Imagine being so prolific you can't even be botherd to finish one of your greatest ever songs because you will be writing another classic in 10 minutes time no one will ever be this good again
No. This song is about HIS best friend and Musician (Bob Neuwirth) and Edie Sedgwick. And HE loved them both. Dearly. So basically that's why he couldn't finish this one... because HE was being spiteful & vicious.
@@mohammedhanif6780ballad in plain D prime example, pretty sure he said that it was the worst song he wrote or that it was his least favourite cus it was spiteful and unnecessary
As far as I’m concerned this is the ultimate hidden masterpiece of Bob Dylan’s career. It’s beyond mind-blowing that something this good was literally just sitting around for decades.
Its a tragedy this was never completed. The performance here is so powerful - the Hawks complementing the lyrics just perfectly - imho this 195/66 period represents Bobs vocals at his peak - so expressive and full of emotion.
Lyrics - She’s your lover now - COMPLETE The pawnbroker roared Also, so, so did the landlord The scene was so crazy, wasn't it? Both were so glad To watch me destroy what I had Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn't it? Why didn't you just leave me if you didn't want to stay? Why'd you have to treat me so bad? Did it have to be that way? Now you stand here expectin' me to remember somethin' you forgot to say. Yes, and you, I see you're still with her, well That's fine 'cause she's comin' on so strange, can't you tell? Somebody had better explain She's got her iron chain I'd do it, but I, I just can't remember how. You talk to her She's your lover now. I already assumed That we're in the felony room But I ain't the judge, you don't have to be nice to me But please tell that To your friend in the cowboy hat You know he keeps on sayin' ev'rythin' twice to me You know I was straight with you You know l've never tried to change you in any way You know if you didn't want to be with me That you could... didn't have to stay. Now you stand here sayin' you forgive and forget. Honey, what can I say? Yes, you, you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can't you reach? I see you kiss her on the cheek ev'rytime she gives a speech With her picture books of the pyramid And her postcards of Billy the Kid (must everybody bow?) You better talk to her 'bout it You're her lover now. Oh, ev'rybody that cares Is goin' up the castle stairs But I'm not up in your castle, honey It's true, I just can't recall San Francisco at all I can't even remember El Paso, uh, honey You never had to be faithful, I never wanted you to grieve Oh, why was it so hard for you If you didn't want to be with me, just to leave? Now you stand here while your finger's goin' up my sleeve An' you, just what do you do anyway? Ain't there nothin' you can say? She'll be standin' on a bar soon With a fish head an' a harpoon An' a fake beard plastered on her brow You'd better do somethin' quick She's your lover now. -added unofficial lyrics by me - Oh, why must I fall into the sadness, Do I look like Charles Atlas? Do you think I still got what you still got baby? My voice is really warm, it’s just that it ain’t got no form, it’s just like a dead man’s last pistol shot baby, aw your mouth used to be so naked, your eyes used to be so blue, your hurts used to be so nameless and your tears used to be so few… Now your mouth cries wolf, While…[Bob says “what” to the band & the song ends before final verse which he sings in another slower version of him alone at the piano] -- Missing end lyrics- from complete take 16 Now your eyes cry wolf, While your mouth cries "I'm not scared Of animals like you." And you, there's been nothing of you I can recall; I just saw you that one time. You were just there, that's all. But, I've already been kissed, I'm not gonna get into this. I couldn't make it, anyhow. You do it for me, You're her lover now.
@@stephenlee1756 Yeah you can tell this is about the 3ird time the Band has ever heard this tune and theyre trying to figure out what Dylan is playing.. So cool.
@@timothyryan6018 This version is take 15. The only complete version of this song is take 16 and it's played on the piano by Dylan, with no band. Incredible versions.
The band sounds so dynamic and quick on its feet on this recording. It goes without saying that the songwriting is great. Could have been of Dylan's best if he'd have finished it.
