Bob Dylan - It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (Official Audio)

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  • “It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" by Bob Dylan
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    Lyrics:
    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
    ...
    #BobDylan #Folk #SingerSongwriter
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Комментарии • 2,4 тыс.

  • @Funktaro5
    @Funktaro5 4 года назад +549

    "Money doesn't talk, it swears." What a fucking line.

    • @wingone4438
      @wingone4438 3 года назад +11

      Ain't that the truth!
      And all these years later it seems those kinda times, still ain't changin much! Some haven't figured out yet that it's children that pay the price of parents and other adults choices!
      Ya know what a good many adults are in other words? A- Dolts.
      Your so very important post reminds us to think from motivation and intent. To Always remember to see through the heart and minds eyes of a child and to be kind. And for that, I Thank- You and of course, Mr.D too!

    • @ajaypalsinghbhatti8901
      @ajaypalsinghbhatti8901 3 года назад +9

      Ask a man who is dying he just want a day more to live not money or women.

    • @dixonpinfold2582
      @dixonpinfold2582 3 года назад +12

      I loved it when I heard it at 16, not so much now. The ones I like are the last ones. I don't think he just concludes with them, I think they're the conclusions he comes to:
      "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."
      It's hard to do better than that.

    • @midnightok3er
      @midnightok3er 2 года назад +1

      100

    • @thegreenbird795
      @thegreenbird795 2 года назад +2

      fucking a!

  • @Rings-of-Saturn2
    @Rings-of-Saturn2 7 месяцев назад +13

    One of the most accurate and scathing attacks on the sacred cow of American values ever written. The man is a prophet.

  • @vickyscrivener5708
    @vickyscrivener5708 3 месяца назад +38

    This song opens all the windows: pure genius, it is as relevant now as it was in 1965.

  • @dwalden74
    @dwalden74 7 месяцев назад +43

    He was 23 yrs old when he wrote this. 🤯

  • @ciaranosullivan9352
    @ciaranosullivan9352 Год назад +33

    "Bent out of shape from society's pliers". Ok, the Nobel prize is deserved for that line just by itself.

  • @danielcropp8553
    @danielcropp8553 3 года назад +175

    "He not busy being born is busy dying."
    Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan! 80 years old today. :)

  • @david-pb4bi
    @david-pb4bi 6 месяцев назад +36

    Every line in this song would be a career defining for almost everybody else.

  • @1DaTJo
    @1DaTJo Год назад +60

    Even Bob himself says he's in awe of this song. And to think he wrote it when he was just 23. I love Bob Dylan so much and I totally love this song.

  • @mator2339
    @mator2339 5 лет назад +1785

    One of the best songs ever written in the history of mankind.

  • @rmiddlehouse
    @rmiddlehouse 3 года назад +163

    “The masters make the rules, for the wise men and the fools” is a line that reoriented my thinking for the rest of my life

  • @jonathanb1406
    @jonathanb1406 Год назад +37

    It always blows my mind that this was recorded in one take.

    • @heynow2302
      @heynow2302 Год назад +1

      Dylan is a true Music Artist that's my thoughts on it.🙂

    • @jonathanb1406
      @jonathanb1406 Год назад +6

      @@heynow2302 Well, that's not in question. But he still has multiple takes for many of his songs, yet he recorded one take and one take alone of this song and nailed it in one, even after moments earlier saying he really didn't want to do it because it's so long. The fact it's so long and lyrically dense and he still just knocked it out in one is wild to me.

    • @stephenham6512
      @stephenham6512 2 месяца назад

      Because it had to be said and he knew he was the one who had to say it

  • @maybanjoe6776
    @maybanjoe6776 Год назад +21

    “Don’t hate nothing but hatred” goes hard asf

  • @davecespedes5674
    @davecespedes5674 5 лет назад +246

    Imagine being able to write this song. Bob's a fucking master, there's no other song like this one, fucking great.

    • @Max_j9578
      @Max_j9578 3 года назад +8

      There are other songs, they're also Bob Dylan songs.

    • @markmcgrath8051
      @markmcgrath8051 3 года назад +2

      You know Kidda😉

    • @maltelauridsbrigge3776
      @maltelauridsbrigge3776 3 года назад +12

      Even Bob says he can't imagine it, in the 60 Minutes interview. He says he doesn't know where those words came from and could never do that again these days.

    • @edwardcoe7293
      @edwardcoe7293 3 года назад +1

      Hey man, don't sit on the fence - say what you really think! 😉

    • @ajaypalsinghbhatti8901
      @ajaypalsinghbhatti8901 3 года назад +2

      He is the best boss in the poetry. Pure bliss like gold.

  • @balaw1980
    @balaw1980 7 месяцев назад +5

    In 500 years time only one artist from our time will be celebrated still... Bob Dylan.

  • @jefffawcett
    @jefffawcett 3 года назад +58

    My first time hearing this. Holy shit, amazing. Every word even more appropriate today 55 years later. And I never knew that Bob Dylan invented rap 😀

    • @mattmoore377
      @mattmoore377 2 года назад +9

      Listen to Subterranean Homesick Blues

  • @scottsaunders5087
    @scottsaunders5087 2 года назад +329

    More meaning in one song than many artists can achieve in an entire career

    • @_scabs6669
      @_scabs6669 Год назад +4

      Than any artist...
      Maybe the Smiths

    • @mindsigh4
      @mindsigh4 Год назад +2

      or takes a lifetime to get nuance after nuance & still not uncover them all like doin a jigsaw puzzle without the picture on the box

    • @denniscannon7834
      @denniscannon7834 Год назад +6

      Written by the best song writer ever

    • @flutterby1210
      @flutterby1210 Год назад

      @@denniscannon7834 Got that right!

