dual personalities

I was inspired by my mother’s blog post (and a suggestion from my brother) to do a Bob Dylan lyrics quiz. Of course, it isn’t quite the same as movie quotes, but maybe it will inspire you to dig out the old Bob Dylan records/YouTube.

Bob is the best. Confounding the media for decades. A master of the rhyming dictionary. But you can also totally tell that the Holy Spirit is at work in him. Anyway, take a gander at these quotes and see which you can identify (most of them have spoiler alerts). I could obviously have a post that goes on and on and on…but I’ll resist the temptation slash save it for another day.

All the people we used to know

They’re an illusion to me now

Some are mathematicians

Some are carpenter’s wives

Don’t know how it all got started

I don’t what they do with their lives

But me, I’m still on the road

Heading for another joint

We always did feel the same

We just saw it from a different point of view

Tangled up in blue

Ahh princess on a steeple and all the pretty people

They’re all drinking, thinking that they’ve got it made

Exchanging all precious gifts

But you better take your diamond ring, you better pawn it babe

You used to be so amused

At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used

Go to him he calls you, you can’t refuse

When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose

You’re invisible now, you’ve got no secrets to conceal

I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea

Sometimes I turn, there’s someone there, other time it’s only me

I am hanging in the balance of a finished plan

Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand

Well, I try my best to be just like I am

But everybody wants you to be just like them

They say, “Sing while you slave” and I just get bored

Keep a clean nose

Watch the plain clothes

You don’t need a weather man

To know which way the wind blows

You may be a construction worker working on a home

You may be living in a mansion or you might live in a dome

You might own guns and you might even own tanks

You might be somebody’s landlord, you might even own banks

But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes

You’re gonna have to serve somebody

Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord

But you’re gonna have to serve somebody

Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted

Can’t help but wonder what’s happenin’ to my companions

Are they lost or are they found?

Have they counted the cost it’ll take to bring down

All their earthly principles they’re gonna have to abandon?

And take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind

Down the foggy ruins of time

Far past the frozen leaves

The haunted frightened trees

Out to the windy beach

Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky

With one hand waving free

Silhouetted by the sea

Circled by the circus sands

With all memory and fate

Driven deep beneath the waves

Let me forget about today until tomorrow

So long honey babe

Where I’m bound, I can’t tell

Goodbye is too good a word, babe

So I just say fare thee well

I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind

You could have done better but I don’t mind

You just kinda wasted my precious time

But don’t think twice, it’s all right