The most complex and sophisticated of the Blonde on Blonde sessions. The band is on fire!!!!! Should have finished it and put it on the record or maybe this is a preview of the directions Dylan might’ve gone in, the song has several songs within it. Sheer genius!
The pawnbroker roared Also, so, so did the landlord The scene was so crazy, wasn't it? Both were so glad To watch me destroy what I had Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn't it? Why didn't you just leave me if you didn't want to stay? Why'd you have to treat me so bad? Did it have to be that way? Now you stand here expectin' me to remember somethin' you forgot to say Yes, and you, I see you're still with her, well That's fine 'cause she's comin' on so strange, can't you tell? Somebody had better explain She's got her iron chain I'd do it, but I, I just can't remember how You talk to her She's your lover now. I already assumed That we're in the felony room But I ain't a judge, you don't have to be nice to me But please tell that To your friend in the cowboy hat You know he keeps on sayin' ev'rythin' twice to me You know I was straight with you You know I've never tried to change you in any way You know if you didn't want to be with me That you could . . . didn't have to stay. Now you stand here sayin' you forgive and forget. Honey, what can I say? Yes, you, you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can't you reach? I see you kiss her on the cheek ev'rytime she gives a speech With her picture books of the pyramid And her postcards of Billy the Kid (Why must everybody bow?) You better talk to her 'bout it You're her lover now. Oh, ev'rybody that cares Is goin' up the castle stairs But I'm not up in your castle, honey It's true, I just can't recall San Francisco at all I can't even remember El Paso, uh, honey You never had to be faithful I didn't want you to grieve Oh, why was it so hard for you If you didn't want to be with me, just to leave? Now you stand here while your finger's goin' up my sleeve An' you, just what do you do anyway? Ain't there nothin' you can say? She'll be standin' on the bar soon With a fish head an' a harpoon An' a fake beard plastered on her brow You'd better do somethin' quick She's your lover now.
He changed this song to SOONER OR LATER ONE OF US MUST KNOW. This was recorded in December of 1965 in New York. Sooner or later was recorded in Nashville in February 1966.
🎶☮️🎶 thank you. This song is well to me. " You know he keeps on saying everything twice to me ... You just sit around and ask for ashtrays , can't you reach.... " Ah man. I needed all that smile laugh today. Thank you. Cptn. 🎶☮️🎶
This is possibly a heresy, but I think the breakdown halfway through the last verse is somehow the only thing that could happen. The previous verses each build to their own point of extreme tension and are then partially resolved at the end of the verse. The 4th verse starts with even more tension building as it progresses. Everything up to this point has registered 10 on the genius scale, the band "hanging on by a golden thread" as Timothy Ryan's comment has it, but the remaining lyrics (as we have them in the 'rehearsal'version of the song) just do not, in my opinion, quite match the quality of what has gone before. Possibly Dylan was trying to re-work them as he sang - something only he could do! - and found the right words just would not come at the moment they were required. So he stopped. And then abandoned the song as he had done the best he could with it. What we have remains one of his masterpieces.
best comment regarding this take - but if you listen at the end dylan seems distracted by something and the band have begun to slow before he messes the lyric
@@fredfat3128 I've just listened again and I think you have to remember that the other musicians are having to follow Dylan's lead - when he falters they do as well. It's just fractions of a second we're talking about. I have to say again that the writing in this song matches anything else he's ever written, and the last four lines before the break are the purest poetry he ever wrote.
This song is about HIS best friend and Musician (Bob Neuwirth) and Edie Sedgwick. And HE loved them both. And that's WHY he is so bitter and twisted. Which is odd, since HE left her.....and then had a lifetime of regrets ever afterwards. So basically that's why he couldn't finish this one because HE was being SO spiteful and cruel towards BOTH of them in song and on typewriter. Just listen to that vicious spiteful BOY moaning on and on and on and on.
I feel somewhat confident that this song and “Positively Fourth Street” must have been written about the same unfortunate woman? Maybe, maybe not. Hard to imagine Dylan could have met two woman who inspired such vitriolic bile from him.