    • @lenacohen8913
      @lenacohen8913 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@denniscannon7834nope. The best song writer ever was Leonard Cohen.

  • @randomletters8486
    @randomletters8486 Год назад +23

    Imagine hearing this on the radio today...

    • @MrPiccolop
      @MrPiccolop Год назад +7

      no chance. there would be uproar from the powers that be.

    • @randomletters8486
      @randomletters8486 Год назад +1

      @@MrPiccolop it would be nipped in the bud by the censors that be, im so glad to hear it live.

    • @vinterkatt1959
      @vinterkatt1959 3 дня назад

      The public today are so impressed by image,fireworks and totally meaningless lyrics😢

  • @brittneybrisbin744
    @brittneybrisbin744 3 года назад +186

    This is probably the best song I've ever heard. Brilliant songwriting. So glad I found Bob Dylan.

    • @CivilizedWarrior
      @CivilizedWarrior Год назад +3

      If you like Dylan you should check out John Prine. One of my favorite folk singers and lyricists. And he’s funny as shit to boot.

    • @smithwilliam6837
      @smithwilliam6837 Год назад +1

      Did not know that you lost him

    • @jaboi32
      @jaboi32 11 месяцев назад

      Ameen/Amen to that

    • @geneevans2600
      @geneevans2600 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@CivilizedWarrior... and wasn't rapped up in himself

    • @Internutt2023
      @Internutt2023 9 месяцев назад

      Back then, Bob was more of a poet who could put music to his work. He was the next in line after Paul Simon to make an impact in the 60's with very thoughtful lyrics.

  • @shuddupeyaface
    @shuddupeyaface 4 месяца назад +19

    The intellect is astonishing. Can't be easy to carry it. But to share it, what a gift to those that need it.
    I love Bob. And I'm not a glory chaser.
    So that really means something.

  • @valariehradhune4224
    @valariehradhune4224 2 года назад +42

    The man pushed lyrical structure to it's breaking point!

    • @Blackgeoff1
      @Blackgeoff1 Год назад +4

      So true .... the structure, or architecture, in Dylan's songs were amazing.

  • @nikunashi3494
    @nikunashi3494 4 года назад +113

    'Bent out of shape by society's pliers'. So much truth here if almost scary.

    • @celtickshatriya4306
      @celtickshatriya4306 3 года назад

      Cares not to come up any higher,but rather drag u down in the hole that hes in.😊

  • @valwav
    @valwav 2 года назад +12

    lol I had a lit teacher who got really mad when Dylan won the Nobel Prize and said he was a "pop singer"... Some people's arrogance really blinds them

  • @ConeFlower-gx2qk
    @ConeFlower-gx2qk 8 месяцев назад +11

    There’s something darkly magical about Bob Dylan idk how to explain it. It’s like someone seeing through a veil

  • @whocares1694
    @whocares1694 7 месяцев назад +4

    Bob was led the the Almighty Spirit here for sure.

  • @SiD14KiLLs
    @SiD14KiLLs 5 лет назад +905

    Only Dylan could have released such a sharp, biting song that is still relevant to this day.

    • @markwall9282
      @markwall9282 5 лет назад +5

      Try Steppenwolf,s Monster.

    • @paulhynes170
      @paulhynes170 5 лет назад +25

      Something about the song it’s deep you get dragged in by the lyrics and the guitar at the same time - it’s kind of hypnotic beyond its time

    • @collinadams2906
      @collinadams2906 5 лет назад +13

      And I think it shall always be relevant.

    • @paulhynes170
      @paulhynes170 5 лет назад +8

      Collin Adams - it’s timeless you would not think it was written 55 years ago probably the most profound song I have listen to I have always wondered how he played this on the guitar tried it myself but can not find a version with the chords or notes he is using whilst he recorded this

    • @SiD14KiLLs
      @SiD14KiLLs 5 лет назад +2

      @@paulhynes170 try the version on dylanchords.info

  • @brianripley3924
    @brianripley3924 5 лет назад +536

    Easy to see why Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize, his verses are so meaningful and enduring.

  • @Xiaolongbaokid16
    @Xiaolongbaokid16 Год назад +26

    The lyrics.... one or maybe the most profound and perhaps the deepest ever written.

  • @Snowdrift68
    @Snowdrift68 3 года назад +64

    His birthday is on Monday. Eighty years old. A miracle that him and I are still both alive. And I agree..some of his songs are true poetry set to music. It has been said, poetry is the only magic there is. They can teach you to do just about anything but not how to write a real poem. God bless

    • @ajaypalsinghbhatti8901
      @ajaypalsinghbhatti8901 3 года назад +1

      Bob is bob only one in millions. Live long bob Zimmerman. Pure poetry pure truth.truth hurts but truth is like the sun. Shining always.

    • @dixonpinfold2582
      @dixonpinfold2582 3 года назад +1

      If they have their choice, most people will worship the human form, and language. It branches out from there, but those two things seem to be at the core.

