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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking - Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for literature
Way too cool
https://www.theguardian.com/books/live/2016/oct/13/nobel-prize-in-literature-2016-liveblog
And the winner is...
Bob Dylan for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.
eShirl
(18,494 posts)malaise
(269,063 posts)I am thrilled
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)"My weariness amazes me
I'm branded on my feet
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreamin'..."
malaise
(269,063 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)you picked several others, you'd still be right.
I've always thought Empire Burlesque was underrated. And I love Desire.
"I'd like to spend some time in Mozambique..."
Buns_of_Fire
(17,183 posts)you can just make up new ones on the fly. Just remember to never end a line with "orange".
malaise
(269,063 posts)gademocrat7
(10,660 posts)Amazing man. Been enjoying his music for years.
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)of uncles and aunts who warned me against popular music when I was a kid.
They wouldn't have cared for this Nobel announcement this morning one bit.
And they would be just as wrong this morning as they were long ago.
Warm congratulations to Bob Dylan.
malaise
(269,063 posts)who was bawling about today's music. I asked her if she remembers her parents and grandparents views on our music.
Dylan doesn't really care about these things but I'm happy for him. He has written great lyrics.
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)strain of life early on and never looked back.
A friend of mine from a while back once described Dylan as seeming to be constantly someplace that nobody else happened to be.
And yes, those lyrics. Damn.
malaise
(269,063 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)who follow music very carefully who put this one way high on their list of all-time compositions.
malaise
(269,063 posts)"Like A Rolling Stone"
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you ?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall."
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.
How does it feel?
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street
And now you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel?
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.
How does it feel?
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're all drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)the application to Trump of this passage:
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Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.
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malaise
(269,063 posts)et al as well.
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)to Katrina Pierson and her bullet necklace."
malaise
(269,063 posts)Choking with laughter
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Next thing you know we will be in a shooting war in Yemen with Iran.
Mad Libs 2016.
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)mcar
(42,334 posts)An inspired choice.
spanone
(135,846 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)jeffreyi
(1,943 posts)Gotta say it....Leonard Cohen
fishwax
(29,149 posts)It's been a tough couple of weeks for me ... but this news, somehow, lifts my spirits today.