No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
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The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn

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That he not busy being born
Is busy dying

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Nobody had heard anything like this before.
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No one had heard anything like this before.
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There was a word of mouth.
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And by the way, a crowd of 1,200 people
isn't that big a crowd...

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if you stop and think about it.
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That's about how many people
are waiting for the D train...

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at Sheridan Square right now.
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While preachers preach of evil fates
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Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates

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Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States

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Sometimes must have to stand naked
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Around that time he asked me
if I wanted to go with him to...

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You know, he had a date in Chicago.
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Did I want to come along?
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What struck me was that he was at one...
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or he became identical with his breath.
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And Dylan had become a column of air,
so to speak, at certain moments...

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where his total physical
and mental focus was...

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this single breath coming out of his body.
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He had a found a way in public
to be almost like a shaman...

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with all of his intelligence
and consciousness...

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focused on his breath.
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So don't fear if you hear
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A foreign sound to your ear
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It's alright, Ma
:22:36
I'm only sighing
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He was doing more and more
prose writing, I think, at the time, too.

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I think he was spending more time...
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actually sitting down and writing stuff...
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that he wasn't necessarily going to sing.
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And then finding out
that some of that could be sung as well.

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Of war and peace the truth just twists
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Its curfew gull just glides

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