Imagine being so prolific you can't even be botherd to finish one of your greatest ever songs because you will be writing another classic in 10 minutes time no one will ever be this good again
No. This song is about HIS best friend and Musician (Bob Neuwirth) and Edie Sedgwick.
And HE loved them both. Dearly. So basically that's why he couldn't finish this one... because HE was being spiteful & vicious.
اي والله
bobby completed a jumber of spiteful songs about those he loved.
@@mohammedhanif6780ballad in plain D prime example, pretty sure he said that it was the worst song he wrote or that it was his least favourite cus it was spiteful and unnecessary
@@hazard3020 How do you know this?
If this had been completed and included on Blonde on Blonde, it would have been the greatest rock album ever for the next 500 years.
Sounds a bit like "Soon or later..."
@@Ro_Morgen definitely has elements of it.
As far as I’m concerned this is the ultimate hidden masterpiece of Bob Dylan’s career. It’s beyond mind-blowing that something this good was literally just sitting around for decades.
I actually think this is his best song he’s ever recorded
Yeah!
Its a tragedy this was never completed. The performance here is so powerful - the Hawks complementing the lyrics just perfectly - imho this 195/66 period represents Bobs vocals at his peak - so expressive and full of emotion.
The drumming on this track is orgasmic
"One of the most terrifying performances ever recorded." - Greil Marcus
55 years later and still don't understand why the producer didn't go "great, Bob, now we're doing only the last part and we're good".
Lyrics - She’s your lover now - COMPLETE
The pawnbroker roared
Also, so, so did the landlord The scene was so crazy, wasn't it?
Both were so glad
To watch me destroy what I had
Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn't it?
Why didn't you just leave me if you didn't want to stay?
Why'd you have to treat me so bad?
Did it have to be that way?
Now you stand here expectin' me to remember somethin' you forgot to say.
Yes, and you, I see you're still with her, well That's fine 'cause she's comin' on so strange, can't you tell?
Somebody had better explain
She's got her iron chain
I'd do it, but I, I just can't remember how. You talk to her
She's your lover now.
I already assumed
That we're in the felony room
But I ain't the judge, you don't have to be nice to me
But please tell that
To your friend in the cowboy hat
You know he keeps on sayin' ev'rythin' twice to me
You know I was straight with you
You know l've never tried to change you in any way
You know if you didn't want to be with me That you could... didn't have to stay.
Now you stand here sayin' you forgive and forget. Honey, what can I say?
Yes, you, you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can't you reach?
I see you kiss her on the cheek ev'rytime she gives a speech
With her picture books of the pyramid And her postcards of Billy the Kid (must everybody bow?)
You better talk to her 'bout it
You're her lover now.
Oh, ev'rybody that cares Is goin' up the castle stairs But I'm not up in your castle, honey It's true, I just can't recall San Francisco at all
I can't even remember El Paso, uh, honey
You never had to be faithful, I never wanted you to grieve
Oh, why was it so hard for you
If you didn't want to be with me, just to leave?
Now you stand here while your finger's goin' up my sleeve
An' you, just what do you do anyway? Ain't there nothin' you can say?
She'll be standin' on a bar soon With a fish head an' a harpoon
An' a fake beard plastered on her brow
You'd better do somethin' quick
She's your lover now.
-added unofficial lyrics by me -
Oh, why must I fall into the sadness,
Do I look like Charles Atlas?
Do you think I still got what you still got baby?
My voice is really warm,
it’s just that it ain’t got no form,
it’s just like a dead man’s last pistol shot baby,
aw your mouth used to be so naked,
your eyes used to be so blue,
your hurts used to be so nameless and your tears used to be so few…
Now your mouth cries wolf,
While…[Bob says “what” to the band & the
song ends before final verse which he sings in another slower version of him alone at the piano]
--
Missing end lyrics- from complete take 16
Now your eyes cry wolf,
While your mouth cries "I'm not scared
Of animals like you."
