over and over and over again.....for months! Years! I've played it in the bars when I did that kinda thing. I listen to it now, decades later, and get tears. Even tears reading the comments here. We have all been fortunate enough to see, hear, and experience this once-in-a-millenium Shakespeare among us, in our lifetimes. And I know I am deeply enriched because of that.
Absolutely. Similar experience. I too was 16 in 1976 listening to the live version on Hard rain, then finding the Blood on the Tracks album....became a Dylan fan as a result of this, then finding the bootleg version.....Even now after all these years never get tired if it . Such an impact on my life
Same but I was an early teen, and for some reason pbs was playing tangled up in blue where he had his face painted white. Imagine my shock - wtf is this?
Wow! Great, passionate comment. I remember feeling that way when I listened to Dylan for the first time at 18, with songs like The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, Only a Pawn in their Game, With God on our Side and Ballad of Hollis Brown. He put into words how I felt about a lot of things that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. It never left me; that feeling of awe and revelation when you finally get a fresh, first time, deep down understanding of things. Bob Dylan has definitely left huge footprints 👣 upon the cultural landscape.
"You'll never know the hurt I've suffered, nor the pain I rise above, and I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love, and it makes me feel so sorry." Christ
They will NEVER know the hurt I've suffered. Goes out to my ex wife and 3 daughters she moved across the country against a court order. The court did nothing.
only Dylan could turn "idiot" into a 4-syllable word . . . but seriously my favorite part of this song is: "The priest wore black on the seventh day And sat stone-faced while the building burned I waited for you on the running boards Near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned Slowly into autumn" That's pure poetry in anybody's book.
Actually he doesn't linger on "slowly" but it SEEMS for all the world like he does, and it feels like we've gone through the whole lengthy transition with him in those few moments. r)@@cdogvideos432
The best poetry is Dylan ,and ,if you've never checked it out The Old Testament ,even in English; some people don't even like or consider poetry ; they can't help it if they're unlucky😊
'You'll never know the hurt I've suffered, nor the pain I rise above, and I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love, and it makes me feel so sorry' Possibly the greatest breakup lyrics ever written, from a master of expression. Just incredible.
I remember my mom played Bob Dylan in car rides when my family would go on road trips and I didn’t like his voice, but whenever this song came on, I’d go quiet and secretly enjoy it. I haven’t heard the song in full in like 15ish years, but a while ago I said to my mom there was one song I thought was beautiful by him and immediately she knew what song it was
Sometimes I think Dylan deliberately went nasal and difficult to make you work a bit and listen more carefully. His mother reportedly said, "I don't know why he sings like that, he's got a perfectly nice voice".
I don't think it's simply anger though, and that's what makes this a masterpiece. The mixed emotion includes grief, frustration and despair. He ends with "we're idiots babe it's a wonder we can even feed ourselves". It's a deliberate choice of words, as Dylan always involves. It's also an appeal to our higher selves along with the grit and anger.
I feel the same way. I also felt that way after hearing Nick Drake’s album _Pink Moon_ for the first time... It’s kind of a random suggestion, but I would really recommend you give it a listen if you haven’t heard it. It’s an absolute masterpiece of an album, even at only 30 minutes long. ruclips.net/p/OLAK5uy_kAPhwaAFkMKG4E5qLosGKUZZWGej3QK98 This song is another incredible one by him as well... ruclips.net/video/BLXbTMyTDcU/видео.html
I been double-crossed now For the very last time and now I'm finally free I kissed goodbye the howling beast On the borderline which separated you from me You'll never know the hurt I suffered Nor the pain I rise above And I'll never know the same about you Your holiness or your kind of love And it makes me feel so sorry... For me, the greatest verse ever written by the greatest songwriter of all time...Pure poetry.
Best break up song ever. Hilarious, cathartic, brilliant. Timeless. Just perfect. I don't know if there's a "best album ever" but if there is then it's this.
Anyone listening to this song today 23 November 2024? Wonderful album and I still have the original vinyl album or LP as we referred to them then. I love Bob Dylan and always have so keep rolling on Bob ❤️🇬🇧
... I still listen. When I had a job in Sydney driving around in traffic all day I used to put this on full tilt and sing along... People thought I was a crazy man but it was the song that stopped me from going crazy... 🎉
In the 90's when I was 24, I played this song for a friend who didn't care for Dylan. After he listened he was like, "Jesus this is the best song I've heard in my life" I just slowly nodded.
"Smoke pouring out of a boxcar door..." There is something so magnificent about that line. And among thousands of magnificent other examples too from Dylan.
This song is absolute perfection. It’s witty, sharp, filled with poison and incredibly beautiful at the same time. Bob’s singing is raw and full of emotion. Than it all ends on a beautiful harmonica solo. One of Bob’s best for sure and my favorite song of his.
