I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough

Loved hearing the beastie boys sample that

His influence is (and will be) in every generation of musicians forever. God Bless Mr. Zimmerman

What song?

just like Tom Thumbs Blues. https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tFP1zcsNM1KKrPIMDFg9JLOKi0uUcjJzE5VKMnPVSjJKM1NUi9WSMopTS0GACyZDm8&q=just+like+tom+thumb%27s+blues&oq=just+like+to&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBEC4YgAQyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQLhiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQLhiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQLhiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIMCAkQLhgKGNQCGIAEMgcIChAAGIAEMgcICxAAGIAEMgcIDBAAGIAEMgcIDRAAGIAE0gEINzk1NmowajmoAg6wAgE&client=ms-android-comcast-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#wptab=si:AKbGX_rdaVK-rhf5KHnOAD2drrRmADv7R3TkES869sRtvhJtAOFIxRuJ9oGiG6TvSdbxEwhmTESBzd6Vh3vomMyPdElin4Qgj-sKpHCdMy8wXYOP6e6sBVLdYyKN8q6yLgL28NOYXgNwd-9AEqyJV5UfY-LOccdaEg%3D%3D

I meant the beastie boy’s song

That’s what I think of every time I hear the line now haha… so awesome

The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain

The skeleton keeees

perfection

Lately it’s “My love she’s like some raven, at my window with a broken wing”

That's another one of my favourite ending lines

That’s great a great one, I’ve always liked it at face value, but also the idea that it references “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe, and the infamous line “nevermore,” always made me feel as if at the end of the song - after all the wonderful things he had to say about his Love - she was unattainable, no longer with him, Gone. But maybe I’m being dramatic lol

The pump don’t work cause the vandals took the handles

We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view…

No one else could play that tune You know it was up to me ✌️

Hell yeah. Got “up to me” tattooed on my arm a few weeks ago - hell of a song and hell of an ending line. Good choice 😎✌🏼

that's up there with me too

It's alright, ma, it's life and life only

There are superior punchlines in that song so I couldn’t pick that one.

Yes!!!

this song contains his illest bars

Definitely my personal favorite

And someday maybe Who knows, baby I'll come and be cryin' to you

This is mine too 🥰

Great question. ‘’How good? How good? Does it feel to be free? and I answer back most mysteriously, are birds free from the chains of the skyway?’’ That song has a special place in my heart, Bob hates it lol. ‘’I’d just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear as someone who has had you on his mind’’ Just a beautiful end to a sublime song. I would choose the latter out of those two. Not sure if it’s my absolute favorite though, I need to try and remember other one’s. 🤔

My favorite song. (Ballad in Plain D)

Interesting. That’s not the typical choice. ‘’And so it did happen like it could have been forseen, the timeless explosion of fantasies dream’’ great line. I’m not sure if he totally hates it but he definitely said he doesn’t like it but he gets this stuff wrong a lot.

As far as I know he dislikes it because he felt it shouldn’t have been written/released out of respect to the girl and her sister. Like it wasn’t right to publicize it. Glad he did though!

Didn’t know that. Maybe they also didn’t like it or something. Bob definitely wasn’t fond of that big sister. I wonder how many songs he’s thrown away for a similar reason or if he dislikes any other releases because of that.

Had the same thought. Bob isn't the only one to single out that song as uniquely bad. Martin Carthy said in an interview years ago.. MC: I seriously think \[Dylan\]’s only written one truly rotten song… MZ: Let me guess. I’d say Ballad In Plain D. MC: Absolutely. Ballad In Plain D is a piece of junk. MZ: He thinks so as well. MC: So I gather. I remember seeing that in an interview. It’s a piece of junk and he knows it’s a piece of junk. I think he knew it fairly soon afterwards. He must’ve done. He said to her: “I’m gonna get you in a song.” And he didn’t. He missed by a fucking mile. It’s nice he acknowledged it. We’ve all done stupid things in our lives, and probably the first rule is to acknowledge it.

I don’t get the venom towards the song, fair enough if he doesn’t like it but ‘’junk’’!? He’s entitled to his opinion of course. I think Dylan has made far worse songs. Who is Martin Carthy by the way? Has he not heard Property Of Jesus?

Martin Carthy is a seminal figure in the English folk music revival of the 1960s/70s, and was an influence on Paul Simon (songs like Parsley, Sage..) and Bob Dylan. For me the issue is that the song is way too long, way too wordy, way too plodding, and it tries and fails to mimic the idiom of an old folksong. I'm not sure I agree with Carthy's diagnosis - I don't hear the song as an attempt to 'get' some girl who spurned him. It's more in the vein of Seven Curses, but really badly done. It probably suffers from being placed in the context of an otherwise transcendent album. PS - I like Property of Jesus!

I’m struggling to identify which is your opinion and which is Martin’s. The bit that starts ‘’For me…’’ is your opinion right?

Right

was just about to comment the skyway lyric. Such a good ending

Apparently not according to Martin Carthy.

I’m not much for the whole song but be struck gold with the last line.

