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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Musician · American · b. 1941

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I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
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Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.
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I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.
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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
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You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.
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In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.
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and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met
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If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.
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And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin
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I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.
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When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.
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Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.
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Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.
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They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.
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So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives Don't know how it all got started I don't what they're doing with their lives But me I'm still on the road Heading for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in Blue.
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It's not dark yet But it's getting there
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Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there
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If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.
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Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid
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The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.
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There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
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