    • @gregmann8981
      @gregmann8981 2 года назад +1

      It's amazing that he could write something like this and then do an about face and be totally calm and removed from all the bullshit and in a knowing and contemplative spirit write something like Watching The River Flow with Leon Russell. If you've never heard:
      ruclips.net/video/_xRlojtDdEs/видео.html

  • @innesmackintosh214
    @innesmackintosh214 5 лет назад +1160

    Blows my mind every time that a person actually wrote those lyrics

    • @nikkifisher1998
      @nikkifisher1998 5 лет назад +8

      I thought this was a pretty good track all in all

    • @LosHuxleys
      @LosHuxleys 5 лет назад +81

      The rhyme scheme is so complex it is almost ridiculous

    • @blank9354
      @blank9354 5 лет назад +38

      More like the devil..

    • @chrismendoza4355
      @chrismendoza4355 5 лет назад +52

      He admitted there was a magic(devils) that came over him and that he couldn't do it again of he tried. In an interview speaking about his bargain with the devil.

    • @guillermosantolaria9932
      @guillermosantolaria9932 5 лет назад +34

      @@chrismendoza4355 lol

  • @joshuapriestley5307
    @joshuapriestley5307 2 года назад +37

    Simply genius at some point in every human beings life they should hear this

  • @ala0284
    @ala0284 Год назад +21

    Wow. Just wow. Its like someone distilled all of the thoughts of millions of people about the problems of life into a seven minute song. Incredible

  • @Judahwidtfeldt
    @Judahwidtfeldt Год назад +15

    Bob Dylan paints a picture in his songs because he is such a good story teller. This song is life squeezed into a seven minute song.

  • @joelcoote4525
    @joelcoote4525 4 года назад +43

    I don't say this lightly - This IS lyrically the BEST song EVER written and recorded.

    • @anarchyeddy27
      @anarchyeddy27 4 года назад +5

      I agree, but I think that about a lot of his songs.

    • @Harmonicaman1000
      @Harmonicaman1000 4 года назад +2

      Joel Coote oh yes. He shares his heart and story✝️🕊🎶👍

    • @mysticwine
      @mysticwine Месяц назад

      He was a master of 1 liners. "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

  • @jerryhoward8133
    @jerryhoward8133 Год назад +31

    I am blown away every time I listen to this masterpiece. A cutting edge look at how really fucked up humanity is. The man transcends the word iconic.

  • @jamesbueker11
    @jamesbueker11 Год назад +523

    Memorized the lyrics and performed it as a spoken piece for a high school drama final. The room was just silent. I got an A. The song still has that shock value

  • @splotbang8296
    @splotbang8296 Год назад +13

    Today, Bob has no idea how he wrote songs like this. That magic is long gone. This from an interview he did on 60 minutes.

  • @LosHuxleys
    @LosHuxleys 5 лет назад +205

    A masterpiece of poetry.

  • @RiverLynch
    @RiverLynch 5 лет назад +85

    It doesn't get any better than this. Hands down my favorite song ever by anybody. Never has so much truth been spoken in one song. Cuts right through the bullshit we are fed on a daily basis. Sobering

    • @Blackgeoff1
      @Blackgeoff1 Год назад +2

      With you totally on that.
      I personally cannot listen to this song without following it with Mr Tambourine Man, which somehow to me is like the next place to go after all the bullshit Dylan describes has been torn down, or at least neutralised in our own minds..
      For me, Tambourine Man is the resolution of Its Alright Ma.

    • @harrietbradleygillen3028
      @harrietbradleygillen3028 Год назад +4

      Unutterably brilliant. Pins down the crazed world we struggle in today

  • @georgerakis1795
    @georgerakis1795 2 года назад +76

    Written over 60 yrs ago, the relevance of this song with the state of our society as it is today is mind blowing. Dylan nails it again.

    • @PatrickPierceBateman
      @PatrickPierceBateman 2 года назад

      Bob Dylan, he's more creative than Spielberg and predicts thing just like Quasimodo.

    • @MrDaoJones
      @MrDaoJones 2 года назад +7

      I think it just kind of goes to show that while many things have appeared to change since then, nothing really has

    • @MKActual.
      @MKActual. Год назад

      Amen to that

    • @_scabs6669
      @_scabs6669 Год назад

      Did he see or cause the future

    • @joejones9520
      @joejones9520 Год назад

      it's ambiguous so can be applied to anything from any time period...

  • @AB-mf8le
    @AB-mf8le 3 года назад +193

    If any other artist released 'Bringing it all back home' it would be their magnum opus and they would dine out on it for decades afterwards. For Dylan it was just another album. Amongst his back catalogue it doesn't even really stand out. A freakish talent

    • @elstonngunn4193
      @elstonngunn4193 3 года назад +16

      It does come on it’s an amazing album it is definitely one of his best definitely top 5 anyway, it stands out massively w sum of his best songs like it’s all over now baby blue mr tambourine man subterranean homesick blues and gates of Eden and love minus zeros

    • @matthewbrown4737
      @matthewbrown4737 3 года назад +1

      Truth

    • @JM-co6rf
      @JM-co6rf 3 года назад +3

      'freakish talent', well put

    • @padgemahaj3167
      @padgemahaj3167 3 года назад +5

      And to think rolling stone put Kanye west on their list off albums ahead of this masterpiece of an album what drugs are they smoking this song alone is better anything Kanye west done and will ever do

    • @AB-mf8le
      @AB-mf8le 3 года назад +3

      @@elstonngunn4193 Oh I'm right there with ya it's a stunning album. I just think in an amongst Freewheelin, BOTT, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Desire, Oh Mercy etc etc it really is just another album

  • @Max_j9578
    @Max_j9578 4 года назад +23

    I can't believe I've listened to this song almost 700,000 times.