It's my favorite of his as well. The song captured my imagination on first hearing it, resonating as a complete work of art then and over time while different lines have resounded for me at various life stages.
this song is probably the best song of all time lyrically. the irony of the narrator talking about himself and the narrator being as egotistical as they are is just so incredible. the way he paints such vivid pictures in verses 2 and 3 is just insane also the actual song itself is just amazing. I always get a rush when the snare joins at “now everythings a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped” the sinister sounding chords and that amazing organ is just something no one else but bobby could do.
This song is filled many great lines. It is pure genius to put them all into one song. “You tamed the lion in my cage, but it just wasn’t enough to change my heart” Brilliant!!
I recall a Buddhist teaching that said when you reflect on the feeling of anger, with regard to it's subject, you realise it is a form of pain. That's how I feel about this song.
I never view this song as underrated. I was in college '04-'09, listening to this song on a regular basis at parties. Everyone in my circle knew this song and played it often. I honestly thought this was one of his biggest hits. But I'm only 38...
You'll never know the hurt I suffered Nor the pain I rise above And I'll never know the same about you Your holiness or your kind of love And it makes me feel so sorry... Boom !
It's so weird how the song is very clear an angry one, yet it still maintains this soothing feeling to it that is consistent throughout the entire album. Blood On the Tracks is so freaking good.
Ive been listening to Dylan since i was 13 . im 65 right now and his music is still so relevant even today. American Poet and Nobel prize winner. 🎉 its about time we love you bob...
This is the song I consulted after losing the woman I loved the most. It was exactly what I wanted to say, but I didn't have the words. Then 4 years later I married her! We just had our ten year anniversary a couple of months ago. Is it weird that Idiot Wind is still a love song in our history? That's my weird life and I wouldn't change it for anything.
Oh boy. Your story is great. Sometimes the relationships that seem messed up really work. I am very glad for you. When the man I loved, circa 1983, told me he was going to marry his other girlfriend-because she seemed safe, and he was afraid I would turn him into a sex addict-we walked down the street singing this at the top of our lungs. However, as I predicted, that marriage was a disaster-he did turn into a sex addict, and she turned into a vicious bitch. I can’t help it if I’m lucky…
Honestly, this is spooky. Did something happen to Bob? Is something going to happen to Bob? There has to be some impetus for this, right? Is it about the upcoming official release of the test pressing for Record Store Day? WHY HAVE THEY GIVEN US THIS GIFT???
Jack RW Nah, it can’t be Record Store Day since they’ve posted so many other songs from other albums... Concerning the wellbeing of His Bobness, I don’t think we have anything to worry about at the moment. They would only do something like this in the case of him passing away, right? I don’t think he would allow all of this to be released just because he got ill and sentimental or something... At least that’s what I’m hoping, that nothing has happened. I’m thankful nonetheless.
My God, I have been following Dylan since 1964 and have seen him 35 times the first time was in cleveland,ohio on november 12, 1965 and met him on July 17,1991. He was by himself and shook hands with me. This song blows away anything out there. It's a masterpiece and never gets old. A powerful song.
Whow, I never met him personaly. But I am a real fan of him since the mid 70' (Blood on the tracks and Desire). Saw his first gig in Belgium in 1984 in Josapathpark in Schaerbeek in Brussels. Never missed a Belgian concert untill the late ninetees (almost yearly).
@@ehoradaclacla7820 sure did meet dylan. He was walking by himself down by lake erie in cleveland, ohio the day of his concert. Looked up and saw him walking by me. I stopped stood still put out my hand and said hi bob. He came up to me and shook my hand. Shakes your hand by just grabbing your hand not hard. I was drunk for a week. Stay healthy.
picked it up again just today, and I never sung so loud with it from my balcony before, and I gues i frightened my neighbours . THAT'S how a relief can appear at times WITHOUT ANY FILTERS
Hard drinking w/ lots of dry goods ,town to town , harbor to harbor, many a chance ,thrown to the wind. Now 70s finally couldn't be happier, a lot of wisdom in Bobs music..it got thru to the place I'm at, content.
Most gangster lyric of all time. He’s so great at this that he can compete with gang style rappers. He disses his ennemies like any rapper would like to dream about.
@@miguelraeder3005: I checked it out. Good job. I always identified with the line: "You'll never know the hurt I suffer or the pain I rise above, and I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love, and it makes me feel so sorry...." (stinging sarcasm in there)
@@miguelraeder3005 for me listening to the entire song lyrics story he's describing the freeness of letting go of a person that engulfed him suffocated him, like a circle, a vacuum, ducking the life out of mind he had to release this person to be free healthy and move on wants or needs nothing to do with that person "can't even read the books you've read" tells it all
"You'll never know the hurt I've suffered, or all the pain I've rised above, and I'll never know the same about you, your holiness, or your kind of love, and it makes me feel so sorry." 😭😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Dylan's diss tracks are nothing short of legendary. "It's a wonder you still know how to breathe" Absolutely fantastic. This and positively 4th street are just so visceral and raw. Venom. It's beautiful. Roll on Lilly, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. I adore this album.
