My love she speaks like silence
Without ideals or violence
She doesn’t have to say she’s faithful
Yet she’s true, like ice, like fire
People carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love she laughs like the flowers
Valentines can’t buy her
Continue reading May 8: Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero/No Limit, Savoy Hotel, London 1965 (Video)
They say ev’rything can be replaced
Yet ev’ry distance is not near
So I remember ev’ry face
Of ev’ry man who put me here
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
Continue reading March 31: Bob Dylan & Elvis Costello: I Shall Be Released, London – 1995 (video)
If you see her, say hello
She might be in Tangier
She left here last early spring
Is living there I hear
Of war and peace the truth just twists
Its curfew gull just glides
Upon four-legged forest clouds
The cowboy angel rides
With his candle lit into the sun
Though its glow is waxed in black
All except when ’neath the trees of Eden
What good am I if I’m like all the rest
If I just turn away, when I see how you’re dressed
If I shut myself off so I can’t hear you cry
What good am I?What good am I if I know and don’t do
If I see and don’t say, if I look right through you
If I turn a deaf ear to the thunderin’ sky
What good am I?
This is really a wonderful “What Good Am I ?”
Continue reading Feb 4: Bob Dylan performing What Good Am I ? @ Hammersmith, London, England – 1990