    • @whatisup4811
      @whatisup4811 4 года назад +1

      I also can't believe that.
      4.38(the length of the song in minutes)x700 000=3066000 seconds
      3066000=851.6666667 hours.

    • @Max_j9578
      @Max_j9578 4 года назад

      @@whatisup4811 I actually clicked on the song 7000 times at once, and did it once every day for the next ten days.

    • @whatisup4811
      @whatisup4811 3 года назад

      @@Max_j9578 Why? I get it, I like the song but that seems excessive

  • @Samu93c
    @Samu93c 3 года назад +37

    One of the greatest song ever written. Bob is the greatest artist of our times.

  • @markmurphy1778
    @markmurphy1778 2 года назад +8

    Bob Dylan Spokesman for a generation: Pure Genius !!!!!

  • @dgold2271
    @dgold2271 Год назад +17

    This is the fabric of life in a song. No judgement no expectations...and most importantly no explanation. Thank you mrD. For all of it.

  • @mawtymawty9010
    @mawtymawty9010 2 года назад +419

    I listened to this while laying in bed at the peak of an acid trip. While all the other songs happened around me, this one seemed to live directly inside my brain. I looked up at the shadows on the candlelit ceiling and saw Christ on the cross. Very strange.

  • @JackMySmack
    @JackMySmack 2 года назад +12

    Love the poetry in protesting that Dylan revolutionised. Not a lot of people can make songs that are angry and just without actually sounding angry or using swear words anymore.
    "Disillusioned words like bullets bark
    As human gods aim for their mark
    Make everything from toy guns that spark,
    To flesh-coloured Christs that glow in the dark
    It's easy to see without looking too far,
    That not much is really sacred."
    Thank you, Dylan. And a belated happy 80th birthday!

  • @jamesdalessandro1120
    @jamesdalessandro1120 3 года назад +342

    A flat out masterpiece, among a library of masterpieces. I danced around the room when Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature - as deserving as anyone. How many times have I said "He not busy being born is busy dying." In the history of contemporary music, Dylan stands alone.

    • @midnightok3er
      @midnightok3er 2 года назад +5

      Also give kendrick Lamar credit. It was an unconventional but well deserved tip of the cap.

    • @layicorn
      @layicorn 2 года назад +3

      Kendrick Lamar is the Bob Dylan of modern music

    • @ajaypalsinghbhatti8901
      @ajaypalsinghbhatti8901 2 года назад +1

      Master of words. A magician of words. Cheers mr. Bob Zimmerman Dylan. Live long.

    • @p51abc
      @p51abc 2 года назад +3

      I'm a Dylan fan and I didn't dance with the prize. He ignored it for months, he didn't even initially want it. I understand its just a popularity contest, often going to those who are the most politically aligned with the times, proven by the long list of deserved authors who were ignored by it for the contemporary Pied Piper of that moment.... I love Dylan but prizes are nothing, nor are criticisms.

    • @latitudeselongitudes1932
      @latitudeselongitudes1932 2 года назад +1

      Artistically,culturally,to me,the 20th century is Dylan,The Beatles and Picasso. Iconic,gigantic forces of art,creativity

  • @barking_mad6649
    @barking_mad6649 Год назад +9

    1965. Crazy to think this song is 58 years old as the lyrics are still as fresh as the day they were written.
    Dylan's greatest lyric, without question. IMO.

  • @sidDkid87
    @sidDkid87 4 года назад +52

    *"money doesn't talk, it swears"*

    • @Katarinatorn
      @Katarinatorn 3 года назад +2

      Humans are the only ones that has to PAY to live on their own planet. That is going to change soon though lol

    • @sidDkid87
      @sidDkid87 3 года назад

      @@Katarinatorn this planet has no need for us

  • @Wuei108
    @Wuei108 4 года назад +417

    [Verse 1]
    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
    [Verse 2]
    Pointed threats they bluff with scorn
    Suicide remarks are torn
    From the fools gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
    Plays wasted words, proves to warn
    That he not busy being born
    Is busy dying
    [Verse 3]
    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
    [Chorus]
    So don't fear if you hear
    A foreign sound to your ear
    It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing
    [Verse 4]
    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
    [Verse 5]
    Disillusioned words like bullets bark
    As human gods aim for their mark
    Make everything from toy guns that spark
    To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
    It's easy to see without lookin' too far
    That not much is really sacred
    [Verse 6]
    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
    [Chorus]
    And 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
    [Verse 7]
    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
    [Verse 8]
    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
    [Verse 9]
    A question in your nerves is lit
    Yet you know there is no answer fit
    To satisfy, ensure 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
    [Chorus]
    But though the masters make the rules
    For the wise men and the fools
    I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
    [Verse 10]
    For them that must obey authority
    That they do not respect in any degree
    Who despise their jobs, their destiny
    Speak jealously of them that are free
    Do what they do just to be
    Nothing more than something they invest in
    [Verse 11]
    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 say "God bless him"
    [Verse 12]
    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
    [Chorus]
    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
    [Verse 13]
    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
    [Verse 14]
    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 'em naturally
    Life sometimes must get lonely
    [Verse 15]
    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've had enough
    What else can you show me?
    [Chorus]
    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

    • @walkingmanhisdogtakingvide3901
      @walkingmanhisdogtakingvide3901 2 года назад +31

      Thank you for posting the lyrics

    • @Wuei108
      @Wuei108 2 года назад +13

      @@walkingmanhisdogtakingvide3901 You are welcome.