I first heard this when I was seventeen, and thought it was a great song. then i lived a little and 40+ years on it's well beyond great. Every verse, every line, every word drips with venom, loathing, self-loathing and regret. Astonishing piece of work.
This song is perhaps the greatest example of how Dylan is able to transmute personal experience into something of universal significance. It is impossible to do justice to the emotional complexity it contains - anger, bitterness and great sorrow are inextricably intertwined, and there is, in the last verse, more than a hint of reconciliation. The three recorded versions (the original NY one, the BooT one, and the Hard Rain live version) put the emphasis on different emotions, and I have heard a much later live concert which puts the emphasis on reconciliation.
"I can't feel you anymore I can't even touch the books you've read Every time I crawl past your door I been wishin' I was somebody else instead" Wow, are you kidding me? Amazing.
I will always love Bob Dylan....Everytime I hear his songs, I think of my teenage years. God Bless him for all of those precious songs that still mean so much to me. Retired and in my sixties now but between him, Gordon Lightfoot, and John Prine, will never forget.
This song is fucking strong, it's too emotional. The Bob from the 1974 to 1976 might be the my favorite. So strong, so full of feelings. Even his voice was great during these years. It's so fucking amazing that all of a sudden RUclips is uploading his songs 👍
This album conveys the intensity of the relationships i endured decades ago. It's like looking through a photo album and feeling the pain & drama i eventually overcame.
@@abhikganguly I think there is a renewed appetite accompanied by a renewed need for it. There is a way - and if anyone can find it it's Bob Dylan. Get Robbie Robertson, Neil Peart (odd choice), Neil Young, and Paul McCartney on Bass. Superstar it, it's the one thing that people these days do understand... unfortunately? Do it right!
every time I crawl past your door I been wishing I woz somebody else instead perfect breakup quip like the rest of the song every line a full 8 minutes poetry done to perfection
The lyrics to this song are sheer genius. All his songs are genius but this one hits home. You can tell he was riddled with emotion when he wrote it and he and only he could transmit his feelings from mind to fingertips in such a pure fashion. I'm going to hate it when he goes. He's the soundtrack to my whole life this far and till the end
There’s a lone soldier on the cross. Smoke pouring out of a box-car door. You didn’t know it- you didn’t think it could be done. In the final end he won the war after losing every battle. Utter Brilliance.
“You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies / One day you’ll be in the ditch, flies buzzin’ around your eyes / Blood on your saddle”
I think I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, since I was 11 years old, now 63 this as got to be one of the best hard hitting songs ever,then you got the bootleg version so slow and beautiful love the both equally wow what a genius
This song is written as a song should be, from the heart and soul. It marks the song writers depth. He's wonderful soul. Would love to spend a sunny morning on a porch drinking coffee and not saying a word....
One of Dylam's best songs. I can identify with song. After my second divorce, I could see elements of me and her in the song. All the anger and venom I felt, Dylan expresses it better than I ever could.
"I can't help it if I'm lucky". The delivery of this lyric is amazing
That's exactly what I noticed too.
Dropped a bottle of vinegar earlier. It didn't smash.
Guess what I said?!
Lucky Wilbury...
Dylan is ultimately the idiot: couldn't even keep his true name; likewise Sting, Bon(z)o.
O come on, it's hardly stratospheric selfirony!!
Nothing beats a Dylan song when he’s spitting his venom. Absolutely love it .
and he's really the only one that can release vitriol like he does man, don't piss him off!!!
Have you heard the slower, more laid back? It's almost too beautiful for the lyrics. Almost. I love the contrast. Only Dylan can pull it off.
Nothing sums up current UK/US shit politics better.
Then you get to the last verse and he shares the harshest venom with himself .
That's what makes it for me.
This album isn't Bob screaming "You bitch!" for 45 minutes.
He is totally self aware, pulls no punches even when he is the target.
YUP, some say ,"You can only cut a person down with cuss words." haha, Dylan does NOT cuss, he is so eloquent, "I notice at the ceremony, ur corrupt ways have finally made u blind, I can't remember your face anymore, ur mouth has changed, ur eyes don't look into mine."
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy, I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory and all your raging glory!
I've been doublecrossed for the very last time, Now I'm finally free!
I kiss goodbye to the howling beast, on the borderline that separates you from me!
I think our favorite male singer had a narcissist in his life. Sounds like she died and he, walking late at night remembering her in good times and her full of hate with that raging glory, to him she is on the border of being a woman and a howling beast.
It is like you have to really go thru some rough times to know what B.Dylan is saying.
And then, Along comes, 'To Ramona'
The first time I heard this song, I was 16 and lying on my living room floor watching the Hard Rain special on TV. Awestruck! About 2 verses in, I literally jumped up off the floor and shouted in the empty room, "There is no f*cking way ANYBODY is writing songs this good!!!!" It literally changed my life right then and there. It woke me up TO life. Like many people in the comments below, I immediately got the album and listened to this song over and over and over again.....for months! Years! I've played it in the bars when I did that kinda thing. I listen to it now, decades later, and get tears. Even tears reading the comments here. We have all been fortunate enough to see, hear, and experience this once-in-a-millenium Shakespeare among us, in our lifetimes. And I know I am deeply enriched because of that.
