I grew up as the only child of a single dad who was an alcoholic shop-rat Vietnam vet, and if it weren’t for music we would’ve remained strangers. Music was our religion, songs were our gospels, Bob Dylan was a savior and his songs were the red words. This song is a religious experience for me, it brings me closer to god, and my dad, who passed in 2020. I never thought I could miss someone that I tried so much not to be like, and listening to this song makes me realize that for all his faults, he was a r good man, and I’m proud to be his son.
@@SunRaIV Go back to JF Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson, who really escalated the war during the 1960's. Nixon, while no hero, at least saw that the war was futile and got out. When people talk about stealing elections, remember that dishonest elections are as American as Apple Pie. Watergate was one Nixon's many mistakes.
DAMN..! I got goosebumps and almost teared up... It's similar to me and my son Who is 26 now but has the musical taste of a much older man because of the music I constantly played his entire life... I know that when I'm gone a number of song's have have even more meaning to him, and remind him of the great relationship we had... Thanks for sharing this.
I really think that with this song, Dylan mastered his best guise, as the all American frontier drifter, hustler, conman and bullshit artist. The rhythms of his voice through this song are just spellbinding: “Later on as the crowd thinned out, l was just about to do the same”, “but l never did like it all that much and one day the axe just fell”, “finally when the bottom fell out, l became withdrawn”…. I’ve never heard such effortless-seeming genius.
This song reminds me of a real good friend I once had his name was Beecher Alden duff . He passed away in Chicago,man we sure raised a lot of Cain back at dilce combs high,man it will never be the same.
I think it's the best song he ever wrote. One of the best of all time. It's like reading a great novel but it's all done listening to a 5 minute song. Genius.
The words in this song bring images to life, I feel like I am there, in the place he’s singing about. I’m in a corner of the room, looking at & watching the characters in the song. Amazing.
6 8 in two months This is one of my divorce anthems I have more than one divorce anthem, and one marriage I didn’t get married until I was 30 years old and I was already looking for divorce lawyer five years later I stayed married until I was 50 years old And I left him
I don't find Dylan lyrics too hard to understand. In 1965 I was 12 years old and writing poetry. My mother, a professional writer said "listen to this guy; you'll love his writing". She was right.!
Several movies of paintings.😎 And yea, this song just paints as it goes, and it talks of painting too. Chit, Dylan just pitched Picasso Blue into a song/album . LOL
He must’ve been…”well, hey this is pretty good, five verses, I wonder if I should write a couple more”. I mean, he coulda ended it aafter the fifth and it wouldve been perfect….
Dylan's music, as opposed to his lyrics, is so underrated! People talk about the Beatles sound and Dylan's lyrics, and The Beatles lyrics, but Dylan's sound is just as worthy and is simply incredible! Like a Rolling Stone has the most amazing sound, and this song and the entire Blonde on Blonde album have the most beautiful and sophistocated sound, and it all goes with the incredible lyrics so well!
Sheer genius, this is arguably Dylan’s best. The poetic imagery is so vivid and the driving force of the music carries the listener through the poignant tale so swiftly that the song seems shorter than it’s nearly 6 minute length. I’ve listened to it now for 45 years and never tire of it.
I hated this song at first for some reason. Then when I heard the NYC slow original version, it clicked with me. Now I love it. A lot of Dylan music is like that though. Just clicks one day and you love it.
This song is like a book. It makes you feel as if you've witnessed snippets of the life of a fictional character. One of my favorite songs of all time.
I get that feeling with a lot of his songs, though with Subterranean Homesick Blues it feels like he’s telling several people’s life stories in under two and a half minutes. What a talent.
Exactly; that is a great description, "alexandria" etc.! really. And yeah, as someone else wrote below: the shifting between perspectives / personas is absolutely brilliant -- and toward the end, he looks at himself from the perspective of his fans, for a moment.
@@mumbles215 poetic license...who gives a fk about the bloodsucking press...seems to me they hounded him from day one wrote everything he said whether he said it or not lived it or not sooo
She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe “I thought you’d never say hello,” she said “You look like the silent type” Then she opened up a book of poems And handed it to me Written by an Italian poet he's referencing italian sonnets, consisting of 14 lines in iambic pentameter. Each verse in this song has excatly 14 lines
6/12/24..revisiting this tune. I'm 70, now and I love the story being told in this song. Reminds me a little bit about my own life, where I came from and where I ended up. Bob is older yet,....born in 1941. I was born in 1953. I traveled a bit, had girlfriends and lovers along the way, I took many short term jobs and quit them. I reinvented myself, a few times. I found what I liked doing, and did it.
Every SINGLE time I hear this song I wonder why no one has made a movie based on it. You got the main song for the soundtrack, the lyrics practically give the theme and plot outline for the script, the photographic imagery, the action...everything. Be on my bucket-list if I was a film maker.
Imagine Dylan himself portraying a storyteller narrating the tale of love once glimpsed becoming form and purpose compelling two lives fortunate to cross paths germinating through the vicissitudes of chance into the purpose of life… love.