    • @coffeehugger
      @coffeehugger 2 года назад +4

      That was helpful, obviously a die hard fan. :)

    • @keitheddie5
      @keitheddie5 2 года назад +5

      @@coffeehugger there are many here among us who think that life is but a joke

    • @patrickgirard7645
      @patrickgirard7645 2 года назад

      Verset 6 mauvaise traduction... C'est plutôt.. Même le président des États-Unis doit un moment se tenir nu !

  • @christinafidance340
    @christinafidance340 3 года назад +108

    I’m listening to Bob and missing my ma SO MUCH right now! She passed away 6 years ago right before Christmas. She first got me into Bob when I was about 10. The very first song she ever played for me was Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 and she explained to me how it had 2 meanings, but to never ever tell my dad she let he hear it! Lol. God, I MISS HER SO MUCH!!! She was my biggest fan! Always there to tell me how proud she was of me and now I’m just a sobbing 49 year old baby crying my eyes out! I took her to see Bob 8 (EIGHT!) times and Tom Petty twice and Stevie Nicks once and I wouldn’t trade those memories for the world! I miss you, mom!

    • @midnightok3er
      @midnightok3er 2 года назад +2

      Great way to connect. I'm sorry for your loss.

    • @marciahoaglen9971
      @marciahoaglen9971 2 года назад +4

      I totally fell your heartfelt words. Not many parents heard this poets words with so much passion. Your Mom a treasure.

    • @donvirili1691
      @donvirili1691 2 года назад +2

      Yea my mom died too
      April 31 2021 I miss her very much, the cops took my Mitsubishi lancer left me in the rain walking home .on shut down could not make car payment what a planed attack to break up family!
      The rules of the road have been logged only peoples gains you have to dodge.
      (I Have nothing to live up too!)

    • @TheHopeyounginak
      @TheHopeyounginak 2 года назад

      Oh she must be a very proud and lucky mother!!

    • @bainbasinger8548
      @bainbasinger8548 2 года назад

      may peace wash all over your beutiful self

  • @beverlyfielder9425
    @beverlyfielder9425 Год назад +21

    I'm still Spellbound after all of these years I can't get enough of this guy he's infectious

    • @Carlossantanamusicinc
      @Carlossantanamusicinc Год назад

      Hello dear, how’re you doing today?
      It’s nice meeting you on here.

  • @iamd.j.7590
    @iamd.j.7590 5 лет назад +251

    Easily some of the most haunting lyrics ever and presented in a haunting way

    • @not2tees
      @not2tees 4 года назад +4

      True - not only the words but the voice are full of the shock of the whatever it is that makes things true.

    • @wighto73
      @wighto73 4 года назад +4

      he was... connected!

  • @roblifely9244
    @roblifely9244 2 года назад +209

    "He not busy being born is busy dying" and "Money doesn't talk, it swears" Two of the greatest lines ever written, and they're both in the same song!! This guy should be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature

    • @billneary691
      @billneary691 Год назад +5

      Shakespearian words, he's a Bard.

    • @Blackgeoff1
      @Blackgeoff1 Год назад +2

      That's very good ..

    • @micheleulysse
      @micheleulysse Год назад +18

      I agree! Always did! But he actually won it in 2016...

    • @lynnkent2318
      @lynnkent2318 Год назад +1

      Absolutely!!

    • @ivanmclaren9509
      @ivanmclaren9509 Год назад +1

      Yeah, seems he sold his soul to the devil... that's who would get the Nobel Prize.

  • @deborahlauterbach6156
    @deborahlauterbach6156 2 года назад +21

    Nobody can top this one. Greatest ever written.

  • @jonwright6628
    @jonwright6628 3 года назад +19

    The track to play your friend who doesn't get what all the fuss is about.

  • @chuckwilliam4746
    @chuckwilliam4746 4 года назад +42

    There aren't words sufficient enough to describe this song's greatness

    • @user-bt6tl7xr5c
      @user-bt6tl7xr5c 9 месяцев назад

      I wish they had producers cut albums along with the artists cuts versions of albums

  • @honiideslysses12
    @honiideslysses12 2 года назад +9

    This gem is just as relevant today as it ever was.

  • @2468pebble
    @2468pebble 3 года назад +40

    Masterclass.
    What must it have been like, being Bob Dylan and having these songs surging out of you?

  • @MerkinMuffly
    @MerkinMuffly 2 года назад +153

    Has there ever been a greater, more prolific poet? I think not.

    • @marianmisirgic4005
      @marianmisirgic4005 2 года назад +1

      Yes,it is.

    • @abigailclarkwall1935
      @abigailclarkwall1935 2 года назад

      @@nextideathink.it’s only people’s games you got to dodge!

    • @andygrant9733
      @andygrant9733 2 года назад +2

      Try Paul Simon

    • @branthomas1621
      @branthomas1621 2 года назад +1

      @@nextideathink Wash your mouth out boy, Kayne West and go West and stay. Hogwash

    • @thebacons5943
      @thebacons5943 2 года назад +4

      @@andygrant9733 Simon? lolololololololololololol stop

  • @michaelgoodsell6387
    @michaelgoodsell6387 3 года назад +31

    No wonder he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

  • @maximumoccupancy
    @maximumoccupancy 5 лет назад +415

    This is the most perfect song ever. The lyrics cover literally every theme imaginable and you can always find new meaning in this after hearing it more than 1,000 times. I would know.

