“You Ain't Goin' Nowhere”
Bob Dylan
Greatest Hits Vol. II – 1971
(originally recorded 1967 appearing on the Basement Tapes in 1975)
My toes have been sprinkled in the stream. Baptism by passivity. My stomach is full of bacon. My head is full of nothing and smoke. My ears are full of basement noise. The nonsense must overtake me – I can't wait. This new girl seems so full of names. Just like her, all these new friends die daily and are replaced with new ones that look and sound just like them. Spit yourselves back at me, rejuvenated! I'll only take the born again ones...and the ones before them. My appetite is reserved for the drunks, the cobblers, the dust, the racists, the “dogs that talk”, and the cherubim. Don't we all deserve worse than this? Thank you Demeter.
Dylan understands the nonsense (“Ghengis Khan and his brother Don”?). It makes him happy and arbitrary. It makes Happy's banjo sing like a child playing at jax. This version is just too wonderful.
The Byrds also did a great version.
2 comments:
Is that photo of Bob? He has a lot of faces.
Yea, that's him in Woodstock in '71, during the time (about 2-3 years) when he wore glasses without need.
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