A once in a millenium OTHER / second Shakespeare, you mean. If this had such an effect, you've had a musically impoverished life, all genres.
Absolutely. Similar experience. I too was 16 in 1976 listening to the live version on Hard rain, then finding the Blood on the Tracks album....became a Dylan fan as a result of this, then finding the bootleg version.....Even now after all these years never get tired if it . Such an impact on my life
Same but I was an early teen, and for some reason pbs was playing tangled up in blue where he had his face painted white. Imagine my shock - wtf is this?
Wow! Great, passionate comment. I remember feeling that way when I listened to Dylan for the first time at 18, with songs like The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, Only a Pawn in their Game, With God on our Side and Ballad of Hollis Brown.
He put into words how I felt about a lot of things that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. It never left me; that feeling of awe and revelation when you finally get a fresh, first time, deep down understanding of things.
Bob Dylan has definitely left huge footprints 👣 upon the cultural landscape.
@dhss333 No need to be rude. Live and let live!
"You'll never know the hurt I've suffered, nor the pain I rise above, and I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love, and it makes me feel so sorry."
Christ
reminds me of my relationship with my parents if im being real
Undoubtedly the best line in the song I want to say this to her every fucking day she's just so clueless and I can't help but love her.
Rips yer heart clean out
They will NEVER know the hurt I've suffered. Goes out to my ex wife and 3 daughters she moved across the country against a court order. The court did nothing.
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only Dylan could turn "idiot" into a 4-syllable word . . . but seriously my favorite part of this song is:
"The priest wore black on the seventh day
And sat stone-faced while the building burned
I waited for you on the running boards
Near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned
Slowly into autumn"
That's pure poetry in anybody's book.
I fucking love the "slooooooooooowly into autumn" part
Actually he doesn't linger on "slowly" but it SEEMS for all the world like he does, and it feels like we've gone through the whole lengthy transition with him in those few moments. r)@@cdogvideos432
@cdogvideos432 me too! Gives me chills every time
The best poetry is Dylan ,and ,if you've never checked it out The Old Testament ,even in English; some people don't even like or consider poetry ; they can't help it if they're unlucky😊
Idiot wind
Blowing thru the buttons of our coats.
Blowing thru the letters that we wrote.
This song has to be one of the greatest cultural achievements of the last 50 years.
Yes I agree 👍
You are fully right. Such emotion and pain i feel in this song.
To Dylan, this was Tuesday
Totally
Well, if it had been only fifty years ago, I'd have to agree. But we've done gone and got old, I fear.
The anger and his pain drip through the lyrics. The music is so epic that it feels that the break up was so big like the downfall of an empire.
'You'll never know the hurt I've suffered, nor the pain I rise above,
and I'll never know the same about you,
your holiness or your kind of love,
and it makes me feel so sorry'
Possibly the greatest breakup lyrics ever written, from a master of expression. Just incredible.
It's about A.J. Webberman (so called Dylanologist) from the 70's.
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I remember my mom played Bob Dylan in car rides when my family would go on road trips and I didn’t like his voice, but whenever this song came on, I’d go quiet and secretly enjoy it. I haven’t heard the song in full in like 15ish years, but a while ago I said to my mom there was one song I thought was beautiful by him and immediately she knew what song it was
Sometimes I think Dylan deliberately went nasal and difficult to make you work a bit and listen more carefully. His mother reportedly said, "I don't know why he sings like that, he's got a perfectly nice voice".
"It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe" has to be one of the greatest lyrics in any song ever
One of the most sarcastic lyrics...
Dylan invented the diss track.
Better lyrics in Lonesome death of Hattie
It still makes me laugh, even after hearing it 100 times. It's so fucking biting. Amazing song.
Someone comments this on pretty much every video of a Dylan tune, which is a testament to the timelessness of his songs. He is a genius, no doubt
"In the final end, he won the wars
After losing every battle"
Genius. Pure, unadulterated, solitary genius...
Tru dat
Love that line too
I woke up on the roadside daydreamin about the way things sometimes are
It gives me chills to listen to those lines. So profound.
Great line ... agree
Dylan, a film Noir crime novelist ... makes sense.
And he just jumps right in, NO hesitation, love it. His anger with every word, I can almost taste it. Masterpiece, stunning!!!
Hello Dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
@@Bryanadamsmusicinc chill bruh
I don't think it's simply anger though, and that's what makes this a masterpiece. The mixed emotion includes grief, frustration and despair. He ends with "we're idiots babe it's a wonder we can even feed ourselves". It's a deliberate choice of words, as Dylan always involves. It's also an appeal to our higher selves along with the grit and anger.
The tension just makes this track feels so much like a live song. The harmonica blows like DYNAMITE! Oh the power
I am lucky to have heard this masterpiece before going deaf or before dying.
arent we all?
he made this after the love of his life left him. It is his greatest album and he had many!!!