  • @tamsmith6751
    @tamsmith6751 Год назад +5

    So Bob Dylan was the voice of his generation. Hes won a Nobel Prize...Had over 6000 different singers sing his songs...The best song writer on earth, ever....AND, the cut the first Rap song !!!!!..... The man truly is a genius..

  • @mitch2620
    @mitch2620 2 года назад +23

    I know it’s a difficult choice, but his greatest? He was on fire writing this masterpiece.

    • @nonamo
      @nonamo 2 года назад

      I'm thinking, maybe his greatest.

    • @LosHuxleys
      @LosHuxleys Год назад +1

      Lirically? Yeah maybe… perhaps the most complicated rhyme scheme he created. But some other works like Desolation Row are equally creative in the imagery they paint…

    • @StatistikinDD
      @StatistikinDD Год назад

      @@LosHuxleys Good choice. Yet so much to choose from ... Jokerman. Or the obvious Like A Rolling Stone. Personally, I think Changing of the Guard is brilliant.

    • @bluegregory6239
      @bluegregory6239 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@nonamo His 'best' is subjective, but this is certainly my favorite Dylan song.

  • @warmwoolsoxgood4559
    @warmwoolsoxgood4559 4 года назад +73

    This is the song I carried around verbatim in my head since I was a young girl. I’ve not heard it sung in years, and came back to it today, to check on it to see how much I've changed. I found not much at all, except for a certain knowledge that I’m witless and that we are all in this together. God bless the man whose soul found these words and shared them with this tired, desperate world. In their phrasing, they’re damning, and in their entirety, they are uplifting, in a sincerity of truths that stagger us individually, yet can be absorbed as one. May he live longer than I do.

    • @eslovexc
      @eslovexc 4 года назад +2

      Truth

    • @midnightok3er
      @midnightok3er 2 года назад +2

      Well said.

    • @tiddybagel
      @tiddybagel 2 года назад +1

      Amazing articulation of the beauty of this masterpiece .

    • @zoey9764
      @zoey9764 2 года назад +1

      Right On !!!

    • @nonconformist9991
      @nonconformist9991 2 года назад

      Check out last thoughts on Woodie Guthrie one of the greatest poems ever written by Bob Dylan.

  • @ramroshan417
    @ramroshan417 2 года назад +9

    It is not possible to dislike a Bob Dylan song.

  • @christophert.5954
    @christophert.5954 3 года назад +150

    When you listen to this song in your car, your car explodes after a while.

  • @counterf8515
    @counterf8515 2 года назад +12

    I reckon decades, even centuries could roll by and this song, let's hope it remains recorded somewhere, will still be one of the most timelessly relevant statements in the history of mankind.
    The sheer confidence of conviction in the statement in some next level mental gymnastics and linguistic structuring.
    The man is a poetic wizard.

  • @JM-co6rf
    @JM-co6rf 3 года назад +74

    The greatest lyrics of ALL TIME. Sorry folks, the game is over.

    • @bluegenes2273
      @bluegenes2273 3 года назад +1

      Oh, man. That's a tall order.

    • @bluegenes2273
      @bluegenes2273 3 года назад +2

      Of course david bowie is in the running. I'd put cake on the list, too. I kinda want to say cab calloway and harry nilsson, but that's my own personal taste.
      I'm going to fall asleep listing bands for sure, haha

    • @bojokeson9001
      @bojokeson9001 2 года назад

      Don't forget nirvana has this issue like most seem too in pop music. What's up with Danny's Song, that fraternity mentioned in the lyrics didn't exist I don't think until like 15 years later

    • @tyrekecantrell5941
      @tyrekecantrell5941 2 года назад +1

      @@bluegenes2273 Cake?! Is that some joke?

    • @bluegenes2273
      @bluegenes2273 2 года назад

      @@tyrekecantrell5941 cake. not cakez.

  • @Zerowolf760
    @Zerowolf760 4 месяца назад +11

    This song is truer today than ever!!!!

  • @claudettepreisinger
    @claudettepreisinger 4 года назад +120

    Best lyrics he ever wrote. I was a teenager when I first heard this, and it gave me chills....Still does...To say the least, he speaks the truth, the raw truth....

    • @meyou-dv8ns
      @meyou-dv8ns 3 года назад +1

      What does it mean? At least Frank Zappa got to the point when he wrote Trouble coming every day on his 1966 freak out album

    • @claudettepreisinger
      @claudettepreisinger 3 года назад +5

      @@meyou-dv8ns If you really don't understand these lyrics, then you must live in a fairy land bubble....

    • @SpTh2
      @SpTh2 3 года назад +7

      @@meyou-dv8ns Some lyrics are somewhat up to interpretation but some have solid meanings that really put things into perspective, I encourage you to find and read the lyrics instead of looking for other people's explanations online, as some of those explanations are plagued by the same things the lyrics try to warn you about, really does say a lot.
      If you're into Frank Zappa then you probably shouldn't have to go far to find the meaning. Zappa shared a large part of his ideology with Dylan, but unfortunately, unlike Dylan, his lyrics mostly fell on deaf ears.

    • @jackzaffos9347
      @jackzaffos9347 Год назад +2

      I was a teenager as well when I first heard this. I got the chills then and now at 73!

    • @claudettepreisinger
      @claudettepreisinger Год назад

      @@jackzaffos9347 Agreed...

  • @charlessullivan5370
    @charlessullivan5370 2 года назад +39

    Every time I hear this song, and a litany of other Dylan songs, old and new, it blows my mind. Without blinking, Dylan explores the dystopic side of America, the side the masses lack the courage to face. A masterpiece in every way.