You start by making 7 Mini Movies, loosely based on all 7 verses of Tangled Up In Blue, about 25 minutes long and each one about a different Woman in His life. For instance, 28 year old Derek, a Singer/ Songwriter, wakes up one morning cause the Sun was shining in through the blinds. He starts to think about Dana, His HS Sweetheart, who came from a wealthy family. Derek and Dana wanted to get married after HS but Dana's Pop forbid it and sent Dana to a Private College on the East Coast. So Derek drifts back about 8 years to when he was waiting for a Greyhound to take Him to go see Dana at College. And it's Raining. Derek arrives out East only to find out that Dana is with someone else now. Another segment has 21 year old Derek walking into a Topless bar right outside the Beltway in D.C. He sees Carmelita, a Stripper, who is about 4 or 5 years older than Derek. So while She is Dancing on stage, Carmelita and Derek's eyes meet. He smiles and She winks at him. When the night is over, Derek starts to leave and there is Carmelita, right behind His chair. She takes Derek home with her and they start a Relationship. Another segment could be Derek meeting up with a Pot Smoking Joni Mitchell type. Then, the last bit would be Him going back to find Dana, who has never gotten over Derek and Vice Versa. Dana, now 35, has taken over Her Father's Law firm, which now includes handling the affairs of a few Recording Artists, who Derek has written Songs for. You get the gist.
I did work on the road as a young man on the east coast, and I knew a girl who got married and moved away, and I did meet her again years later on the avenue, alone again. We got married 34 years ago. This song has always been special to me, and I believe most people can relate to the lyrics describing events in their own lives.
Congratulations 🎊 on your lengthy relationship . People give up on one another too quickly these days . They don,t get that it takes work & some give and take too . Nice to know love and commitment is not totally gone . Happy Anniversary to you both when it comes 🎉
I suffer from depression. Everytime, I get too down, I always think of the line about the bottom falling out and becoming withdrawn.. It is comforting to know I CAN keep on keeping on. Thanks Bob!!#
Same... There is ALWAYS Magic... God Bless and know that YOU are a Precious and Beautiful Gift to the Universe, even when you may not believe it... Even when we feel cold and alone, we are NOT... 💘
"...and every one of those words rang true and glowed like burning coal. Pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you..." Stay strong, Heather; take comfort in God's love.
Amen...my life. I've lived by the line in the movie Papillion, when the prisoner says to the guard looking in on his cell underground... I'm still here damnit. And later he escapes in his hand crafted raft. Saw movie when I was 17. At 67 I've used the line many times and carry on.
Amen. Story of my life. At 17 I saw the movie Papillon and have used a line from it often As a guard looks into Papillons underground cell to see if he's still living, he says, I'm still here damnit. Later he escapes in a hand crafted raft. Its a true story. I'm 67 now and say it each morning. 😅 And enjoy the day. I started this day with Dylan. 😊
69, taking a trip to the old wonderful days. little weed and wine and im there again for a bit, with bob. what a great life the father has given us.Ups and downs but still keep on keepin on baby
Could Dylan have experienced so much so young or was/is he just a brilliant observer. I'm nearly 70 and still blown away by his work old and new and because I'm sure he reads all these comments personally I'd just like to say thanks much obliged.
Oh my gosh. Exactly. His insight -- at such a young age amazes me -- and like you, I'm thinking it was, essentially, observation -- reporting -- like Jack London or Hemingway, but this explanation is insufficient. I still don't know how he did it. However it was done, it's marvelous and it enriches my life.
I quote the guy alot.. he said so many things that are different and insightful maybe because he didn't say so much in conversation. Here's one ....from the song sundown on the Union......" They use to grow food in Kansas..something ..something...now they want to grow it on the moon and eat it raw." Lol. Organic farming I guess.
What a timeless masterpiece! “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” by Bob Dylan never fails to captivate me with its soulful lyrics and irresistible groove. This song is like a journey through the depths of emotion, guided by Dylan’s raw and powerful vocals. Every time I listen to it, I’m reminded of why Bob Dylan is considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time. And it is a great song to get drunk to!!! Thank you, Bob, for this incredible piece of music that continues to resonate with audiences across the globe and especially UP HERE IN THE CANADIAN WILDERNESS!!!
"And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coals" and "We always feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view." Best lyrics ever!
Professor Chromsky, none of Bob Dylan's music will ever get old he is the best even this some and a lot of his stuff was released before I was even born love him.
Really? I could never make out what he was saying, and when I saw it written down, couldn't make much sense out of it. Thought it was a weak ending to an otherwise great song.
Beg to differ Jerry! Is it a great song? Beyond Great. But just a thread, no more. What I will say is this entire album is the epitome of Dylan's Mastery. Dylan doesn't paint per say...think 3 dimensionally. Each song, with plurality and ambiguity layering every line, with the current events (at the time) as a color palate and his personal life as the texture of the countless fibers, is twisted individually song by song into a thread. The arrangement of the songs and their true meanings, and the intentionally random rearrangement of paragraphs that really belong to other songs on the album are the multiple knot types that make up the weave itself. Then of course, with the fabric now woven, the final stitching is the naming of the creation. Quintessential Dylan throws us a hint in the same spirit of ambiguity that for all to ponder.
