Genius Meanings
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Bob Dylan – Jokerman
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“Jokerman” is the first track from Dylan’s 1983 album Infidels. This album is often seen as Dylan’s return to secular music after a conversion to Christianity and three gospel
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Bob Dylan – Jokerman (Reggae Remix by Doctor Dread)
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[Verse 1] / Standing on the waters casting your bread / While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing / Distant ships sailing into the mist / You were born with a snake
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Bob Dylan – Jokerman (Infidels Alternate Take)
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[Verse 1] / Standing on the waters casting your bread / While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing / Distant ships sailing into the mist / You were born with a snake
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Bob Dylan – Julius and Ethel (Infidels Outtake)
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“Julius and Ethel” is a song that Bob Dylan wrote in 1983 for his album, Infidels but left it off the final version of the album. The song is about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Bob Dylan – Cold, Cold Heart (Shot of Love Outtake)
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I tried so hard, my dear, to show that you're my every dream / Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme / A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart
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Bob Dylan – Too Late (Band Version - Infidels Outtake)
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[Verse 1] / Well, wether there was a murder I don't know I wasn't there / I was busy visiting a friend in jail / There were just two women on the scene at the time / Neither one of
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Bob Dylan – Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) (Rehearsal)
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Señor, señor, do you know where we’re headin’? / Lincoln County Road or Armageddon? / Seems like I been down this way before / Is there any truth in that, señor? / Señor, señor, do
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Bob Dylan – Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight
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Amidst the wider topics on Infidels, the closing track is the album’s love song. It depicts a relationship talk involving life choices, lack of communication and jealousy – until
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Bob Dylan – Death Is Not the End (Full Version - Infidels Outtake
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[Verse 1] / When you’re sad and when you’re lonely / And you haven’t got a friend / Just remember that death is not the end / And all that you’ve held sacred / Falls down and does
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Bob Dylan – License to Kill
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[Verse 1] / Man thinks because 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
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Bob Dylan – Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love) (Empire Burlesque Alternate Take)
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[Verse 1] / Well, I had to move fast / And I couldn’t with you around my neck / I said I’d send for you and I did / What did you expect? / My hands are sweating / And we haven’t
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Bob Dylan – Abraham, Martin, and John (Rehearsal)
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[Verse 1] / Anybody here seen my old friend Abraham? / Can you tell me where he's gone? / He freed a lot of people but it seems the good they die young / You know I just looked
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Bob Dylan – Man of Peace
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[Verse 1] / Look out your window, baby, there’s a scene you’d like to catch / The band is playing “Dixie,” a man got his hand outstretched / Could be the Führer / Could be the
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Bob Dylan – Neighborhood Bully
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The song was written after israel bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor (“Operation Opera”) and was condemned all around the world.
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Bob Dylan – Tell Me (Infidels Outtake)
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[Verse 1] / Tell me / Tell me, I’ve got to know / Tell me / Tell me before I go / Does that flame still burn, does that fire still glow? / Or has it died out and melted like the
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Bob Dylan – Things Have Changed
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Director Curtis Hanson selected Dylan to write this song for his 2000 film, Wonder Boys. Though the film was a flop, the track won “Best Original Song” at the Oscars.
Curtis said
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Bob Dylan – I and I
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[Verse 1] / Been so long since a strange woman has slept in my bed / Look how sweet she sleeps, how free must be her dreams / In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or
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Bob Dylan – Sweetheart Like You
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[Verse 1] / Well, the pressure’s down, the boss ain't here / He gone North, for a while / They say that vanity got the best of him / But he sure left here in style / By the way
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Bob Dylan – Dignity
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The song “Dignity” was recorded during the sessions for Dylan’s album Oh Mercy (1989), but was not released until 1994, when it was put on Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume 3 and
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Bob Dylan – Straight A's In Love (Empire Burlesque Outtake)
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You ain’t so good in arithmetic, baby / You don’t know how to count / When it comes to spending money / It’s never the right amount / But baby, you know, two and two is four / Baby
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Bob Dylan – Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground (Infidels Outtake
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If you had not have fallen then I would not have found you / Angel flying too close to the ground / And I patched up your broken wing and hung around a while / Trying to keep your
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Bob Dylan – False Prophet
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[Verse 1] / Another day that don't end / Another ship goin' out / Another day of anger, bitterness, and doubt / I know how it happened / I saw it begin / I opened my heart to the
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Bob Dylan – Blind Willie McTell (Take 5) [Infidels Outtake]
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[Verse 1] / I seen the arrow on the doorpost / Saying, “This land is condemned / All the way from New Orleans / To new Jerusalem” / Well, I traveled through East Texas / Where many
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David Duchovny – Positively Madison Avenue
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This song was inspired by the Chrysler Superbowl Ad in which Bob Dylan appeared.
“It’s a song I wrote after watching the Super Bowl a couple years ago.” Duchovny told Rolling
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Bob Dylan – You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
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[Verse 1] / Clouds so swift, the rain falling in / Gonna see a movie called Gunga Din / Pack up your money, pull up your tent, McGuinn / You ain't goin' nowhere / [Chorus] / Ooh-
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Bob Dylan – Fur Slippers (Shot of Love Outtake)
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[Intro] / Ain't got no fur slippers now / [Verse 1] / Six o'clock in the evening, I feel so low / Ain’t got not girlfriend ain’t got no place to go / Even took my fur slippers away
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Bob Dylan – We Just Disagree (Rehearsal)
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[Verse 1] / Been away, haven't seen you in a while / How've you been, have you changed your style? / And do you think that we've grown up differently? / Don't seem the same, seems
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Bob Dylan – Green, Green Grass of Home (Infidels Outtake)
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[Verse 1] / The old hometown looks the same / As I step down from the train / And there to meet me is my mama and papa / Down the road I look and there runs Mary / Hair of gold and
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Bob Dylan – Union Sundown
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[Verse 1] / Well, my shoes, they come from Singapore / My flashlight’s from Taiwan / My tablecloth’s from Malaysia / My belt buckle’s from the Amazon / You know, this shirt I wear
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Bob Dylan – Foot of Pride (Infidels Outtake)
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[Verse 1] / They say the wife got the husband drunk / But I don't know, I wasn't there, I was visiting a friend in jail / They sang “Danny Boy” at his funeral and the Lord’s Prayer
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Bob Dylan – This Was My Love (Infidels Outtake)
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Soft as a raindrop fresh as the sea / Warm as the sunshine shining on me / This was my love this was my love / Light was her laughter few were her tears / Gentle her beauty tender
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Bob Dylan – I and I (Reggae Remix by Doctor Dread)
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[Verse 1] / Been so long since a strange woman has slept in my bed / Look how sweet she sleeps, how free must be her dreams / In another lifetime, she must have owned the world, or
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Bob Dylan – A Couple More Years (Rehearsal)
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I've got a couple more years on you babe, and that's all / I've had more chances to fly, and more places to fall / And it ain't that I'm wiser, it's only that I've spent more time
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