# Post your favorite Bob Dylan lyric here **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-bob-dylan-lyric-here/768472 "2016-10-13T23:01:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-bob-dylan-lyric-here/768472/61 "2016-10-16T20:14:41Z")
From a Dylan song I’ve loved since I was 8 or so. “At dawn, my lover comes to me And tells me of her dreams, With no attempts to shovel a glimpse Into the ditch of what each one means. At times, I think there are no words But these to tell what’s true. And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.” I don’t understand the lyrics to that song any better than I did 47 years ago, but I love it anyway. As this last verse suggests, sometimes a song is like a dream- we have to appreciate its images for what they are, without trying to impose some kind of meaning on them. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-bob-dylan-lyric-here/768472/62 "2016-10-16T22:14:22Z")
An obscure one I’ve always loved from “Open the Door, Homer:” “Take care of all your memories” Said my friend, Mick “For you cannot relive them And remember when you’re out there Tryin’ to heal the sick That you must always First forgive them” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-bob-dylan-lyric-here/768472/63 "2016-10-16T23:41:16Z")
Louise, she’s all right, she’s just near She’s delicate and seems like the mirror But she just makes it all too concise and too clear That Johanna’s not here. Do we all have a Johanna, a path not taken, now overgrown with regret? Or am I a depressed, old romantic? ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-bob-dylan-lyric-here/768472/64 "2016-10-17T00:31:02Z")
I was just wondering, **chappachula** , if reading through this thread helped you “get it” or if \*\*EinsteinsHund \*\*'s quote in post 38 helped at all? Another thing that might be interesting to you would be to read some of the poetry that has won the Nobel prize in the past. For example, Rudyard Kipling or Pablo Neruda. If you read some of that and then read through this thread I think it might help you to see that yes this is worthy of a Nobel prize. (Poetry is a little less linear than you might be expecting for a Nobel prize, maybe? or more topical?) ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-bob-dylan-lyric-here/768472/65 "2016-10-17T00:41:07Z")
“She can take the dark out of the night time, and paint the day time black”. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-bob-dylan-lyric-here/768472/66 "2016-10-17T01:06:29Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > She’s delicate and seems like the mirror FTR, from album to CD and listening with pretty good earplugs, and despite that I quoted the published lyric from his own damned website, on the recording he says “she seems like veneer,” a delicate and beautiful wood product. (Shrug) Bob’s a Gemini and hard to keep on task. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-bob-dylan-lyric-here/768472/67 "2016-10-17T01:32:23Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > FTR, from album to CD and listening with pretty good earplugs, and despite that I quoted the published lyric from his own damned website, on the recording he says “she seems like veneer,” a delicate and beautiful wood product. I thought you were going to go with the “Vermeer” interpretation (where Johanna ≈ Johannes). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-bob-dylan-lyric-here/768472/68 "2016-10-17T01:49:23Z")
Nah, Bob’s from Minnesota. We love our wood. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if he used Vermeer in concert. He’s mercurial. ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-bob-dylan-lyric-here/768472/69 "2016-10-17T03:24:50Z")
[https://www.google.com/search?q=anita+ekberg&oq=anita+ek&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.3095j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=bob+dylan+i+shall+be+free+lyrics](https://www.google.com/search?q=anita+ekberg&oq=anita+ek&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.3095j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=bob+dylan+i+shall+be+free+lyrics) Well, my telephone rang it would not stop It’s President Kennedy callin’ me up He said, My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow? I said my friend, John, Brigitte Bardot Anita Ekberg Sophia Loren Country’ll grow [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-bob-dylan-lyric-here/768472.md?page=3)