One strike of lightning is all that I need
And a blast of ‘lectricity that runs at top speed
Show me your ribs - I’ll stick in the knife
I’m gonna jump start my creation to life
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Song: “My Own Version of You”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2021-11-02
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-own-version-of-you/
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You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees
But you will wind up peeking through her keyhole
Down upon your knees
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Song: “She Belongs to Me”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1965-03-27
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/she-belongs-me/
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I don’t want to fake you out
Take or shake or forsake you out
I ain’t lookin’ for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
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Song: “All I Really Want to Do”
Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan
First played: 1964-07-26
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/all-i-really-want-do/
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When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
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Song: “When You Gonna Wake Up?”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-you-gonna-wake/
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A GLORIOUS MEDITATION ON BLUE, and on the blues, and on the centrality of the color, the mood, and the music to all of African and diaspora life, but particularly to Black life in the US. Elegant, eloquent, erudite, yet profoundly direct. SOLID A
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-in-blues-imani-perry/1145525940?ean=9780062977397
I’m gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell
Like Liberace - like St. John the Apostle
Play every number that I can play
I’ll see you baby on Judgement Day
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Song: “My Own Version of You”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2021-11-02
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-own-version-of-you/
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Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring
The wind howls like a hammer
The night blows cold and rainy
My love she’s like some raven
At my window with a broken wing
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Song: “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1965-02-12
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/love-minus-zero-no-limit/
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40 years ago this week, "Forever Man" by #EricClapton entered the #Top40 at 40. It peaked at 26 on 27 Apr 1985. The camera that falls over at 2:45 in the video was not intentional, but they left it in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gDvR1sZ6I4 #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only
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Song: “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1964-09-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding/
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Yet he walked right into the clubhouse of his lifelong deadly foe
Emptied out the register, said, “Tell ’em it was Crazy Joe”
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Song: “Joey”
Album: Desire
First played: 1987-07-04
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/joey/
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I don’t mean trouble, please don’t put me down or get upset
I am not pleadin’ or sayin’, “I can’t forget”
I do not walk the floor bowed down an’ bent, but yet
Mama, you been on my mind
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Song: “Mama, You Been On My Mind”
Album: The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991
First played: 1964-08-08
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mama-you-been-my-mind/
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Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of me
If I was still the same
If I ever became what you wanted me to be
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Song: “Shooting Star”
Album: Oh Mercy
First played: 1990-06-09
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shooting-star/
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Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you
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Song: “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1964-09-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding/
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The Cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies
I’m preachin’ the Word of God
I’m puttin’ out your eyes
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Song: “High Water (For Charley Patton)”
Album: Love and Theft
First played: 2001-10-19
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/high-water-charley-patton/
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If I ever saw you coming I don’t know what I would do
I’d like to think I could control myself, but it isn’t true
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Song: “Can’t Wait”
Album: Time out of Mind
First played: 1997-10-24
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cant-wait/
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40 years ago this week, "Nightshift" by #Commodores entered the #Top10 at 10. It peaked at 3 on 20 Apr 1985. This was their first hit after Lionel Richie left the group. The song pays tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson, who had both died the previous year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrkEDe6Ljqs #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
No, and I ain’t lookin’ to fight with you
Frighten you or tighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
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Song: “All I Really Want to Do”
Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan
First played: 1964-07-26
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/all-i-really-want-do/
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When they let him out in ’71 he’d lost a little weight
But he dressed like Jimmy Cagney and I swear he did look great
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Song: “Joey”
Album: Desire
First played: 1987-07-04
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/joey/
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You won’t find any happiness here - no happiness or joy
Go back to the gutter and try your luck - find you some nice young pretty boy
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Song: “Crossing the Rubicon”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2022-03-03
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/crossing-the-rubicon/
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Broken cutters, broken saws
Broken buckles, broken laws
Broken bodies, broken bones
Broken voices on broken phones
Take a deep breath, feel like you’re chokin'
Everything is broken
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Song: “Everything Is Broken”
Album: Oh Mercy
First played: 1989-10-10
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/everything-broken/
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