@@dalelange845Yeah, whatever you said. This was a great album. Dylan created so many masterpieces. You can't pick just one. I believe he's not finished yet. He never ceases to amaze us.
Dylan was the music from the beginning and all the other great artist from the best time in music-no matter how they try they can't reach this degree in music today!
...as someone who tries to use our language to capture & express what i see/feel/think, i am Always in awe of his skills.... this is the man who once rhymed "i've seen all these decoys/through eyes of deep turquoise".... C'mon, Bob....that's Not Even Fair !!!
This has got to be one of the best songs from one of the best albums of all time. Grew up with Dylan, learned to play guitar and learned all of the tracks on this album, all classics. His best album.
"But all the while I was alone The past was close behind I seen a lot of women But she never escaped my mind And I just grew Tangled up in blue" I've listened to this song for 45 years, and whenever he sings these words, my heart sinks. I just can't forget her.
My all time favorite Dylan song. He was a brilliant lyricist and composer, and when I look at the lyrics of this song and study how he can tell such a deep story of a person's life in the few lines of a song, I am continually amazed. I can't imagine how an artist can just create something like this "out of thin air."
Ohhh, this song. Ravages my heart - and has for over so many decades... Pure brilliance: "The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keeping on, like a bird that flew, tangled up in blue."
@@kvdme There's a Netflix documentary coming out very soon. Big budget with Martin Scorsese directing. A sequel to NDH sort of. I think this is lined up with that, and also put out because fans have been saying there needs to be SOME songs so that people dont look up Dylan and find some bad covers and assume it's him. Those covers have millions of views and many don't say cover. Lots of the comments think its him
Dude there will never be another Dylan for real, but there are other good lyricists out there. And they’ll tell you they’ll never be as profound or reach such levels of greatness as Dylan
Tangled Up in Blue has to be One of the Best Songs Bob Dylan Ever Wrote and Performed, and There's So Many to Choose From and I've been a Fan of his Since I was a Kid, and I Just Turned 60yrs Old on the 3rd of November True North Scorpion 🦂 Born Child of God..Angel ❤
I , too loved my dad and grew up listening to this music. I didn't want to be like him but in the end I cherished everything he ever taught me. Life is short and Bob Dylan says it right
I listen to this over and over....more often as I grow older, and it just keeps acquiring gravity and beauty. The story of our pilgrimage through life and striving for love and meaning.
I can't explain it, this song and its storytelling, is pure magic. When Bob sings, "But me I'm still on the road..." you can imagine him getting up from his barstool as he finishes his story, slinging his guitar over his shoulder. Then he doffs his hat as he prononces the final verses, and after that and a nod, he walks out, to the sound of a harmonica playing.
A truly remarkable autobiographical song of someone drifting from job to job, reviving relationships and dealing with whatever life threw at him. I love the line "But me, I'm still on the road, heading for another joint." An immaculate opening track to an exceptional album.
I started to listen to Bob Dylan in '64, at college, and I've been a fan ever since. Last time I was in the US, I ventured down to New Orleans and - to my wife's complete astonishment - I visited Delacroix. Later, I drove from St Louis thru Hannibal, MO and Keokuk to Fort Madison, IA - along Highway 61!
As I am listening to the song now, I agree with you all. I have listened to this for over 48 years. Every time I hear it, my eyes well up with tears. It fits everyone's life in some way or another. I too feel it's probably his best song. I read an article where he said he lived this song for 10 years and took him 2 years to write it. Dylan has always done it and never thought he did anything.
I grew up as the only child of a single dad who was an alcoholic shop-rat Vietnam vet, and if it weren’t for music we would’ve remained strangers. Music was our religion, songs were our gospels, Bob Dylan was a savior and his songs were the red words. This song is a religious experience for me, it brings me closer to god, and my dad, who passed in 2020. I never thought I could miss someone that I tried so much not to be like, and listening to this song makes me realize that for all his faults, he was a r good man, and I’m proud to be his son.
That’s so sweet. Makes so much sense. ❤
Ain't it Nixons fault ? I mean who sent him to vietnam ? That is the root of that evil.
@@SunRaIV Go back to JF Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson, who really escalated the war during the 1960's. Nixon, while no hero, at least saw that the war was futile and got out.
When people talk about stealing elections, remember that dishonest elections are as American as Apple Pie. Watergate was one Nixon's many mistakes.
DAMN..! I got goosebumps and almost teared up... It's similar to me and my son Who is 26 now but has the musical taste of a much older man because of the music I constantly played his entire life... I know that when I'm gone a number of song's have have even more meaning to him, and remind him of the great relationship we had...
Thanks for sharing this.
I hear ya man, i know that feeling, that ironic ending that gives us the most unlikely outcome
The greatest heartbreak some of them all
I really think that with this song, Dylan mastered his best guise, as the all American frontier drifter, hustler, conman and bullshit artist. The rhythms of his voice through this song are just spellbinding:
“Later on as the crowd thinned out, l was just about to do the same”, “but l never did like it all that much and one day the axe just fell”, “finally when the bottom fell out, l became withdrawn”…. I’ve never heard such effortless-seeming genius.
