0) Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

The melodic line is peacefull, the lyrics sad, the voice sublime. It’s somehow a teenager song in that perioud of self discouvering. At least it was for me.

1)Blowing in the Wind

The only song I really knew before looking over this guy’s lyrics and discouver how much of a genious he is. The song is s a cry for peace, love, and equality.

2)Bob Dylan- It ain`t me babe

A sweet and tender song dedicated to all the married people. Classic Dylan. He basically says, “Look honey, I’m not going to be your perfect man because I’m human. I’m going to be me. Get outta here.”

3)Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

It remins me of a romanian song that is probably inspired by it. It’s the kind of song you listen to when you go to sleep. He  uses folk images to depict a failed modern-day relationship. Dylan delivers the final blow with casually thrown out lyrics, delivered almost as an aside, saying to his former lover, “You just sort of wasted my precious time. Don’t think twice it’s alright.”

4)Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street

A lyrically-driven song directed to someone Dylan sees as a charlatan, someone he claims “would rather see me paralyzed.” “Why don’t you just come out once and scream it,” he asks, begging for a little truth, a removal of the mask of politics and politeness.

5)Like a Rolling Stone

9 mninutes! 9 minutes of nice lyrocs about going up and down in life!

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain’t no good
You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain’t it hard when you discover that
He really wasn’t where it’s at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How many songs with nice lyrics do you know ?

6) Desolation Row

A bamlade..sweet and slow and sleepy

7)Bob Dylan - Shelter From the Storm

This is Bob Dylan’s song about the redemptive power of women. Really good song. Fast paced and positive. Dylan sings, “Try imagining a place where it’s always safe and warm. Come in, she said I’ll give ya’ shelter from the storm.” I guess Dylan had time for at least one good relationship.

8)A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

A poetic one!

9)Tangled Up in Blue

A happy song about two loosers who become that as life drove them along. A good wrtitten storry, a realistic plot, a degree of ignorance absolutely adorable. Life is like that I suppose.

10) Hurricane

I like the rythm. It’s about two guys who entered a bar and starting shooting. You would’t guess it from the instrumantal music.

11) Not Dark Yet

Another balade. Haunting and heartbreaking. Dylan ponders mortality, and if anything is still worth living for here. So it’s chilling to hear him croak in his tortured voice: “I just don’t see why I should even care/It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there.”

12) Just Like A Woman

Just 4 the lyrics

“You fake just like a woman, you make love just like a woman, you ache just like a woman, but you break just like a little girl.”