  • @DrCreepen
    @DrCreepen 3 года назад +371

    One of my biggest regrets during my 4+ decades on this planet is that I've never been able to appreciate Dylan as much as I feel I should.. Dare ı say it, I might finally be starting to see the light.

    • @martincvitkovich724
      @martincvitkovich724 3 года назад +9

      His concerts in the 70's & 80's were killers. Unfortunately his voice as of late is getting too rough. But I'd take a Dylan song anyday!

    • @sethstine4698
      @sethstine4698 3 года назад +17

      Once you get it; you get it. There is no turning back or shutting that door. Revelation of epic proportions. Same with an epiphany/ontological confrontation after taking LSD or psilocybin.

    • @oobedoos
      @oobedoos 3 года назад +20

      better late than never

    • @radcow
      @radcow 3 года назад +4

      Wow really spoke to me in my teens

    • @kevanbrown7620
      @kevanbrown7620 3 года назад +13

      @@sethstine4698You've hit the nail on the head there, once you get Dylan, that's it, you become aware, like acid, you see things in a different light, you realise you're here, breathing, being, that's what getting Dylan is like, he's a true legend, he is in the musical company of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, such big influences. Some people never get Dylan, they say "I like that song he wrote that someone else done", aaahh. Anyway I love Dylan, to the extent I have almost all of his releases, apart from his 'Sinatra' trilogy, I have all of his studio releases, all of the bootleg series Vol 1-15, and over half of his live albums, which I will complete soon.

  • @jeffthrow6892
    @jeffthrow6892 3 года назад +31

    There are no words to accurately describe how brilliant this song is.......one of my top favorite Dylan songs, from one of his very best albums......

  • @jacquelinejenkins2616
    @jacquelinejenkins2616 6 дней назад +1

    My Mom loved Bob Dylan. Me too. We would be together listening to as many songs as we could. ❤️❤️ Memories...

  • @dougpeters1625
    @dougpeters1625 4 месяца назад +3

    With a song like this one could argue that Bob was the godfather of rap

    • @user-kn5on8tj4y
      @user-kn5on8tj4y 29 дней назад +2

      I totally agree🎉🎉🎉My sons a rapper and he totally agrees too!

  • @mjremy2605
    @mjremy2605 9 месяцев назад +6

    Thank god there are people that think like me. Feels good in the Age of Trumpster the Dumpster.
    Thank you Bob Dylan. When you die as we all must, I will cry pearls.

  • @asmru6982
    @asmru6982 2 года назад +8

    Damn it! He is our modern Shakespeare. This puts current music to embarrassment and shame. Current songwriters hide under their beds counting money while the things that need to be sung about stay unsung as Rome falls

  • @Leon-zu1wp
    @Leon-zu1wp 6 месяцев назад +5

    How someone can be upset Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize for Literature I will never understand.

  • @momo_genX
    @momo_genX 7 месяцев назад +3

    Only after about 27 years of Dylan fandom, i realize this is a top contender for the best Dylan song.

  • @caseydinicola6193
    @caseydinicola6193 2 года назад +43

    I cannot begin to explain how much this song has done for me. Thank you for being there always, Bob Dylan.

    • @Carlossantanamusicinc
      @Carlossantanamusicinc Год назад

      Hello dear, how’re you doing today?
      It’s nice meeting you on here.

    • @2paraLLknight
      @2paraLLknight 11 месяцев назад

      Has friend. In busnessof fish

    • @2paraLLknight
      @2paraLLknight 11 месяцев назад

      Is it?

    • @2paraLLknight
      @2paraLLknight 11 месяцев назад

      Thank you Patti Smith for being a true Dylan fan your purrformance purfect tell em z

  • @howard49
    @howard49 2 года назад +32

    Dylan literally saved my wretched life (at the time). He introduced me to a world i innately knew but never knew in reality. All around was grey and meaningless. Drifting half asleep, going through the motions.
    "Blood on the tracks" shook me out of this coma...initially "Tangled up in blue". It was instant recognition!!! "Its alright Ma" followed then "Hard Rain", Blowing in the wind, the times they are a changing etc.
    I was mesmerized, hooked and awakened to the mood of the times. Dylan was the man!
    Years later i had to good fortune to meet him in person. And the amazing thing was that he came up and spoke to me, in of all places Shakespeares birthplace, Stratford upon Avon. A circle was completed.
    This song is a colossus, an enduring anthem for us to return to time and again. He is beyond words. In deep and eternal gratitude 🙏

    • @heynow2302
      @heynow2302 2 года назад +2

      And it's beautiful ain't it ✌️😎

    • @daedrmr2dae
      @daedrmr2dae 2 года назад +2

      Beautiful words, yours and his. He's inspiring indeed-- it was floating around in the comments that he was 23 when he wrote this. I'm pretty sure I was nowhere near this aware of the world around me when I was 23. I'd love to know how he did it, what were those chance meetings he had and with who that set him on this iconoclastic path.
      One that really surprises me is how little he talks about his family and home life. I suspect he was brought up in a home that would have fostered his talent, but he's so private about it that you'd never know. I haven't heard him say a single positive thing about his mother or father in any interview. The main thing I've heard him say is that he was born into the wrong family and basically had to reject everything.