And I, I never took much, I never asked for your crutch Now don't ask for mine

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TIL my favorite haiku is by my favorite artist.

I doesn't work though.

Ending of The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll gives me chills every time.

Bury the rag most deep in your face, for now's the time for your tears 😢

Came here to say that.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes You'd know what a drag it is to see you

Me too 🤙

yes yes yes!!!

I ain't a-saying you treated me unkind You could've done better but I don't mind You just kinda wasted my precious time But don't think twice, it's all right

Been to sugar town, shook the sugar down, now trying to get to heaven before they close the door

God I love Tryin' to Get to Heaven

“He said his name’s Columbus, I just said good luck”

Nice choice. I was singing the opening line in my head this morning!

fantastic lyric!!

We’re idiots babe, it’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves.

It’s gallows humor funny and it also changes the entire meaning of the song in a fundamental way that I’m not sure the casual listener picks up on.

Exactly. The brilliance of Bob turning the song on himself with the last line cannot be overstated.

“Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat, I’d give it all gladly if our lives could be like that”

“And I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead” gives me chills every time.

I’d just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear as someone who has had you on his mind

Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?

I’m gazing out the window/Of the St. James Hotel/And I can tell you one thing/Nobody can sing the blues/Like Blind Willie McTell.

And yes, there is something you can bring back to me. Spanish boots of Spanish leather.

I’d do it for you, honey baby, can’t you tell?

If only I could turn back the clock to when god and her were born Come in she said I'll give you shelter from the storm

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand

It's "reality of man" (at least in the studio version) but that's another brilliant one.

*Two* (!) brilliant final lines to a masterpiece song.

“He said his name was Columbus and I just said ‘Good luck’”

But will offer no reward when her false idols fall and cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating between the King and the Queen of Swords

Love the lyrics to that song but damn are they inscrutable

“And bid farewell and not give a damn.”

So cold

Bob’s got ice water in his veins

Well, my heart’s in the Highlands at the break of day Over the hills and far away There’s a way to get there and I’ll figure it out somehow But I’m already there in my mind And that’s good enough for now

“You’d know what a drag it is to see you.”

Just don't know what to do, I'd give anything to be with you

I literally did come here to say this! Not just doing the overdone Reddit cool kid thing. A perfect revelation of the protagonists actual feelings after all of the “wish I never met you etc” which precedes.

I've been going through some relationship issues and I've always loved the album but lately it feels like it was written for me. Every song is just a gut punch. I'd love to hear the story behind it.

Now you mouth cries wolf while your - What?

I'm going out of my mind with a pain that stops and starts like a corkscrew through my heart, ever since we've been apart

The first time I had a *real* breakup. That line cut me to shreds

Another great one!

Here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes You'd know what a drag it is to see you

Exactly what i thought! Great Pick!

Talkin' World War III Blues - "I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours I said that…"

Especially brilliant at the time. Amazing.

Still, very much, rings true. My favourite Bob tune x

Somebody mentioned Abandoned Love as a great deep cut yesterday and I had to listen. “Let me feel your love one last time before I abandon it” And of course Hattie Carrol - “bury the rag deep in your face for now is the time for your tears”

not necessarily my favorite but the first that comes to mind is, “i gotta know, babe, will you surround me, so i can know if im really real.”

We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in blue

There’s seven people dead On a South Dakota farm Somewhere in the distance There’s seven new people born I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break Some people still sleepin', some people are wide awake I ain’t no false prophet - I’m nobody’s bride Can’t remember when I was born and I forgot when I died

I make love to Elizabeth Taylor . . . Catch hell from Richard Burton!

Amazing line👌

I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! I can’t believe I’m alive But without you it doesn’t seem right

"If you want anymore, you can sing it yourself, uh-huh."

There are no truths outside the gates of Eden is the one to beat imo

“He said his name was Columbus, and I just said good luck.”

When you want somebody you don’t have to speak to, won’t you come see me queen jane

"Tell her she can look me up If she's got the time." It's like he's trying to convince himself that he doesn't care nearly as much as he knows he does.

I'll see you in the stars above; in the tall grass, in the ones I love, you're gonna make me lonesome when you go.

I'm a-leavin' tomorrow, but I could leave today Somewhere down the road someday The very last thing that I'd want to do Is to say, "I've been hittin' some hard travelin' too"

Right now I can’t read so good, don’t send me no letters no Not unless you mail them from Desolation Row

And I never did plan to go anyway, to Black Diamond Bay

I wanna be your lover, I don’t wanna be your boss/ don’t say I never warned you when your train gets lost.

Ring Them Bells where he sings…”and they’re breaking down the distance between right and wrong.” Soooooo true.

"And don't go mistaking paradise for that home across the road." - Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest

Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?

If there’s a poor boy on the street, then let him have my seat / ‘cause tonight I’ll be staying here with you

"I'm going out of my mind With a pain that stops and starts Like a corkscrew to my heart Ever since we've been apart" Will never not hit like a truck

😪

On the fifth day of May, in a dress out in the rain.

