Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylanis an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest, although Dylan repudiated suggestions from journalists that he was a spokesman for his generation. Nevertheless, early songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. After he left...
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth24 May 1941
CityDuluth, MN
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.
If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.
I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.
I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.
I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.
How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?
Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?
Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.
Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.
Don't wanna marry nobody, if they're already married.