What Can I Say other than He is the Master!!!!
In my opinion his best song
What about "Visions of Johanna"?
"... the ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face..." WOW!
And “Like a rollin’stone”?
Or “Sarah”?
This song reminds me of a real good friend I once had his name was Beecher Alden duff . He passed away in Chicago,man we sure raised a lot of Cain back at dilce combs high,man it will never be the same.
Possibly the best ballad ever
I think it's the best song he ever wrote. One of the best of all time. It's like reading a great novel but it's all done listening to a 5 minute song. Genius.
The words in this song bring images to life, I feel like I am there, in the place he’s singing about. I’m in a corner of the room, looking at & watching the characters in the song. Amazing.
@@mariahewitt1841 Perfect description of how Dylan tells the story.
@@ChristopherDavis-uh1gq 😇
Agree. Best song he wrote. Fantastic album too.
@@mariahewitt1841 pop uiiiiihi
On of the all time best songs
Best song ever, listening on my 74th birthday
Thanks Bob
Happy late Birthday I hope today is awesome for you man
KEEP ON TRUCKING BROTHER !
I will hit 74 on January 15 2025
6 8 in two months
This is one of my divorce anthems
I have more than one divorce anthem, and one marriage
I didn’t get married until I was 30 years old and I was already looking for divorce lawyer five years later I stayed married until I was 50 years old
And I left him
To anyone that's had the years and experience to understand this song, bless you all. We will be ok. Never forget this.
THANK YOU \KEEP ROCKING
I never understood until I was much older, wish I would have before.
I don't find Dylan lyrics too hard to understand. In 1965 I was 12 years old and writing poetry. My mother, a professional writer said "listen to this guy; you'll love his writing". She was right.!
My cousin Bruce Martin fell off wagon at my stag 14! years he tipped da wagon over .
You’re handling things as you should be handling them.
Thanks for writing my song Bob.💔🎶
Who's still listening to the great Bob Dylan?? ME 😁😘😍😎❤❣️
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
Always and forever!!
According to this video alone 8.8 million
Me I'm definitely listening to this masterpiece 😂
...well, yeah. ...me, toooo.!👩❤️👨
This is his best work it’s fits me so well
I had a job in the great North Woods, working as a cook for a spell, but I never did like it all that much and one day the axe just fell.
Love his sense of humor...💙💙
This song is like a painting
Several movies of paintings.😎 And yea, this song just paints as it goes, and it talks of painting too.
Chit, Dylan just pitched Picasso Blue into a song/album . LOL
That whole album was good.
Blood on the Tracks.
The Picasso of songwriting
Greatest writer period.I must say.
This is Bob's best song
👍🏼🎯👌🏼
I think you might be right
I can’t disagree but I’ll bet if you ask a bunch of people they will probably say 10 different songs.
Most of the Time
Definitely one of them!!!!
Dylan is a poet with a guitar. The GOAT.
He must’ve been…”well, hey this is pretty good, five verses, I wonder if I should write a couple more”. I mean, he coulda ended it aafter the fifth and it wouldve been perfect….
@@Jerry-oo8hd It's perfect to the guy who wrote it. That's what counts. Not millions of opinions.
Find JESSE WELLES - current. A 21st century version
😮@@Jerry-oo8hd0:37 😅
@@jacqueline7551:33 you is😊😅😮😢🎉😂❤
No one tells a story like Dylan. He’s the master
100%!!!
Brilliant. Untouchable.
Hurricane Carter is another one.....
Personally Desolation Row and Master's of War Drove it Home... I Wanna Be Bob Dylan 😂❤Thank You Bob and Your Epic Ways of the World 🌎
People dont talk about the instrumental enough, its beautiful and i love how smoothly the rythym changes.
well I'm not to sure about that I r I am alpt of others soooo but yes great song❤
Dylan's music, as opposed to his lyrics, is so underrated! People talk about the Beatles sound and Dylan's lyrics, and The Beatles lyrics, but Dylan's sound is just as worthy and is simply incredible! Like a Rolling Stone has the most amazing sound, and this song and the entire Blonde on Blonde album have the most beautiful and sophistocated sound, and it all goes with the incredible lyrics so well!
Arguably, one of the best contemporary songs ever written.
@Adam Butcher It's still contemporary, I think
Helloo!! I covered this song in my channel and I really hope you like it!! See you! 😊
Yup
It’s my all time favorite song. I don’t have a close second.
Arguably one of the best albums* ever written
Best song ever, listening on my 71st birthday
Thanks Bob
Happy birthday.
Amazing, keep rocking my friend
@@chrisquinty3726thank you br😅
Happy birthday man!
its my 67th today, and I concur, what a great tune :)
Delacroix Louisiana as we say Comment ça va' (How are you) in Cajun French !!!
I had more fun being 20 in the seventies
Than
Being 70 in the twenties !
