Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 22
Context: I was heading for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.
Bob Dylan: Likeness
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Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Like a Rolling Stone
Source: http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/65-aug.htm Bob Dylan Interview
“Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.”
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), The Times They Are A-Changin'
Context: Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown.
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet.”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Visions of Johanna
Source: Lyrics: 1962-2001
“I was walking through the leaves Falling from the trees.
Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.”
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi
Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Maggie's Farm
Variant: Well I tried my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them
“Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?”
Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), It Ain't Me Babe
Context: Go away from my window,
Leave at your own chosen speed,
I'm not the one you want, babe,
I'm not the one you need.
You say you're looking for someone,
Who's never weak but always strong,
To protect you and defend you,
Whether you are right or wrong,
Someone to open each and every door,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're looking for, babe.
“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
Interview http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/int/shelton1978.07.29.html with Robert Shelton, Melody Maker (29 July 1978)
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 9
“Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.”
Song lyrics, Self Portrait (1970), Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
“Yonder stands your orphan with his gun, crying like a fire in the sun.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue