Songs of Experience: A Bob Dylan Podcast

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19. Spirit On The Water with Caroline Schwarz (The Bob Dylan Fan Club)
Welcome to Songs of Experience: A Bob Dylan Podcast, where we explore the man and the music one song at a time. This episode Henry completes the set of Bob Dylan Fan Club founders with Caroline Schwarz, discussing Spirit On The Water from 2006's Modern Times.https://music.apple.com/us/album/spirit-on-the-water/187497036?i=187497259Spirit on the WaterWritten by: Bob DylanSpirit on the waterDarkness on the face of the deepI keep thinking about you babyI can’t hardly sleepI’m traveling by landTraveling through the dawn of dayYou’re always on my mindI can’t stay awayI’d forgotten about youThen you turned up againI always knewThat we were meant to be more than friendsWhen you are nearIt’s just as plain as it can beI’m wild about you, galYou ought to be a fool about meCan’t explainThe sources of this hidden painYou burned your way into my heartYou got the key to my brainI’ve been trampling through mudPraying to the powers aboveI’m sweating bloodYou got a face that begs for loveLife without youDoesn’t mean a thing to meIf I can’t have youI’ll throw my love into the deep blue seaSometimes I wonderWhy you can’t treat me rightYou do good all dayThen you do wrong all nightWhen you’re with meI’m a thousand times happier than I could ever sayWhat does it matterWhat price I payThey brag about your sugarBrag about it all over townPut some sugar in my bowlI feel like laying downI’m pale as a ghostHolding a blossom on a stemYou ever seen a ghost? NoBut you have heard of themI hear your nameRinging up and down the lineI’m saying it plainThese ties are strong enough to bindI been in a brawlNow I’m feeling the wallI’m going away babyI won’t be back ’til fallHigh on the hillYou can carry all my thoughts with youYou’ve numbed my willThis love could tear me in twoI wanna be with you in paradiseAnd it seems so unfairI can’t go back to paradise no moreI killed a man back thereYou think I’m over the hillYou think I’m past my primeLet me see what you gotWe can have a whoppin’ good time Follow @songsofbob, @henrybernstein.bsky.socialIf you would like to support hosting my podcasts, please check out my Patreon where for $5 I will give you a shout out on the podcast of your choice. Thank you to, Rob Kelly, Roberta Rakove, Matt Simonson, and Christopher Vanni. For $10, in addition to the shout-out I'll send you a surprise piece of Bob Dylan merch! Thank you to Kaitie Cerovec who is already enjoying her merch! I have a merch shop! Check out all sorts of fun Bob Dylan (and more) items! Thank you to Mark Godfrey, Linda Maultsby and Peter White over on Substack.Email us at [email protected]: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Substack.
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18. Things Have Changed with Liz Cantalamessa
Welcome to Songs of Experience: A Bob Dylan Podcast, where we explore the man and the music one song at a time. Henry welcomes writer, scholar, professor, front row warrior, fellow Swiftie and all around Bestie, Liz Cantalamessa to discuss Dylan's 2000, Oscar Winning song "Things Have Changed." Watch the Things Have Changed VideoFollow along with the lyrics here:Things Have ChangedWritten by: Bob DylanA worried man with a worried mindNo one in front of me and nothing behindThere’s a woman on my lap and she’s drinking champagneGot white skin, blood in my eyesI’m looking up into the sapphire-tinted skiesI’m well dressed, waiting on the last trainStanding on the gallows with my head in a nooseAny minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loosePeople are crazy and times are strangeI’m locked in tight, I’m out of rangeI used to care, but things have changedThis place ain’t doing me any goodI’m in the wrong town, I should be in HollywoodJust for a second there I thought I saw something moveGonna take dancing lessons, do the jitterbug ragAin’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in dragOnly a fool in here would think he’s got anything to proveLot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff tooDon’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing throughPeople are crazy and times are strangeI’m locked in tight, I’m out of rangeI used to care, but things have changedI’ve been walking forty miles of bad roadIf the Bible is right, the world will explodeI’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I canSome things are too hot to touchThe human mind can only stand so muchYou can’t win with a losing handFeel like falling in love with the first woman I meetPutting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the streetPeople are crazy and times are strangeI’m locked in tight, I’m out of rangeI used to care, but things have changedI hurt easy, I just don’t show itYou can hurt someone and not even know itThe next sixty seconds could be like an eternityGonna get low down, gonna fly highAll the truth in the world adds up to one big lieI’m in love with a woman who don’t even appeal to meMr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lakeI’m not that eager to make a mistakePeople are crazy and times are strangeI’m locked in tight, I’m out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed Follow @songsofbob, @henrybernstein.bsky.socialIf you would like to support hosting my podcasts, please check out my Patreon where for $5 I will give you a shout out on the podcast of your choice. Thank you to, Rob Kelly, Roberta Rakove, Matt Simonson, and Christopher Vanni. For $10, in addition to the shout-out I'll send you a surprise piece of Bob Dylan merch! Thank you to Kaitie Cerovec who is already enjoying her merch! I have a merch shop! Check out all sorts of fun Bob Dylan (and more) items! Thank you to Mark Godfrey, Linda Maultsby and Peter White over on Substack.Email us at [email protected]: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Substack.
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17. Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat) With Kait Runevitch (The Bob Dylan Fan Club)
Welcome to Songs of Experience: A Bob Dylan Podcast, where we explore the man and the music one song at a time. Henry welcomes dear friend and co-founder of The Bob Dylan Fan Club, Kait Runevitch to discuss 1978's Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat). Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)Written by: Bob DylanThere’s a long-distance train rolling through the rainTears on the letter I writeThere’s a woman I long to touch and I miss her so muchBut she’s drifting like a satelliteThere’s a neon light ablaze in this green smoky hazeLaughter down on Elizabeth StreetAnd a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stoneWhere she bathed in a stream of pure heatHer father would emphasize you got to be more than streetwiseBut he practiced what he preached from the heartA full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted to meThe time and the place that the trouble would startThere’s a babe in the arms of a woman in a rageAnd a longtime golden-haired stripper onstageAnd she winds back the clock and she turns back the pageOf a book that no one can writeOh, where are you tonight?The truth was obscure, too profound and too pureTo live it you have to explodeIn that last hour of need, we entirely agreedSacrifice was the code of the roadI left town at dawn, with Marcel and St. JohnStrong men belittled by doubtI couldn’t tell her what my private thoughts wereBut she had some way of finding them outHe took dead-center aim but he missed just the sameShe was waiting, putting flowers on the shelfShe could feel my despair as I climbed up her hairAnd discovered her invisible selfThere’s a lion in the road, there’s a demon escapedThere’s a million dreams gone, there’s a landscape being rapedAs her beauty fades and I watch her undrapeI won’t but then again, maybe I mightOh, if I could just find you tonightI fought with my twin, that enemy within’Til both of us fell by the wayHorseplay and disease is killing me by degreesWhile the law looks the other wayYour partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimesThe guy you were lovin’ couldn’t stay cleanIt felt outa place, my foot in his faceBut he should-a stayed where his money was greenI bit into the root of forbidden fruitWith the juice running down my legThen I dealt with your boss, who’d never known about lossAnd who always was too proud to begThere’s a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this roomAnd a pathway that leads up to the starsIf you don’t believe there’s a price for this sweet paradiseRemind me to show you the scarsThere’s a new day at dawn and I’ve finally arrivedIf I’m there in the morning, baby, you’ll know I’ve survivedI can’t believe it, I can’t believe I’m aliveBut without you it just doesn’t seem rightOh, where are you tonight? Follow @songsofbob, @henrybernstein.bsky.socialIf you would like to support hosting my podcasts, please check out my Patreon where for $5 I will give you a shout out on the podcast of your choice. Thank you to, Rob Kelly, Roberta Rakove, Matt Simonson, and Christopher Vanni. For $10, in addition to the shout-out I'll send you a surprise piece of Bob Dylan merch! Thank you to Kaitie Cerovec who is already enjoying her merch! I have a merch shop! Check out all sorts of fun Bob Dylan (and more) items! Thank you to Mark Godfrey, Linda Maultsby and Peter White over on Substack.Email us at [email protected]: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Substack.
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16. Pressing On with Roberta Rakove
Henry welcomes back Roberta Rakove (Ep. 3: The Man In Me) to talk about a highlight from 1980's Saved, "Pressing On." Listen to the song hereFollow along with the lyrics:Pressing OnWritten by: Bob DylanWell I’m pressing onYes, I’m pressing onWell I’m pressing onTo the higher calling of my LordMany try to stop me, shake me up in my mindSay, “Prove to me that He is Lord, show me a sign”What kind of sign they need when it all come from withinWhen what’s lost has been found, what’s to come has already been?Well I’m pressing onYes, I’m pressing onWell I’m pressing onTo the higher calling of my LordShake the dust off of your feet, don’t look backNothing now can hold you down, nothing that you lackTemptation’s not an easy thing, Adam given the devil reignBecause he sinned I got no choice, it run in my veinWell I’m pressing onYes, I’m pressing onWell I’m pressing onTo the higher calling of my LordCopyright © 1980 by Special Rider Music Follow @songsofbob, @henrybernstein.bsky.socialIf you would like to support hosting my podcasts, please check out my Patreon where for $5 I will give you a shout out on the podcast of your choice. Thank you to, Rob Kelly, Roberta Rakove, Matt Simonson, and Christopher Vanni. For $10, in addition to the shout-out I'll send you a surprise piece of Bob Dylan merch! Thank you to Kaitie Cerovec who is already enjoying her merch! I have a merch shop! Check out all sorts of fun Bob Dylan (and more) items! Thank you to Mark Godfrey, Linda Maultsby and Peter White over on Substack.Email us at [email protected]: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Substack.
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Bonus Episode: New Arrangement of All Along The Watchtower
Bob Dylan has debuted and perfected a new arrangement of a 56 year old song! This is a breakdown of the arrangement with chords and the little lick being played. I recommend checking out the video version so you can see what I'm doing, and see Bob!https://youtu.be/iTGCPR2OoXs Follow @songsofbob, @henrybernstein.bsky.socialIf you would like to support hosting my podcasts, please check out my Patreon where for $5 I will give you a shout out on the podcast of your choice. Thank you to, Rob Kelly, Roberta Rakove, Matt Simonson, and Christopher Vanni. For $10, in addition to the shout-out I'll send you a surprise piece of Bob Dylan merch! Thank you to Kaitie Cerovec who is already enjoying her merch! I have a merch shop! Check out all sorts of fun Bob Dylan (and more) items! Thank you to Mark Godfrey, Linda Maultsby and Peter White over on Substack.Email us at [email protected]: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Substack.
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