    • @tulayamalavenapi4028
      @tulayamalavenapi4028 Год назад +2

      Wow.
      And yes!
      To me Dylan is like Buddha.
      As Buddha, the insulated transcendental child who sees the world eventually,
      Dylan ventures out in his innocence of simple spiritual journalism, on God's crucial assignment.
      The assignment to make sure we who are drowning will awaken to grab that life buoy of absolute truth. Bob Dylan is not of this world -he + his poetry legacy are life saving, so let's grab on.
      Thank you for telling your story friend

    • @marktwain5232
      @marktwain5232 Год назад

      Great story! Thank you so much for sharing it!

  • @corsoconner
    @corsoconner 9 дней назад +1

    Bob opened up the magic of words and poetry when I was 15. I closed my eyes and was transported with visions. Like Rimbaud, Bob set the high water mark adding musical tones to the canvas. He also exemplified being cool in the groove and took the bull by the horns.

  • @Steve_643
    @Steve_643 3 года назад +2

    As far as song writers Bob Dylan is on top by himself and it’s not even close!!!!!

  • @antonettakutschera5077
    @antonettakutschera5077 3 года назад +22

    I can't believe that he is so gifted to remember every and I mean every word every time he performs this song, this man is very prophetic. Never will there another Bob Dylan, seems to me that God is rather fond of him, I know I am!!!!

    • @Katarinatorn
      @Katarinatorn 3 года назад +1

      God is fond of him yes

    • @TheMidnightModder
      @TheMidnightModder 3 года назад

      God is fond of every human because He created every one of us.
      But unless we accept the Father and the Son then we're denying the creator and He will not force His will onto us.
      It wouldn't surprise me if Dylan has ditched the gospel. But it also wouldn't surprise me if he's accepted Christ.

    • @oliverfan9816
      @oliverfan9816 3 года назад

      @@TheMidnightModder When your mind dives into these deep dark places you find that you're forced to fall in to some religion, simply to stay sane.

    • @TheMidnightModder
      @TheMidnightModder 3 года назад

      @@oliverfan9816 For the most part, yes. Because God heals.

  • @miketakahashi5550
    @miketakahashi5550 4 года назад +41

    One of the best songs ever written

  • @blahblahoink
    @blahblahoink 3 года назад +19

    There's more quality in that one song than most writers could come up with in a whole career.

  • @AngusWare-mi3zp
    @AngusWare-mi3zp Месяц назад +6

    “I kept telling you this guy was good” The Sopranos

  • @tylerduncan9671
    @tylerduncan9671 3 года назад +12

    You know there’s something up when a folk singer uses way more complicated rhyme schemes than any rapper now of days lol. Definitely one of the most well written songs of all time.

  • @vilmarrodrigues5837
    @vilmarrodrigues5837 2 года назад +7

    In addition to everything amazing he's done, Bob Dylan was rapping before rap even existed

  • @jamesdalessandro1120
    @jamesdalessandro1120 Год назад +2

    "It's easy to see without looking too far/that not much is really sacred."

  • @helenbostock2350
    @helenbostock2350 2 года назад +16

    I heard these words then I was sixteen and I forgot over time how important these words are. They still ring richer today.

  • @woolhall
    @woolhall 5 лет назад +76

    never get tired of this masterpiece

    • @ajaypalsinghbhatti8901
      @ajaypalsinghbhatti8901 3 года назад +1

      Class class bless u mr. Dylan

    • @abigailclarkwall1935
      @abigailclarkwall1935 2 года назад +1

      His tongue’s on fire. Nothing’s really sacred, it’s not he/ she/ or it we have to look up to. God bless him. He’s a poet laureate

  • @ag9652
    @ag9652 3 года назад +106

    Going through a tough time right now and I don't know how much worse it would be without Dylan's music

    • @bendrescher7185
      @bendrescher7185 3 года назад +5

      I hope you get through whatever is happening

    • @thejudderman8265
      @thejudderman8265 3 года назад +4

      You can get through it, don’t be afraid to ask for help.

    • @bmxseeker6780
      @bmxseeker6780 2 года назад +2

      Amen to that brother

    • @yamapenny5960
      @yamapenny5960 2 года назад

      @@bendrescher7185
      Its just the Demokratie allover is running out.... "corona helps"

    • @yamapenny5960
      @yamapenny5960 2 года назад

      👍👍👍

  • @Rough_cut613
    @Rough_cut613 8 месяцев назад +3

    I heard Dylan in an interview answering the question "how did you write all those iconic songs" and his response (to paraphrase) "I can't do it anymore, there was a time when I wrote those early songs and it was like a kind of magic deep penetrating magic was happening....." was so bittersweet. Like he knows now as an old man that he was channeling something so profound it can't be duplicated.

  • @annahelms4701
    @annahelms4701 Год назад +6

    Those who wax on about popularity and acceptance don't seem to understand that those issues were not a priority for Bob especially as he matured....he followed his inspiration and let the chips fall where they may

    • @Carlossantanamusicinc
      @Carlossantanamusicinc Год назад

      Hello dear, how’re you doing today?
      It’s nice meeting you on here.

  • @3rk4u
    @3rk4u 4 года назад +34

    a lifetimes education in 1 track,as only bob can.

  • @satanshelper9379
    @satanshelper9379 4 года назад +64

    Bob the original rapper😎🍹🏖🇺🇸🇰🇷

  • @dr.daverobbo2407
    @dr.daverobbo2407 Год назад +4

    An amazing talent encapsulated in this evergreen sung commentary on life

  • @Amanda57563
    @Amanda57563 6 месяцев назад +3

    Never heard this song. It was mentioned in the book "Murder in the Family". It's now a new favorite. ❤