I feel the same way. I also felt that way after hearing Nick Drake’s album _Pink Moon_ for the first time... It’s kind of a random suggestion, but I would really recommend you give it a listen if you haven’t heard it. It’s an absolute masterpiece of an album, even at only 30 minutes long.
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This song is another incredible one by him as well...
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Come again?
so which are you, deaf or dead?
One of Dylan's best songs. Legendary.
aplicable a todas sus canciones!
Genius.
@@paulalancornelius8671so right awesome
exchange love for fame? he left it to be a father. you leave an individual like dylan for money. You get blood on the tracks
Helloo!! I covered this song in my channel and I really hope you like it!! See you! 😊
I been double-crossed now
For the very last time and now I'm finally free
I kissed goodbye the howling beast
On the borderline which separated you from me
You'll never know the hurt I suffered
Nor the pain I rise above
And I'll never know the same about you
Your holiness or your kind of love
And it makes me feel so sorry...
For me, the greatest verse ever written by the greatest songwriter of all time...Pure poetry.
It's one of my favourite Dylan verses as well. Know the lyrics by heart ...
Dylan at hes best, pure magic
I completely agree. I wouldn’t have been able to break up with a boyfriend from 2001 until today without those lyrics.
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There will never be another Bob Dylan ...ever
But we still have this one!! Love.
Simply one of the greatest artists of all time!
Best break up song ever. Hilarious, cathartic, brilliant. Timeless. Just perfect. I don't know if there's a "best album ever" but if there is then it's this.
Wowwww
I always hated this song until recently mercilessly and suddenly ghosted. Freaking idiot.
Definitely Dylan's best album, which definitely makes it one of the best of all time.
@@bordercollie1140 every song on the album could be considered the best on the record, it’s so brilliant
@@zachwachter8214 Can't disagree with you my friend.
Anyone listening to this song today 23 November 2024? Wonderful album and I still have the original vinyl album or LP as we referred to them then. I love Bob Dylan and always have so keep rolling on Bob ❤️🇬🇧
... I still listen. When I had a job in Sydney driving around in traffic all day I used to put this on full tilt and sing along... People thought I was a crazy man but it was the song that stopped me from going crazy... 🎉
@@pauledmiston4883 well done. I’m listening again now. 🇬🇧
Sure, it's a masterpiece 👍
January 3rd 2025 and I'm still listening ❤❤
The lyrics and the way he sings! Sounds like every word is coming with blood, sweat and tears.
Dylan's greatest song from the 70s (my opinion) is finally on RUclips. Thank you!.
"Tangled up in blue" is a contender
@@RavenUnhampered Whole Blood On The Tracks is fucking out of this world.
Helloo!! I covered this song in my channel and I really hope you like it!! See you! 😊
How about "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"?
Blood on the Tracks is my favorite Dylan album.
"Every time I crawl past your door I been wishin' I was somebody else instead" These two verses shoot out all his disappointment.
....cada vez que paso junto a tu puerta deseo ser otra persona de la que soy"
...me arrastro junto a tu puerta "
"I can't even touch the books you read"
This songwriting is pure genius, when Dylan is on, he is untouchable.
The harmonica at the end is so beautiful.
Helloo!! I covered this song in my channel and I really hope you like it!! See you! 😊
That’s his thing especially on this album, harmonica in the outro
In the 90's when I was 24, I played this song for a friend who didn't care for Dylan. After he listened he was like, "Jesus this is the best song I've heard in my life" I just slowly nodded.
"Smoke pouring out of a boxcar door..." There is something so magnificent about that line. And among thousands of magnificent other examples too from Dylan.
It is an image from the beginning of Woody Guthrie's autobiography "Bound For Glory" a magnificent book.
@@Tom-mp4klIt also bounces a reference off of the boxcars that delivered Jewish captives to the death camps.
This song is absolute perfection. It’s witty, sharp, filled with poison and incredibly beautiful at the same time. Bob’s singing is raw and full of emotion. Than it all ends on a beautiful harmonica solo. One of Bob’s best for sure and my favorite song of his.
Full of poison,. but the final verse reverses the whole dynamic, and elevates it into the realm of humanity and the sublime.
Agreed
It's my favorite of his as well. The song captured my imagination on first hearing it, resonating as a complete work of art then and over time while different lines have resounded for me at various life stages.
No one comes close to the master, for love hate and all in-between
It was Stendhal who said we are at our finest moment when we are suffering. Bob Dylan is on fire here and his songwriting was never better.
Yes. His very best songs always seem to come at a time of personal tempest for him.
this song is probably the best song of all time lyrically. the irony of the narrator talking about himself and the narrator being as egotistical as they are is just so incredible. the way he paints such vivid pictures in verses 2 and 3 is just insane also the actual song itself is just amazing. I always get a rush when the snare joins at “now everythings a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped” the sinister sounding chords and that amazing organ is just something no one else but bobby could do.
