{"id":1671,"date":"2004-11-30T18:10:44","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T23:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2004-11-30T18:12:33","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T23:12:33","slug":"i-was-so-much-older-then-im-younger-than-that-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/11\/i-was-so-much-older-then-im-younger-than-that-now\/","title":{"rendered":"I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now."},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been over a month since we’ve had a post mentioning Bob Dylan<\/a>. I’ll happily fix that problem. Dylan is about as much poetry as I have the patience for. So for those Philistines among us who don’t sit around cooing over John Donne* poems, Dylan is, really, as good as it gets. Let me note a random sample of lyrics: <\/p>\n

I ain’t lookin’ to compete with you,
\nBeat or cheat or mistreat you,
\nSimplify you, classify you,
\nDeny, defy or crucify you.
\nAll I really want to do
\nIs, baby, be friends with you.<\/p>\n

____________<\/p>\n

Now I gotta friend who spends his life
\nStabbing my picture with a bowie-knife
\nDreams of strangling me with a scarf
\nWhen my name comes up he pretends to barf.
\nI’ve got a million friends.<\/p>\n

_______________<\/p>\n

I can’t feel you anymore, I can’t even touch the books you’ve read
\nEvery time I crawl past your door, I been wishin’ I was somebody else instead.
\nDown the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
\nI followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory
\nAnd all your ragin’ glory.<\/p>\n

I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I’m finally free,
\nI kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.
\nYou’ll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,
\nAnd I’ll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,
\nAnd it makes me feel so sorry.<\/p>\n

________________<\/p>\n

You’ve been with the professors
\nAnd they’ve all liked your looks
\nWith great lawyers you have
\nDiscussed lepers and crooks
\nYou’ve been through all of
\nF. Scott Fitzgerald’s books
\nYou’re very well read
\nIt’s well known<\/p>\n

__________________<\/p>\n

Well, you look so pretty in it
\nHoney, can I jump on it sometime?
\nYes, I just wanna see
\nIf it’s really that expensive kind
\nYou know it balances on your head
\nJust like a mattress balances
\nOn a bottle of wine
\nYour brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat<\/p>\n

______________________<\/p>\n

Let me ask you one question
\nIs your money that good
\nWill it buy you forgiveness
\nDo you think that it could
\nI think you will find
\nWhen your death takes its toll
\nAll the money you made
\nWill never buy back your soul<\/p>\n

__________________<\/p>\n

Feel free to add your own Dylan<\/a>, or Dylanesqe lyrical beauties. But don’t feel pressured, after all you’ll probably get another chance next month…<\/p>\n

* I like John Donne too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been over a month since we’ve had a post mentioning Bob Dylan. I’ll happily fix that problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-poetry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}