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What? Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature !?!
- Thread starter coconutcurry
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hard rain
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
Well, that's the easiest question I've been asked in a long time!
"Everybody must get stoned"!
Should've won the Nobel Peace Prize decades ago.
Genghis Kush
Active member
Genghis Kush
Active member
Almost the only guy whose lyrics I actually listen to.
"Blood on the tracks" was the album ("album" LOL) that finally grabbed me, and was around the time the toking began in earnest. Hey, he did it for the Beatles too
You ever listen to townes van zandt ? He was a great lyricist and musician. The best next to Bob I think
"the pump don't work, 'cause the vandals took the handle"
looks as if Gordon Ball finally found it again...
looks as if Gordon Ball finally found it again...
coconutcurry
High
Interesting. Bob Dylan needed a week to acknowledge that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize and now any hint to the Nobel Prize was removed from his website. lol THIS is the Dylan I know.
Bob Dylan removes mention of Nobel Prize from website
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...es-nobel-prize-literature-win-removed-website
"Some fans have suggested Dylan should refuse the title of Nobel laureate – though the Nobel committee does not acknowledge refusals, and continues to list its winners whether or not they want the prize – because the Nobel prize’s founder, Alfred Nobel, was an armaments manufacturer."
Sorry, dear Nobel Prize team, Dylan was never such a big friend of armaments manufacturers.
Bob Dylan- Masters of War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exm7FN-t3PY
edit
because it's a literature Nobel Prize:
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.
You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain.
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud.
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.
And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.
Bob Dylan removes mention of Nobel Prize from website
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...es-nobel-prize-literature-win-removed-website
"Some fans have suggested Dylan should refuse the title of Nobel laureate – though the Nobel committee does not acknowledge refusals, and continues to list its winners whether or not they want the prize – because the Nobel prize’s founder, Alfred Nobel, was an armaments manufacturer."
Sorry, dear Nobel Prize team, Dylan was never such a big friend of armaments manufacturers.
Bob Dylan- Masters of War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exm7FN-t3PY
edit
because it's a literature Nobel Prize:
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.
You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain.
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud.
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.
And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.
coconutcurry
High
I don't believe it:
Bob Dylan criticised as 'impolite and arrogant' by Nobel academy member
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...impolite-and-arrogant-by-nobel-academy-member
I think the Nobel Prize team should have read his lyrics before they awarded him.
Who is arrogant?
Bob Dylan criticised as 'impolite and arrogant' by Nobel academy member
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...impolite-and-arrogant-by-nobel-academy-member
I think the Nobel Prize team should have read his lyrics before they awarded him.
Who is arrogant?
N
noyd666
bobs just sitting back smiling.