A masterpiece
Love a sharp observation! I first heard it on vinlyl 1976-77 from an older sister's cheap turntable
I had less fun being 20 in the noughties, than being naughty in the 20s.
70 year old here i hear ya...we didnt know how good we had it except for Nam.
I am with you friend, well said, keep on keeping on!!
clever
a great song.
This is about life ,regrets and love what a great song to reflect on life i hope people out there will agree . .
Agreed
Yes ma'am! But we've been fortunate to live it and what a blessing.❤️🇺🇸
Sheer genius, this is arguably Dylan’s best. The poetic imagery is so vivid and the driving force of the music carries the listener through the poignant tale so swiftly that the song seems shorter than it’s nearly 6 minute length. I’ve listened to it now for 45 years and never tire of it.
Pretty much nailed it. I am not a huge Dylan fan but this song is his best. In my humble opinion.
@Gino Furzi Sums up my life, ups and downs.
That,s true the morre I listen to it the more I love it,magic for more than 40 years, God bless Bob Dylan.
Saw him some 30 years ago. Concert with him, the dead & Tom petty. Lifetime ago.
I hated this song at first for some reason. Then when I heard the NYC slow original version, it clicked with me. Now I love it. A lot of Dylan music is like that though. Just clicks one day and you love it.
This belongs in a museum as one of the greatest pieces of art ever created by a human.
Why, yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Worthy of a Nobel Prize, right?
My utmost favorite lyrics!!
That whole album is my all time favorite!
Hard to disagree, OUR highest Art portrayed in words , sound ; Bob a gift to US ALL.
This song is like a book. It makes you feel as if you've witnessed snippets of the life of a fictional character. One of my favorite songs of all time.
Dylan's words .it took 10years to live and 2 years to write this song
I get that feeling with a lot of his songs, though with Subterranean Homesick Blues it feels like he’s telling several people’s life stories in under two and a half minutes. What a talent.
Yup...
Exactly; that is a great description, "alexandria" etc.! really. And yeah, as someone else wrote below: the shifting between perspectives / personas is absolutely brilliant -- and toward the end, he looks at himself from the perspective of his fans, for a moment.
@@johncox9054 but does he really get it? Does he understand "the fans"...
Has to be the greatest song ever written
It is speaks volumes love it
My fave Bob Dylan song!
Over 6,500,000 and not a single dislike...speaks volumes
They removed dislikes.
How can anyone dislike a gem,such as this one?
Bob said it took him about 15 years to write this song, worth the wait.
He said it took him 10 years to live and 2 years to write. And yeah, absolutely worth the wait.
He also lied nonstop to the press.
@@mumbles215 lmao what he do to you?
@@mumbles215 poetic license...who gives a fk about the bloodsucking press...seems to me they hounded him from day one wrote everything he said whether he said it or not lived it or not sooo
She lit a burner on the stove
And offered me a pipe
“I thought you’d never say hello,” she said
“You look like the silent type”
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
he's referencing italian sonnets, consisting of 14 lines in iambic pentameter. Each verse in this song has excatly 14 lines
Count to 14 challenge (IMPOSSIBLE??!)
it's "offered me a PLATE", not "pipe!
@@sunman2593 The video description has lyrics and those lyrics say pipe.
By the way I'm 65 years old now and I'm listening to this song as we speak on January the 26th 2022 God bless you all
December '58 so I'm 65 too, Dylan was too early for me, only picked up on him in my early teens-he's been there ever since.
6/12/24..revisiting this tune. I'm 70, now and I love the story being told in this song. Reminds me a little bit about my own life, where I came from and where I ended up. Bob is older yet,....born in 1941. I was born in 1953. I traveled a bit, had girlfriends and lovers along the way, I took many short term jobs and quit them. I reinvented myself, a few times. I found what I liked doing, and did it.
You need to get saved. Respectfully, sir
76
Crying tears of sadness and happiness today listening to this. Thank you Mr. Dylan
Crying from sadness... Jeffrey Simon Boston
Every SINGLE time I hear this song I wonder why no one has made a movie based on it. You got the main song for the soundtrack, the lyrics practically give the theme and plot outline for the script, the photographic imagery, the action...everything. Be on my bucket-list if I was a film maker.
bin done; not watchin
@@valeriedelong1553 I was skeptical and then I looked it up and thought, "London? WTF?"
Imagine Dylan himself portraying a storyteller narrating the tale of love once glimpsed becoming form and purpose compelling two lives fortunate to cross paths germinating through the vicissitudes of chance into the purpose of life… love.
Luca Guadagnino currently has the rights to make a film adaptation of Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks
You start by making 7 Mini Movies, loosely based on all 7 verses of Tangled Up In Blue, about 25 minutes long and each one about a different Woman in His life.
For instance, 28 year old Derek, a Singer/ Songwriter, wakes up one morning cause the Sun was shining in through the blinds. He starts to think about Dana, His HS Sweetheart, who came from a wealthy family. Derek and Dana wanted to get married after HS but Dana's Pop forbid it and sent Dana to a Private College on the East Coast. So Derek drifts back about 8 years to when he was waiting for a Greyhound to take Him to go see Dana at College. And it's Raining. Derek arrives out East only to find out that Dana is with someone else now.
