 Genius Meanings
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Bob Dylan – It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
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With tight internal rhymes and surrealist imagery, “It’s Alright Ma” is the kind of talking blues Dylan made famous with the same album’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”.
The epic
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Fairport Convention – It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft
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Looking through the window / To see which way the wind blows / It seems as though a hurricane is due today / Sunny on the outside / Stormy on the inside / Stormy weather's always
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Bob Dylan – It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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[Verse 1] / Darkness at the break of noon / Shadows even the silver spoon / The handmade blade, the child's balloon / Eclipses both the sun and moon / To understand you know too
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Roger McGuinn – It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
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Darkness at the break of noon / Shadows even the silver spoon / The handmade blade, the child's balloon / Eclipses both the sun and moon / To understand you know too soon / There
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Paul Simon – A Simple Desultory Philippic
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[Intro] / A Simple Desultory Philippic / Or How I Was Lyndon Johnson’d Into Submission / [Verse 1] / I was Union Jacked, Kerouac'd / John Birched, stopped and searched / Rolling
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Bob Dylan – It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Live Versions
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See all of “It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)” by Bob Dylan’s live versions
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Kris Kristofferson – I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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Close your eyes, close the door / You don't have to worry any more / I'll be your baby tonight / Shut the light, shut the shade / You don't have to be afraid / I'll be your baby
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Simon & Garfunkel – A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)
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“A Simple Desultory Phillipic” is a parody of Bob Dylan, Paul Simon’s main competitor at the time.
Simon imitates his musical style (mixing electric and acoustic guitars backed by
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Eric Clapton – Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
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Ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe / It don't matter anyhow / Ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe / If you don't know by now / When your rooster crows at the break of
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Bob Dylan (Ft. Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Neil Young, Roger McGuinn & Tom Petty) – My Back Pages (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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[Roger McGuinn: Verse] / Crimson flames tied through my ears / Rolling high and mighty traps / Pounced with fire on flaming roads / Using ideas as my maps / “We’ll meet on edges
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Bob Dylan – Political World
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[Verse 1] / We live in a political world / Love don’t have any place / We’re living in times where men commit crimes / And crime don’t have a face / [Verse 2] / We live in a
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Chrissie Hynde – I Shall Be Released
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They say everything can be replaced / Yet every distance is not near / So I remember every face / Of every man that put me here / I see my light come shinin' / From the west unto
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Johnny Cash (Ft. June Carter Cash) – It Ain't Me, Babe (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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Go away from my window / Leave at your own chosen speed / I'm not the one you want, babe / I'm not the one you need / You say you're looking for someone / Who is never weak, but
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Neil Young – All Along The Watchtower (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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[Spoken] / This song's for you, Bob! Thanks for havin' Bob-fest! / "There must be some way out of here" / Said the joker to the thief / "There's too much confusion / I can't get
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The Dismemberment Plan – Back and Forth
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Travis Morrison has said that the verse structure of this song was based off of “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” by Bob Dylan
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Public Enemy – The Long and Whining Road
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Littered with many references to Bob Dylan, Chuck D gives a recollection of Public Enemy’s then-twenty year history in hip-hop, rephrasing The Beatles “The Long And Winding Road
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Richie Havens – Just Like A Woman (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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[Verse] / Nobody feels any pain / Tonight as I stand inside the rain / Everybody knows that baby’s got new clothes / Lately I see her ribbons and her bows / And the problems as
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – License to Kill
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Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please / And if things don't change soon, he will / Oh, man has invented his doom / First step was touching the moon
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Ron Wood – Seven Days (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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Seven days, seven more days she'll be comin' / I'll be waiting at the station for her to arrive / Seven more days, all I gotta do is survive / She been gone ever since I been a
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Bob Dylan – Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
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When Dylan performed “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” for the first time at the Gaslight Cafe in October 1962, Suze Rotolo – his girlfriend at the time – had already been taking
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Roger McGuinn – Mr. Tambourine Man
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Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me / I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to / Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me / In the jingle jangle morning I'll
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
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Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good / They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would / They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home / Then they'll stone ya
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Tracy Chapman – The Times They Are A-Changin'
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Come gather 'round people / Wherever you roam / And admit that the waters / Around you have grown / And accept it that soon / You'll be drenched to the bone / If your time to you
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John Mellencamp – Like a Rolling Stone
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Once upon a time you dressed so fine / Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you? / People'd call, say, "Doll, you're bound to fall" / You thought they were all kiddin' you
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George Harrison – Absolutely Sweet Marie
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(Can you handle another guitar hero? / Let me give you a little clue: / Hallelujah, Hare Krishna, Yeah yeah yeah ! / George Harrison!) / Well, your railroad gate, you know I just
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Bob Dylan – Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (Live at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan - February/March 1978)
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It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe / It don’t matter, anyhow / An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe / If you don’t know by now / When your rooster crows at the
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Mary Chapin Carpenter (Ft. Rosanne Cash & Shawn Colvin) – You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
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[Verse 1: Mary Chapin Carpenter] / Clouds so swift / Rain won't lift / Gate won't close / Railings froze / Get your mind off wintertime / 'Cause you ain't goin' nowhere / [Chorus
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Bob Dylan – Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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Mama take this badge off of me / I can't use it anymore / It's getting dark, too dark to see / Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door / Knock knock knockin' on heaven's door
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Bob Dylan & The Band – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door [Before the Flood]
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Mama, take this badge off of me / I can’t use it anymore / It’s getting dark, too dark to see / Feel like I’m knockin' on heaven’s door / Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven’s door
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Genius Lists – Songs of Protest and Politics
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Political and protest songs have a long history in music, and some of them are great music as well as political commentary or plea for social change.
This list covers all music
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Bob Dylan & The Band – Blowin’ in the Wind [Before the Flood]
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How many roads must a man walk down / Before you call him a man? / Yes, ’n’ how many seas must a white dove sail / Before she sleeps in the sand? / Yes, ’n’ how many times must the
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Bob Dylan & The Band – Lay Lady Lay [Before the Flood]
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[Verse 1] / Lay, lady, lay / Lay across my big brass bed / Lay, lady, lay / Lay across my big brass bed / Whatever colors you have in your mind / I’ll show them to you and you’ll
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Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Live at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan - February 28, 1978)
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[Verse 1] / Come gather 'round people, wherever you roam / And admit that the waters around you have grown / And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone / If your time
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