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Released 1979. ?
Godlike short story of a song
I really like this but I prefer the bite of the studio version. Either way it's a great song.
This just popped up on my PSD. Such a beautifully sensitive vesion compared to the studio version, which comes off angry to me. Gives it a whole new appreciate of the poetry.
The greatest songwriter of my lifetime.
The greatest songwriter of my lifetime.
Great to hear this odd autumn afternoon, comes to me as a beautiful psd gift, thank you! (had to beg for solitude time to bawl my heart out, raging storm and all that BS in my household this morning, some good ole Dylan and sunshine clears things nicely .. )
ThePoose wrote:
His great, bitter divorce song.
Yes, but surely he goes beyond the personal here. There's some great universal truths about relationships, power, control, pity, and responsibility in here.
I'd love to take credit for the following, but it's another's analysis.
He compares himself to Jesus in his self-righteous suffering ('There's a lone soldier on the cross...'), implies that his wife is such an idiot she's going to die ('One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzing around your eyes and blood on your saddle'), and generally spews venom at the entire world. But in the final verse, at the height of his self-pity ('You'll never know the hurt I suffered, nor the pain I rise above...') he comes out with something completely different. 'And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love, and it makes me feel so sorry...' Then, in the chorus following this verse- instead of 'You're an idiot babe,' it's 'We're idiots babe,' a very important distinction.
So over the course of eight minutes, Dylan lashes out in pain and anger, only to realise that he has to take responsibility for his own situation. It's a rare document of honesty and humility for the man, all the more genuine with the fact that he is realising this in the process of writing the song. It makes it all the more affecting, to me, to know that it isn't hatred that inspires his words, but sheer pain. A great song.
Dylan at his most cynical - a beautiful version of such a sad, sad poetic song.
--Shari
Mr Bob Dylan, you'll all ways get my vote of confidence and admiration for this and all your balladodesongpoems ... 
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BGGA wrote:
I've not heard this version, but I think I prefer it to "Blood on the Tracks".
Yeah, this version doesn't have so much hatred being spit out.
AAARRRGGGHHH Another version of his worst self-pitying stamp-on-someone-who-cant-bite-back track (I hesitate to say 'song')
It's true that the lyrics of this version are at least 40% different from those of the more-common one.
Boy that's not very nice, is it? The bitterness is disappointing.
I've not heard this version, but I think I prefer it to "Blood on the Tracks".
From Blood on the Tracks. Moral: Don't marry a Playboy pinup girl.
wow, the sentiment here is really harsh 
Eeyudeuh-weeyunnnd.
Love it.
I'm new to Dylan and liking his music. Hearing this song on RP made me take notice of this great artist!
wow wow wow
His great, bitter divorce song.