And you, there's been nothing of you I can recall;
I just saw you that one time. You were just there, that's all.
But, I've already been kissed,
I'm not gonna get into this.
I couldn't make it, anyhow.
You do it for me,
You're her lover now.
Bob Dylan your voice will be heard forever
One of his greatest songs and it's not even finished.
Absolutely my favourite "out take".. Wow the band is following Bob just hanging on by a golden thread. Fantastic
A perfect way to describe what is happening!
@@stephenlee1756 Yeah you can tell this is about the 3ird time the Band has ever heard this tune and theyre trying to figure out what Dylan is playing.. So cool.
@@timothyryan6018 musicians get extra inspiration from His Bobness.
@@timothyryan6018 This version is take 15. The only complete version of this song is take 16 and it's played on the piano by Dylan, with no band. Incredible versions.
Once the Band kicks this into gear, Bob rises to the occasion.
Bob Neuwirth was a friend of mine. I miss him dearly. He was wonderful company, a fine songwriter, a talented painter, and a good soul.
Weird love triangle - Bob/Edie/Bob = Blonde On Blonde.
@@ralphabetsoup Is it Neuwirth one of the people Dylan seems to tackle here?
@@sidgriffin813 x
That classic Dylan sound. I could listen to it all day.
The band sounds so dynamic and quick on its feet on this recording. It goes without saying that the songwriting is great. Could have been of Dylan's best if he'd have finished it.
👍👍👍
The most complex and sophisticated of the Blonde on Blonde sessions. The band is on fire!!!!! Should have finished it and put it on the record or maybe this is a preview of the directions Dylan might’ve gone in, the song has several songs within it. Sheer genius!
The pawnbroker roared
Also, so, so did the landlord
The scene was so crazy, wasn't it?
Both were so glad
To watch me destroy what I had
Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn't it?
Why didn't you just leave me if you didn't want to stay?
Why'd you have to treat me so bad?
Did it have to be that way?
Now you stand here expectin' me to remember somethin' you forgot to say
Yes, and you, I see you're still with her, well
That's fine 'cause she's comin' on so strange, can't you tell?
Somebody had better explain
She's got her iron chain
I'd do it, but I, I just can't remember how
You talk to her
She's your lover now.
I already assumed
That we're in the felony room
But I ain't a judge, you don't have to be nice to me
But please tell that
To your friend in the cowboy hat
You know he keeps on sayin' ev'rythin' twice to me
You know I was straight with you
You know I've never tried to change you in any way
You know if you didn't want to be with me
That you could . . . didn't have to stay.
Now you stand here sayin' you forgive and forget. Honey, what can I say?
Yes, you, you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can't you reach?
I see you kiss her on the cheek ev'rytime she gives a speech
With her picture books of the pyramid
And her postcards of Billy the Kid
(Why must everybody bow?)
You better talk to her 'bout it
You're her lover now.
Oh, ev'rybody that cares
Is goin' up the castle stairs
But I'm not up in your castle, honey
It's true, I just can't recall
San Francisco at all
I can't even remember El Paso, uh, honey
You never had to be faithful
I didn't want you to grieve
Oh, why was it so hard for you
If you didn't want to be with me, just to leave?
Now you stand here while your finger's goin' up my sleeve
An' you, just what do you do anyway? Ain't there nothin' you can say?
She'll be standin' on the bar soon
With a fish head an' a harpoon
An' a fake beard plastered on her brow
You'd better do somethin' quick
She's your lover now.
I first heard this song on KSFR (Santa Fe, NM) a month or so ago. It is at the top of my personal playlist now.
Bob Dylan =GOAT
I agree.
What does that mean?
@@Laine369 greatest of all time
@Kaustubh Shahakar re GOAT explanation, thank you so much.
I've seen it lots of times, and wondered 🥺 🙏🙈🍀🍀🍀🌺🌷🌺🐲
Bob the genius.❤
Only one Dylan, now and forever ,💪💯🎼🎼
Hello Dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
Amazing Mr Dylan
Great stuff
This song is amazing thanks Bob.