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crazy and it's not even the best version :)
"Idiot Wind" will long be regarded one of the very best Dylan has ever written hands down. He truly is extraordinary
Agree, 100%. BUT...I'd add the underrated "Brownsville Girl" and "Desolation Row" in the Top 3 Dylan songs of all time.
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
This song is filled many great lines. It is pure genius to put them all into one song. “You tamed the lion in my cage, but it just wasn’t enough to change my heart” Brilliant!!
I recall a Buddhist teaching that said when you reflect on the feeling of anger, with regard to it's subject, you realise it is a form of pain. That's how I feel about this song.
You can feel the raw emotion in every word of this song. Easily one of Dylan’s most personal tunes.
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@@miguelraeder3005 fuck off
Sweeeeeet lady - brings a goddamn tear to my eye every time
If he hadn't played harp, what would the words be?
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This song is like medicine
Would have to of been in the top five best stories to a song ever written. One of Bobs most underrated songs.
I agree.... on both counts
I never view this song as underrated. I was in college '04-'09, listening to this song on a regular basis at parties. Everyone in my circle knew this song and played it often. I honestly thought this was one of his biggest hits. But I'm only 38...
What’s even more amazing is his ability to remember every word and sing them with such feeling.
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"and i know my songs well before i start singing"
Absolutely. My God, what a gifted man. When he dies part of me goes with him
You'll never know the hurt I suffered
Nor the pain I rise above
And I'll never know the same about you
Your holiness or your kind of love
And it makes me feel so sorry...
Boom !
Screen shot of your comment. So powerful
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@@miguelraeder3005 FUCK OFFF
An astonishing song. Never could tire of it. When I first bought blood on the tracks I only listened to this one song. For months.
This album saved me on some dark days.
Gay
aleister fiend Me, too fellow Facebook user.
Same. I always listened to it after my friend betrayed the hell out of me.
@@benobrien5162 yes having a hard time in life determines your sexuality. I'm sure your the poster child of an enlightened being .
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It's so weird how the song is very clear an angry one, yet it still maintains this soothing feeling to it that is consistent throughout the entire album. Blood On the Tracks is so freaking good.
Ive been listening to Dylan since i was 13 . im 65 right now and his music is still so relevant even today. American Poet and Nobel prize winner. 🎉 its about time we love you bob...
"Smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door" Brilliant phrasing.
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This is the song I consulted after losing the woman I loved the most. It was exactly what I wanted to say, but I didn't have the words. Then 4 years later I married her! We just had our ten year anniversary a couple of months ago. Is it weird that Idiot Wind is still a love song in our history? That's my weird life and I wouldn't change it for anything.
Oh boy. Your story is great. Sometimes the relationships that seem messed up really work. I am very glad for you.
When the man I loved, circa 1983, told me he was going to marry his other girlfriend-because she seemed safe, and he was afraid I would turn him into a sex addict-we walked down the street singing this at the top of our lungs.
However, as I predicted, that marriage was a disaster-he did turn into a sex addict, and she turned into a vicious bitch.
I can’t help it if I’m lucky…
Don't do that...... don't give me hope😢 (for real tho, that's beautiful)
@@lisaorlando1224 One day she’ll be in the ditch, flies buzzin’ around her eyes 👀... 🤣
Beautiful
Omg she lured you back into her webz
Finally all of Blood on the Tracks is on RUclips
Honestly, this is spooky. Did something happen to Bob? Is something going to happen to Bob? There has to be some impetus for this, right? Is it about the upcoming official release of the test pressing for Record Store Day? WHY HAVE THEY GIVEN US THIS GIFT???
Jack RW Nah, it can’t be Record Store Day since they’ve posted so many other songs from other albums... Concerning the wellbeing of His Bobness, I don’t think we have anything to worry about at the moment. They would only do something like this in the case of him passing away, right? I don’t think he would allow all of this to be released just because he got ill and sentimental or something... At least that’s what I’m hoping, that nothing has happened. I’m thankful nonetheless.
Jefferson Davis That’s quite likely
Ya all of a sudden , i think we should party or sumthin yay!
Listen to legend since 14 years 53 now
This is life music
One of the greatest song ever written. Poetry.
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This song is about A.J. Webberman (google him) who was a antagonist, self described Dylanologist, who stalked Dylan in the 70's.
@@dennisg.582 This song is about many things, many people, many ideas.
My God, I have been following Dylan since 1964 and have seen him 35 times the first time was in cleveland,ohio on november 12, 1965 and met him on July 17,1991. He was by himself and shook hands with me. This song blows away anything out there. It's a masterpiece and never gets old. A powerful song.
Nossa, você conheceu o Dylan? Uauuu👍
Whow, I never met him personaly. But I am a real fan of him since the mid 70' (Blood on the tracks and Desire). Saw his first gig in Belgium in 1984 in Josapathpark in Schaerbeek in Brussels. Never missed a Belgian concert untill the late ninetees (almost yearly).