Another segment has 21 year old Derek walking into a Topless bar right outside the Beltway in D.C. He sees Carmelita, a Stripper, who is about 4 or 5 years older than Derek. So while She is Dancing on stage, Carmelita and Derek's eyes meet. He smiles and She winks at him. When the night is over, Derek starts to leave and there is Carmelita, right behind His chair. She takes Derek home with her and they start a Relationship.
Another segment could be Derek meeting up with a Pot Smoking Joni Mitchell type.
Then, the last bit would be Him going back to find Dana, who has never gotten over Derek and Vice Versa. Dana, now 35, has taken over Her Father's Law firm, which now includes handling the affairs of a few Recording Artists, who Derek has written Songs for. You get the gist.
I can never really pick my favourite Bob Dylan song but this is definitely one of them.😊
same
It’s hard to pick 1 of Dylan’s classics. This one is hard to beat 😊
Forever young. My pick. Anyone else have a song?
In my humble and heartfelt opinion, his finest song by far.
No argument here
I did work on the road as a young man on the east coast, and I knew a girl who got married and moved away, and I did meet her again years later on the avenue, alone again. We got married 34 years ago. This song has always been special to me, and I believe most people can relate to the lyrics describing events in their own lives.
Congratulations 🎊 on your lengthy relationship . People give up on one another too quickly these days . They don,t get that it takes work & some give and take too . Nice to know love and commitment is not totally gone . Happy Anniversary to you both when it comes 🎉
@@Maria-ef5gq thank you for the kind words, the best to you.
Most of the Time my personal favorite
Hell of a song writer.
I suffer from depression. Everytime, I get too down, I always think of the line about the bottom falling out and becoming withdrawn.. It is comforting to know I CAN keep on keeping on. Thanks Bob!!#
Dylan has a lot of inspiring tracks. I'd say: grab Spotify and have fun exploring his repetoire!
Same... There is ALWAYS Magic... God Bless and know that YOU are a Precious and Beautiful Gift to the Universe, even when you may not believe it... Even when we feel cold and alone, we are NOT... 💘
@@sarahnightwing2936 Thank you for your kindness! May God bless you!
@@heathergibson3590 Blessings to you as well 😊
"...and every one of those words rang true and glowed like burning coal. Pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you..." Stay strong, Heather; take comfort in God's love.
50 years later, and this music speaks to my soul.
Grown up listening Bob Dylan'
Me too
Dylan changed my life. This album is a great memory of past times. Where would we be without him?
Arkansas. Or possibly Hatteras...never mind, Astoria is close enough.
We would be musically bereft of a true genius... simple.
@@S.J.L lol at hatteras that cracked me up . well done.
Yep, He did it all, and Raised the Bar Way High on what a great song is
What a Masterpiece and the way he plays the Blues Harp is amazing.
This great song shows that there are no failures in life and that keeping on is it's singular victory.
Amen...my life. I've lived by the line in the movie Papillion, when the prisoner says to the guard looking in on his cell underground...
I'm still here damnit.
And later he escapes in his hand crafted raft.
Saw movie when I was 17. At 67 I've used the line many times and carry on.
Amen.
Story of my life.
At 17 I saw the movie Papillon and have used a line from it often
As a guard looks into Papillons underground cell to see if he's still living, he says, I'm still here damnit. Later he escapes in a hand crafted raft. Its a true story.
I'm 67 now and say it each morning. 😅
And enjoy the day.
I started this day with Dylan. 😊
69, taking a trip to the old wonderful days. little weed and wine and im there again for a bit, with bob. what a great life the father has given us.Ups and downs but still keep on keepin on baby
I'm 67, I understand ✌️
Unbelievable what a masterpiece keep on keeping on bob your the of the best
Of the the best
Could Dylan have experienced so much so young or was/is he just a brilliant observer. I'm nearly 70 and still blown away by his work old and new and because I'm sure he reads all these comments personally I'd just like to say thanks much obliged.
Oh my gosh. Exactly. His insight -- at such a young age amazes me -- and like you, I'm thinking it was, essentially, observation -- reporting -- like Jack London or Hemingway, but this explanation is insufficient. I still don't know how he did it. However it was done, it's marvelous and it enriches my life.
Well put !
@Daniel and that's cool
They do read them. Jagger and Richard have both texted me about my remarks.
I was thinking the same how could he know so much and then actually put it together and make it all ryme it really blows me away
Had Bob Dylan never been born it’s hard to imagine what the world would be like now.
I quote the guy alot.. he said so many things that are different and insightful maybe because he didn't say so much in conversation.
Here's one ....from the song sundown on the Union......" They use to grow food in Kansas..something ..something...now they want to grow it on the moon and eat it raw."
Lol. Organic farming I guess.
@@anthonypicardi4130 I love attempting to break Dylan’s codes in order to reach what he is cryptically saying.
It's turning for the worst, that's confirmed
@@davidbergschneider4435 It would have been worse had Dylan not contributed songs such as Masters of War et al.