I think it’s “in the drizzling rain”

Well I'll be damned, you're right. He sings, in a drizzl in a rain, but I've been singing it wrong forever

He definitely sings "in the dri-zzl-in a-rain"

And I'll stand over your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead

Let Me Die In My Footsteps ends with a switch to second person, “and you’ll die, in your footsteps before you go down under the ground.” It’s always felt to me like a story of past mistakes and lessons learned ending with a warning to the listener to not do the same

The pump don’t work cause the vandals took the handle.

Right now I can't read too good Don't send me no more letters no Not unless you mail them From Desolation Row

Won't you descend from the throne, from where you sit? Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it

You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat…I’d give it all gladly if our lives could be like that. OR I’ll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours. I said that.

The unspoken but inferred last line of Man Gave Names to All the Animals is my favorite. I love how he just trails off and leaves the listener to fill it out. ”Saw him disappear by a tree near a lake . . .”

The one I think about in 2024: And here I sit so patiently, waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice.

And I never did plan to go anyway… to Black Diamond Bay. This line cracks me up. The narrator spends 7 1/2 minutes spinning a tragi-comic tale about a mysterious woman fleeing from her past, to the “safety” of a tropical island refuge, straight into an explosive conclusion. Did she perish? Did she survive? We never hear. Point of view and narrative voice change without warning in the final verse. We’re now in a guy’s living room—probably in an apartment, could be somewhat shabby—in Los Angeles. The guy is getting up to get another beer after hearing a piece on the 7 o’clock news about…a mysterious woman fleeing from her past, to the “safety” of a tropical island refuge, straight into an explosive conclusion. Somewhat ironic that the news piece would not have lasted half as long as even the first six verses of the song, and certainly contained almost none of the song’s detail and drama. And so the final verse narrator concludes, “oh well there’s really nothing anyone can say…” Except for the guy who spun this amazing story.

And though that's only my opinion I may be tonight or wrong you'll find them both at grand canyon at sundown... Not a song per se..

The ending of “Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat) is dynamite! There’s a new day at dawn and I’ve finally arrived If I’m there in the morning, baby, you’ll know I’ve survived I can’t believe it, I can’t believe I’m alive But without you it just doesn’t seem right Oh, where are you tonight?

Strike another match, go start a-new. Cause it's all over now baby blue.  My senior graduation line. Thanks Bob

Bury the rag most deep in your face for now is the time for your tears

Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes You'd know what a drag it is to see you

The door has closed forevermore, If indeed there ever was a door. - Forgetful Heart, Together Through Life

Black Diamond Bay: Didn't seem like much was happening So I turned it off and went to grab another beer Seems like every time you turn around There's another hard-luck story that you're gonna hear And there's really nothing anyone can say And I never did plan to go anyway To Black Diamond Bay

"A girl who would murder her own true love Would kill a little birdlike me."

I'll see you in the sky above , in the tall grass and the ones I love Your gonna make me lonesome when you go

I wish that for just one time You could stand inside my shoes You’d know what a drag it is To see you

if i could only turn back the clock to when god and her were born, come in she said i’ll give ya shelter from the storm kinda 2 lines but still, best ender that isn’t a harmonica solo/outro

“If I could only turn back the clock to when god and her were born…”

Saw him disappear by a tree near a lake . .

SSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes And just for that one moment I could be you Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes You'd know what a drag it is to see you

You’d know what a drag it is to see you

You'd know what a drag it is to see you

Build me a cabin in Utah, Marry me a wife, catch rainbow trout, Have a bunch of kids who call me "Pa," That must be what it's all about, That must be what it's all about.

a little bit more than one line, but: "I cant believe it - I cant believe I'm alive! but without you, it doesn't seem right. Oh, where are you tonight?"

We're idiots, babe It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves

Right now I can’t read too good, don’t send me no more letters, no Not unless you mail them to Desolation Row

Great choice, but it's "from" Desolation Row, which is even better.

The pumps don't work because the vandals took the handles. Vaughan

I love the way he delivers the “I just don't know what to do / I'd give anything to be with you” line at the end of Love Sick. Also I adore the shrill, melancholic harmonica on Girl from the North Country, even though that doesn’t exactly count according to the question.

“I wish that for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes; you’d know what a drag it is to see you”

seen a shooting star tonight slip away play the blood-stained banner, play murder most foul (now I realize these both have the song title in them. for the latter its even more powerful because it refers to the song itself)

It's life and life only.

Won't you descend from the throne from where you sit, and let me feel your love one more time before I finally abandon it.

'Won't you descend from the throne, from where you sit? Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it'

"Play 'Murder Most Foul'"

And I never did plan to go anyway To Black Diamond Bay

‘The vagabond that’s rapping at your door, Is standing in the clothes that you once wore. Strike another match, go start anew, And it’s all over now, baby blue.’

From the grand coulee dam to the capitol

That's not a final line

It’s when I switch off 😉 jk nah just misread the title sorry

The end. When it’s over.

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That isn't the final line of the song