I’ll lift up my arms to the starry skies
And pray the fugitive’s prayer
I’m guessing tomorrow the sun will rise
I hope the final judgment’s fair
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Song: “Workingman’s Blues #2”
Album: Modern Times
First played: 2006-10-11
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/workingmans-blues-2/
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All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
All your reindeer armies, are all going home
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Song: “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1965-02-17
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-all-over-now-baby-blue/
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I like Blink-182. I’m rooting for them. However, it’s hard not to take “One More Time” and its ‘reunited and it feels so good’ vibe with a grain of salt given the precedent.
#OneMoreTime #Blink182 #Rock #Song #Lyrics #Analysis
https://songreading.wordpress.com/2025/04/12/one-more-time/
You ever seen a ghost? No
But you have heard of them
I hear your name
Ringing up and down the line
I’m saying it plain
These ties are strong enough to bind
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Song: “Spirit on the Water”
Album: Modern Times
First played: 2006-10-22
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/spirit-water/
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Oh! Good old-fashioned war!
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Song: “John Brown”
Album: MTV Unplugged
First played: 1962-10-15
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/john-brown/
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I’d forever talk to you
But soon my words
They would turn into a meaningless ring
For deep in my heart
I know there is no help I can bring
Everything passes
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Song: “To Ramona”
Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan
First played: 1964-07-26
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ramona/
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I ain’t lookin’ to compete with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you, classify you
Deny, defy or crucify you
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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Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously
But then, now again, not too many can be like you, fortunately
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Song: “Absolutely Sweet Marie”
Album: Blonde on Blonde
First played: 1988-06-07
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/absolutely-sweet-marie/
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You prayed to the Lord above
Oh please send you a friend
You prayed to the Lord above
Oh please send you a friend
Your empty pockets tell yuh
That you ain’t a-got no friend
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Song: “Ballad of Hollis Brown”
Album: The Times They Are A-Changin’
First played: 1962-09-22
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ballad-hollis-brown/
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And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn
“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”
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Song: “Shelter from the Storm”
Album: The Complete Budokan 1978
First played: 1976-04-18
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shelter-storm/
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“If my love was like a flower, would you plant it, would you grow it?” Selena Gomez asks in “Vulnerable.” I think I would grow it first, and then I would plant it.
#Vulnerable #SelenaGomez #Pop #Song #Lyrics #Analysis
https://songreading.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/vulnerable/
I’m here to create the new imperial empire
I’m going to do whatever circumstances require
I care so much for you—didn’t think that I could
I can’t tell my heart that you’re no good
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Song: “Honest with Me”
Album: Love and Theft
First played: 2001-10-05
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/honest-me/
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So much oppression
Can’t keep track of it no more
So much oppression
Can’t keep track of it no more
Sons becoming husbands to their mothers
And old men turning young daughters into whores
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Song: “Gonna Change My Way of Thinking”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gonna-change-my-way-thinking/
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An’ 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
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Song: “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”
Album: Blonde on Blonde
First played: 1976-04-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/stuck-inside-mobile-memphis-blues-again/
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I believe in you when winter turn to summer
I believe in you when white turn to black
I believe in you even though I be outnumbered
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Song: “I Believe in You”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-believe-you/
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Oh! Lord! Just like mine!
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Song: “John Brown”
Album: MTV Unplugged
First played: 1962-10-15
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/john-brown/
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He saw an animal that liked to growl
Big furry paws and he liked to howl
Great big furry back and furry hair
“Ah, think I’ll call it a bear”
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Song: “Man Gave Names to All the Animals”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/man-gave-names-all-animals/
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Temptation’s page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you’d just be one more
Person crying
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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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