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“Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time…”

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Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Mr. Tambourine Man

Time

“My so-called friends have fallen under a spell: they look me squarely in the eye and say, "Well; all is well."”

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Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Precious Angel

“I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned slowly into autumn.”

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Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind

Autumn , Tree , Waiting

“I always have respected her for doin' what she did and gettin' free”

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Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), If You See Her, Say Hello

“Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.”

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Liner notes https://bobdylan.com/albums/freewheelin-bob-dylan/, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)

Singing

“With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow.”

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Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Mr. Tambourine Man

Fate , Memory , Forgetting

“Your lover who just walked out the door, has taken all his blankets from your floor.”

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Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Lovers

“Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth, he can do with it as he please. And if things don't change soon, he will.”

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Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), License to Kill

Thinking , Change

“My patron saint is a-fighting with a ghost. He's always off somewhere when I need him most.”

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Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Abandoned Love (recorded 1975)

Fight

“If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.”

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Quoted in Robert Shelton's No Direction Home (1986), p. 281

Dreams

“We're going all the way, till the wheels fall off and burn, till the sun peels the paint and the seat covers fade and the water moccasins die.”

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Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)

Way , Water , Sun , Painting

“The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame; preacherman seeks the same. Who'll get there first is uncertain.”

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Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Jokerman

“I'm a poet, and I know it.”

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Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), I Shall Be Free No. 10

“Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
And where have you been, my darling young one?”

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Compare: "O where ha' you been, Lord Randal, my son? And where ha' you been, my handsome young man?" Lord Randall, no. 12.
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall

“I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from”

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Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet

“But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel.”

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Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Visions of Johanna

“You got some big dreams, baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be asleep.”

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Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When You Gonna Wake Up

Dreams , Baby

“Well, if you, my love, must think that-a-way,
I'm sure your mind is roamin'.
I'm sure your heart is not with me,
But with the country to where you're goin'.”

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Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Boots of Spanish Leather

Love , Way , Thinking , Heart

“In the dime stores and bus stations,
People talk of situations,
Read books repeat quotations,
Draw conclusions on the wall.”

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Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Love Minus Zero/No Limit

People , Books , Reading , Drawing

“When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?”

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Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When You Gonna Wake Up