@@ehoradaclacla7820 sure did meet dylan. He was walking by himself down by lake erie in cleveland, ohio the day of his concert. Looked up and saw him walking by me. I stopped stood still put out my hand and said hi bob. He came up to me and shook my hand. Shakes your hand by just grabbing your hand not hard. I was drunk for a week. Stay healthy.
picked it up again just today, and I never sung so loud with it from my balcony before, and I gues i frightened my neighbours . THAT'S how a relief can appear at times WITHOUT ANY FILTERS
@@thomasandersen2764 Haha - that's how life is meant to be!!!
Hard drinking w/ lots of dry goods ,town to town , harbor to harbor, many a chance ,thrown to the wind.
Now 70s finally couldn't be happier, a lot of wisdom in Bobs music..it got thru to the place I'm at, content.
The emotion is spine tingling......what a song!!
Amen bruh!!!
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Most gangster lyric of all time. He’s so great at this that he can compete with gang style rappers. He disses his ennemies like any rapper would like to dream about.
What a force of words, it rolls over you like a tsunami--breathless, deeply hurt
This song's searing intensity pulls me in every time I hear it. One of my favorite albums of all time.
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@@miguelraeder3005:
I checked it out. Good job. I always identified with the line:
"You'll never know the hurt I suffer or the pain I rise above, and I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love, and it makes me feel so sorry...." (stinging sarcasm in there)
"Blowing like a circle around my skull"
Goddam. I have no clue what it means, yet I know exactly what it means.
What you just said describes Dylan to perfectly
A circle around my skull = hanging himself... that's what means to me. Desperation
Cyclonic spin of craziness
@@miguelraeder3005 for me listening to the entire song lyrics story he's describing the freeness of letting go of a person that engulfed him suffocated him, like a circle, a vacuum, ducking the life out of mind he had to release this person to be free healthy and move on wants or needs nothing to do with that person "can't even read the books you've read" tells it all
I believe he's talking about the Idiot Wind, blowing around his skull. As in her stupid behaviour taking over his mind.
"You'll never know the hurt I've suffered, or all the pain I've rised above, and I'll never know the same about you, your holiness, or your kind of love, and it makes me feel so sorry."
😭😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
"I can't help it if I'm lucky"
HAHAHAHAHA and Joan has nothing to say about that I'm sure
@@peterkeys1105 Talking about his sudden wealth, if you read the lyrics.
@@richardthelionheart01 pffft. I'll read his lyrics when he wins the fucking Nobel prize.
Did your parents have any children that lived?
Agree ... better to be Lucky More than talented
Definitely up there with the greatest albums of all time. incredibly good.
Dylan's diss tracks are nothing short of legendary. "It's a wonder you still know how to breathe" Absolutely fantastic. This and positively 4th street are just so visceral and raw. Venom. It's beautiful. Roll on Lilly, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. I adore this album.
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From one of his best LPs. Not a bad cut on it, and several absolute jewels.
I first heard this when I was seventeen, and thought it was a great song. then i lived a little and 40+ years on it's well beyond great. Every verse, every line, every word drips with venom, loathing, self-loathing and regret. Astonishing piece of work.
I love how it just jumps into the verse immediately
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This song is perhaps the greatest example of how Dylan is able to transmute personal experience into something of universal significance. It is impossible to do justice to the emotional complexity it contains - anger, bitterness and great sorrow are inextricably intertwined, and there is, in the last verse, more than a hint of reconciliation. The three recorded versions (the original NY one, the BooT one, and the Hard Rain live version) put the emphasis on different emotions, and I have heard a much later live concert which puts the emphasis on reconciliation.
Words delivered like a hammer. Dylan at his absolute best! No other songwriter fires like this
"I can't feel you anymore
I can't even touch the books you've read
Every time I crawl past your door
I been wishin' I was somebody else instead"
Wow, are you kidding me? Amazing.
The first couplet is my favorite.
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I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed, your eyes don't look into mine........ Another GREAT lyric.
I will always love Bob Dylan....Everytime I hear his songs, I think of my teenage years. God Bless him for all of those precious songs that still mean so much to me. Retired and in my sixties now but between him, Gordon Lightfoot, and John Prine, will never forget.
What a fucking masterpiece this album is.
This entire album is so full
This man wrote my life way before I was even born
I know what you mean...
Is this mind controll?
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All just one mind experiencing itself
That's lovely. Yes.
Great song from a great album. The emotion is so raw. A master songwriter with something to say.
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This song is fucking strong, it's too emotional. The Bob from the 1974 to 1976 might be the my favorite. So strong, so full of feelings. Even his voice was great during these years. It's so fucking amazing that all of a sudden RUclips is uploading his songs 👍
Well, I wouldn't say that RUclips is uploading them............ I'd say Dylan Inc. is doing that. haha
@@kevincgrabb well yeah...but still, great success.
Divorce, getting older and his career somewhat dwindling, he had alot on his mind
Yes. King bob
@@kevincgrabb Dylan concedes he lost the battle against the fans...ha ha
This album conveys the intensity of the relationships i endured decades ago. It's like looking through a photo album and feeling the pain & drama i eventually overcame.
