R. Zimmerman from Minnesota – Part 4

“You have to get past the keeping-up-with-the-times stuff. It’s not about keeping up with the times, being a poet for the eighties, rock ‘n’ roller for the nineties, you don’t want to get trapped…you have to learn about it all and call it up when you need it. The old trades are still the most useful, can get you out of a jam. 

 

Everything is crooked now and the signs all point you the wrong way- it’s like we’re living at the time of the Tower of Babel, all our tongues are confused. We’re building a tower to Venus. Where the hell is that? What are we going to find there? God? 

 

The Bible says ‘Even a fool when he keeps his mouth shut is wise,’ but it comes from the Bible, so it can be cast off as being too quote religious. Make something religious and people don’t have to deal with it, they can say it’s irrelevant. ‘Repent, the Kingdom of God is at hand.’ That scares the shit out of people. They’d like to avoid that. Tell that to someone and you become their enemy. 

There does come a time, though, when you have to face facts and the truth is true whether you wanna believe it or not, it does not need you to make it true…That lie about everybody having their own truth inside of them has done a lot of damage, made people crazy.

 

Did you ever hear that to conquer, you must repent first, fall down on your knees and beg for mercy? Does West Point teach that? I don’t know, I do know that God hates a proud look. It’s a messy situation. People are just parading around in disguises, wearing faces that don’t let you know what they think.”  

– Bob Dylan, Biograph

01. Bob Dylan – “Absolutely Sweet Marie” (1966)
02. Bob Dylan – “Caribbean Wind” (1981)
03. Bob Dylan – “Gotta Serve Somebody” (1979)
04. Bob Dylan – “Heart of Mine (Live)” (1981)
05. Bob Dylan – “Abandoned Love” (1975)
06. Bob Dylan – “Blind Willie McTell” (1983)
07. Bob Dylan and the Band – “All Along the Watchtower (Live)” (1974)
08. Bob Dylan – “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (1966)
09. Bob Dylan – “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)” (1978)
10. Bob Dylan – “Desolation Row (Alternate)” (1965)

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