What a timeless masterpiece! “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” by Bob Dylan never fails to captivate me with its soulful lyrics and irresistible groove. This song is like a journey through the depths of emotion, guided by Dylan’s raw and powerful vocals. Every time I listen to it, I’m reminded of why Bob Dylan is considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time. And it is a great song to get drunk to!!! Thank you, Bob, for this incredible piece of music that continues to resonate with audiences across the globe and especially UP HERE IN THE CANADIAN WILDERNESS!!!
"And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coals" and "We always feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view." Best lyrics ever!
BINGO
Easily my favorite Bob Dylan song. What a great story teller.
Been listening to this song for 37 years and it never, ever gets old - it is as brilliant as it ever was and it always will be. Magic x
Thanks 😊 😘 again and ..U R Right...! !
Professor Chromsky, none of Bob Dylan's music will ever get old he is the best even this some and a lot of his stuff was released before I was even born love him.
And it still keeps speaking to me every time I cue it.
Best songwriter in my opinion. It's like watching a movie through your ears. Cheers
Ok, boomer.
Dylan is a master of putting detailed, stark images into your head with a minimal amount of words. It's an incredible talent.
EXACTLY..! 🍻
He is a true poet
You can relate to his songs you just can’t explain them.
Whenever I hear the song it makes me feel like I was there traveling with him.
"We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view." one of my favorite expressions
Isn't Democracy Tangled up in Blue?
Really? I could never make out what he was saying, and when I saw it written down, couldn't make much sense out of it. Thought it was a weak ending to an otherwise great song.
Helloo!! I covered this song in my channel and I really hope you like it!! See you! 😊
Yep! Me 2
nozecone no offense I’m not sure you understand the song at all then
People point to several of Dylan's songs as his best, but with this one he truly painted his masterpiece.
Beg to differ Jerry! Is it a great song? Beyond Great. But just a thread, no more. What I will say is this entire album is the epitome of Dylan's Mastery. Dylan doesn't paint per say...think 3 dimensionally. Each song, with plurality and ambiguity layering every line, with the current events (at the time) as a color palate and his personal life as the texture of the countless fibers, is twisted individually song by song into a thread. The arrangement of the songs and their true meanings, and the intentionally random rearrangement of paragraphs that really belong to other songs on the album are the multiple knot types that make up the weave itself. Then of course, with the fabric now woven, the final stitching is the naming of the creation. Quintessential Dylan throws us a hint in the same spirit of ambiguity that for all to ponder.
Helloo!! I covered this song in my channel and I really hope you like it!! See you! 😊
This one and Buckets of Rain - two classics that I'll never tire of listening to
He actually calibrated with a artist when he wrote this song
Is what I heard anyway
@@dalelange845Yeah, whatever you said. This was a great album. Dylan created so many masterpieces. You can't pick just one. I believe he's not finished yet. He never ceases to amaze us.
Bob Dylan is a GENIUS!
Bob Dylan is the 60s and70s hero of music,the man is nothing but a genius! I'm 70yrs and still rocking out,,!
Dylan was the music from the beginning and all the other great artist from the best time in music-no matter how they try they can't reach this degree in music today!
Happy birthday Bob Dylan
Dylan's rhyming scheme in this song is incredible.
And effort less. That's the magic
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...as someone who tries to use our language to capture & express what i see/feel/think, i am Always in awe of his skills.... this is the man who once rhymed "i've seen all these decoys/through eyes of deep turquoise".... C'mon, Bob....that's Not Even Fair !!!
indeed
Genius
One of the greatest songs he ever wrote, and sang. Masterpiece.
This is legit one of the greatest songs ever and doesn't get the recognition it deserves
This has got to be one of the best songs from one of the best albums of all time. Grew up with Dylan, learned to play guitar and learned all of the tracks on this album, all classics. His best album.
The only artist EVER that makes me feel that I am there too.
go see CHER
That's pretty accurate but you'd need to add Joni Mitchell to that.
You could make a movie for each of Bob's songs
"But all the while I was alone
The past was close behind
I seen a lot of women
But she never escaped my mind
And I just grew
Tangled up in blue" I've listened to this song for 45 years, and whenever he sings these words, my heart sinks. I just can't forget her.
Couldn't agree more
And of course
If you see her say hello
You and me, brother. I found her and this song at the same time. Then I lost her, and the song is all that’s left.
👍
So true brother tell her I said hello
Got one, too, bro' ...got one, too.
My all time favorite Dylan song. He was a brilliant lyricist and composer, and when I look at the lyrics of this song and study how he can tell such a deep story of a person's life in the few lines of a song, I am continually amazed. I can't imagine how an artist can just create something like this "out of thin air."
I call it being off the top, one take only. It's amazing
Is a brilliant lyricist ❤
school of hard knocks?? masters i bet
My 11th grade English teacher opened class with this song. I wish I had an opportunity to thank him. Took me too many years to appreciate it.
the greatest storyteller
There is not person past , present , or future who could write this song. Only Dylan.
