“Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstacy,
I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory and all your ragin' glory”

—  Bob Dylan

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

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

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