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Blood on the Tracks è il più grande album che Dylan abbia fatto negli anni '70.
Many of us would LOVE to hear Bob Dylan speak up against what's going on in the world right now... it would be so appreciated. You've got the power!
Well he would but he's pretty much lost any hope of songs changing the world, he himself confessed that in the 80s with Rolling Stones Mag. :'(
@@abhikganguly I think there is a renewed appetite accompanied by a renewed need for it. There is a way - and if anyone can find it it's Bob Dylan. Get Robbie Robertson, Neil Peart (odd choice), Neil Young, and Paul McCartney on Bass. Superstar it, it's the one thing that people these days do understand... unfortunately? Do it right!
Ooo, and Burton Cummings on the Keys.
He stopped that so long ago, dont hold yer breath lol
Neil Peart retired
every time I crawl past your door I been wishing I woz somebody else instead
perfect breakup quip
like the rest of the song
every line
a full 8 minutes
poetry done to perfection
My favorite Dylan song ever! Thank you, Dad, for introducing me to Bob. I am forever grateful.
❤ same 🙏👌
Amen 🙏 📣🖤
My dad introduced me to Dylan as well, and I too am so grateful!
Now approaching 70 I always thought, "Dylan is to music what Picasso was to painting."
or Shakespeare to plays
Lol, k boomer.
@Harris k boomer.
@@can_of__buttery_sticks9097 'The idiot wind, blowing every time you touch your keyboard'
@@nikunashi3494 okay boomer.
Love hurts and Dylan knows it!!!
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The organ in this song is amazing
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That's Al Kooper for you!
The lyrics to this song are sheer genius. All his songs are genius but this one hits home. You can tell he was riddled with emotion when he wrote it and he and only he could transmit his feelings from mind to fingertips in such a pure fashion. I'm going to hate it when he goes. He's the soundtrack to my whole life this far and till the end
Incredible sentiments. ❤
Best song of all time.
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😋. One of the best.
Damn, don't screw with Dylan, because he has the poetic and musical genius to tear you to shreds !
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No shit huh
Another lyric that Dob just nailed.
I reckon so many know someone who fills these lyrics perfectly!
4:18 I love how he changes his voice like that for the "I can’t remember your face anymore," line, he sounds drained and tired.
There’s a lone soldier on the cross. Smoke pouring out of a box-car door. You didn’t know it- you didn’t think it could be done. In the final end he won the war after losing every battle. Utter Brilliance.
Bob Was A Master Story Teller !!!!
Was?
Nothing compares to these lyrics or the raw emotion in this song.
Hello Dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
This is why I love his work , self explanatory
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My late mother loved the music of Bob Dylan she never got to see him live unfortunately
This song speaks volumes to me....still alive after all the heartbreak
“You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies / One day you’ll be in the ditch, flies buzzin’ around your eyes / Blood on your saddle”
Gotta be the money shot of the song right there lol i was gonna quote it ! Peace bro
im annonymous Ingenious poetry right there, have a good one man!
Also my favourite lyric in the song, mix of sadness, bitterness and humour
Also like "I waited for you on the running boards/Near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned/Slowly into autumn"
This song is eminently quotable. Just so many devastating lines.
I think I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, since I was 11 years old, now 63 this as got to be one of the best hard hitting songs ever,then you got the bootleg version so slow and beautiful love the both equally wow what a genius
Interesting, I love so much of Dylan's works, 'To Ramona' is gr8. I love the
background melody or lower cleft of 'My back pages'
Oh wow, I have never heard the bootleg version. I'm 65, & this is probably my favorite Dylan album. This song is just freaking STUNNING!!!
''Their minds are filled with big ideas, images & distorted facts''
Instead of saying that "she lied to them", he writes this... Bob Dylan is the best!
One of his best, if not best, vocal performances.
He can remember all of these lyrics in concert ??? This guy's got a helluva memory.
Absolutely! He's a genius.
When this song comes on I start loudly singing it in all my out of tune glory!
Thanks Bob!
I FEEL THIS ❤😂🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊
I'm not sure another Dylan song exists that contains the sheer unadulterated lyrical genius in every line as this does. Maybe most of them do I guess.
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Feeling very happy for everyone who will be enjoying all this music for the first time now that it's on RUclips.
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I can't help it if I'm lucky.....GENIUS.
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This song is written as a song should be, from the heart and soul. It marks the song writers depth. He's wonderful soul. Would love to spend a sunny morning on a porch drinking coffee and not saying a word....
Hello Dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
How perfect this song is, my god! And almost 8 minutes. Amazing.
Also the longest song of the day (in '66) was 'like a rolling stone'...hitti 6 minutes
a masterpiece. Incredible song.
as poignant now as it was in the 70's.
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One of Dylam's best songs. I can identify with song. After my second divorce, I could see elements of me and her in the song. All the anger and venom I felt, Dylan expresses it better than I ever could.