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Nuts dude
Ginsberg and Kerouac did
@@andrewardenmills you've got something significant here but it does'nt diminish dylan's journey.does it?
Ohhh, this song. Ravages my heart - and has for over so many decades... Pure brilliance:
"The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keeping on, like a bird that flew, tangled up in blue."
Amazing. This is a poem, a ballad, a rich narrative story or tapestry set to music and sung by a gravelly voiced genius
Love Dylan from London England ❤
Amen ❤
The greatest song ever written...60+ classics dropped in one day...Bob you better not be dead...we Love you
60+ huh, what that mean? he stopped askin for premium?
There is something going on for him to do this. I'll have my heart broken when he leaves us, love him so...
@@kvdme There's a Netflix documentary coming out very soon. Big budget with Martin Scorsese directing. A sequel to NDH sort of. I think this is lined up with that, and also put out because fans have been saying there needs to be SOME songs so that people dont look up Dylan and find some bad covers and assume it's him. Those covers have millions of views and many don't say cover. Lots of the comments think its him
Dude there will never be another Dylan for real, but there are other good lyricists out there. And they’ll tell you they’ll never be as profound or reach such levels of greatness as Dylan
@@kc2094Watching now!
Oh my God ..what a beautiful song. It brings back so many memories
Tangled Up in Blue has to be One of the Best Songs Bob Dylan Ever Wrote and Performed, and There's So Many to Choose From and I've been a Fan of his Since I was a Kid, and I Just Turned 60yrs Old on the 3rd of November True North Scorpion 🦂 Born Child of God..Angel ❤
My favorite Dylan song. A masterpiece.
same, and that's saying a lot with the incredible songs Dylan has written!
Good taste, same here ✌️
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Ditto, I could listen to it 1000 times in a row!
I never slowed to listen to this then I thought there will be time then I saw him play now I listen to him steady especially this one
Thankfully, my Dad gave me Bob Dylan, Mum the Rolling Stones, 3 sisters gave me the love songs & brother the 1970's......I just listened ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
To all the wonderful loves that ceased to exist. Only to become great memories of mysteries to us all.
This particular story for me is about moving on and getting on with life and holding on to the memories of a never forgotten love.
I , too loved my dad and grew up listening to this music. I didn't want to be like him but in the end I cherished everything he ever taught me. Life is short and Bob Dylan says it right
Todays music will never be as good as yesteryears music. 60’s-80’s. Glad we can enjoy it on these platforms. Peace ☮️ and love ❤️
I listen to this over and over....more often as I grow older, and it just keeps acquiring gravity and beauty. The story of our pilgrimage through life and striving for love and meaning.
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That's what life is, a beautiful series of stumbles, struts and soars whilst we chase a love that makes us feel as warm as Tangled up in Blue
Last lines a great one
Timeless
I can't explain it, this song and its storytelling, is pure magic. When Bob sings, "But me I'm still on the road..." you can imagine him getting up from his barstool as he finishes his story, slinging his guitar over his shoulder. Then he doffs his hat as he prononces the final verses, and after that and a nod, he walks out, to the sound of a harmonica playing.
Awesome!
The best poet of our era. No close second.
These guys invented the bible of cool in 3 short years, all hail❤
Bob Dylan...pure genius! 🤔
A truly remarkable autobiographical song of someone drifting from job to job, reviving relationships and dealing with whatever life threw at him. I love the line "But me, I'm still on the road, heading for another joint." An immaculate opening track to an exceptional album.
I love the fact that I lived through this wonderful time. T.y. Bob
One of the best story songs there's ever been
I’d say this is my favourite Dylan song and it kind of is, apart from about 50 others.
Ha ha! So true!
Miles Jolly I feel exactly the same way
John Hubbard I agree. Love Mr. Zimmerman.
yep, know the feeling
Bob Dylan and I left our childhood behind around the same time. I love this song the most along with 150 others by him.
I started to listen to Bob Dylan in '64, at college, and I've been a fan ever since. Last time I was in the US, I ventured down to New Orleans and - to my wife's complete astonishment - I visited Delacroix. Later, I drove from St Louis thru Hannibal, MO and Keokuk to Fort Madison, IA - along Highway 61!
Not only great poetry, but also a great song with a true life's story,all rolled up in 5:44 of music.Nobody can do it like Bob Dylan.
As I am listening to the song now, I agree with you all. I have listened to this for over 48 years. Every time I hear it, my eyes well up with tears. It fits everyone's life in some way or another. I too feel it's probably his best song. I read an article where he said he lived this song for 10 years and took him 2 years to write it. Dylan has always done it and never thought he did anything.
This song reminds me of ONE person and I’ll never forget her…..
Me Too.....
A Woman I Adored.....
MY FRIEND AMY SOZIO
FROM MILLBURN,NJ
1960-2013
I cry about Amy Often. I Cannot believe, She is Not Here.....
JEFFREY SIMON
BOSTON,MA.
❤😢😢😢😢😢😢
Hope her inequity is held by some one else....tired of slaving myself to inequity....best get on down THAT RoAd ..... I mean it GO......