“Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made”

—  Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Like a Rolling Stone

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American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

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