I love these studio out takes!!
Reminds me of Sooner or Later.
A truly magnificent song
Bob, you are giving to us your all a life artistic work. God bless you.
At last 👏
This is a gr8 song thanx Bob.
Top song give more credit 2 this all time classic.
Everyone's calling this a lost classic... hardly lost, it's absolutely sweet marie!
Just shows just how great drummer Levon was, this is magnificent
Levon isnt on drums on this, this was after he left because he couldn't take the booing during the 1966 tour, he left and worked on an oil rig
@@matthewt6805 this was recorded before that tour with the booing that caused Levon to leave
He changed this song to SOONER OR LATER ONE OF US MUST KNOW. This was recorded in December of 1965 in New York. Sooner or later was recorded in Nashville in February 1966.
I'd always thought this was one of the BoB songs recorded in New York?
That he didn't finish and release It tells you all you need to know.
The best
🎶☮️🎶 thank you. This song is well to me. " You know he keeps on saying everything twice to me ... You just sit around and ask for ashtrays , can't you reach.... "
Ah man. I needed all that smile laugh today. Thank you.
Cptn. 🎶☮️🎶
Yes yes yes
sounds reminiscent of Where Are Tonight Sweet Marie.
Evolved into "Absolutely Sweet Marie".
A reworked version would have fit great on "Blood on the Tracks" or replacing "Joey" on "Desire"
❤
هذا اعظم شيء بالحياة
💫🌟🎵
Nach sechs Minuten geht dem Trommler die Puste aus und der Liedermacher ist am Ende seines Lateins.
Sounds like Sooner Or Later One of Us Must Know. But on steroids. Definitely Dylan at his best!
It doesn't get any more Dylan then this song also sooner or later one of us must know
Cálido, cerca de One of Us Must Know
This is possibly a heresy, but I think the breakdown halfway through the last verse is somehow the only thing that could happen. The previous verses each build to their own point of extreme tension and are then partially resolved at the end of the verse. The 4th verse starts with even more tension building as it progresses. Everything up to this point has registered 10 on the genius scale, the band "hanging on by a golden thread" as Timothy Ryan's comment has it, but the remaining lyrics (as we have them in the 'rehearsal'version of the song) just do not, in my opinion, quite match the quality of what has gone before. Possibly Dylan was trying to re-work them as he sang - something only he could do! - and found the right words just would not come at the moment they were required. So he stopped. And then abandoned the song as he had done the best he could with it. What we have remains one of his masterpieces.
best comment regarding this take - but if you listen at the end dylan seems distracted by something and the band have begun to slow before he messes the lyric
@@fredfat3128 I've just listened again and I think you have to remember that the other musicians are having to follow Dylan's lead - when he falters they do as well. It's just fractions of a second we're talking about. I have to say again that the writing in this song matches anything else he's ever written, and the last four lines before the break are the purest poetry he ever wrote.
This song is about HIS best friend and Musician (Bob Neuwirth) and Edie Sedgwick.
And HE loved them both.
And that's WHY he is so bitter and twisted. Which is odd, since HE left her.....and then had a lifetime of regrets ever afterwards.
So basically that's why he couldn't finish this one because HE was being SO spiteful and cruel towards BOTH of them in song and on typewriter.
Just listen to that vicious spiteful BOY moaning on and on and on and on.
You say you forgive me, but you don't want to be with me, Montserrat..
seek help
is there a bootleg with the song "to fall in love with you" ?
I feel somewhat confident that this song and “Positively Fourth Street” must have been written about the same unfortunate woman? Maybe, maybe not. Hard to imagine Dylan could have met two woman who inspired such vitriolic bile from him.
Roarshach’s journal
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Did this urchin of a song grow up to be "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" ?
Absolutely Sweet Marie
Yes sooner or later one of must know.