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Love Minus Zero / No Limit

My love she speaks like silence

Without ideals or violence

She doesn't have to say she's faithful

Yet she's true, like ice, like fire

People carry roses

And make promises by the hours

My love she laughs like the flowers

Valentines can't buy her.

In the dime stores and bus stations

People talk of situations

Read books, repeat quotations

Draw conclusions on the wall

Some speak of the future

My love she speaks softly

She knows there's no success like failure

And that failure's no succes at all.

The cloak and dagger dangles

Madams light the candles

In ceremonies of the horsemen

Even the pawn must hold a grudge

Statues made of match sticks

Crumble into one another

My love winks, she does not bother

She knows too much to argue or to judge.

The bridge at midnight trembles

The country doctor rambles

Bankers' nieces seek perfection

Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring

The wind howls like a hammer

The night blows rainy

My love she's like some raven

At my window with a broken wing.

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Dirge

Hmmmm... I *guess* that's a love song... I definitely agree that it's a great song, though...

Dirge

I hate myself for lovin' you and the weakness that it showed

You were just a painted face on a trip down Suicide Road.

The stage was set, the lights went out all around the old hotel,

I hate myself for lovin' you and I'm glad the curtain fell.

I hate that foolish game we played and the need that was expressed

And the mercy that you showed to me, who ever would have guessed?

I went out on Lower Broadway and I felt that place within,

That hollow place where martyrs weep and angels play with sin.

Heard your songs of freedom and man forever stripped,

Acting out his folly while his back is being whipped.

Like a slave in orbit, he's beaten 'til he's tame,

All for a moment's glory and it's a dirty, rotten shame.

There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them,

In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem.

The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet,

I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt.

Can't recall a useful thing you ever did for me

'Cept pat me on the back one time when I was on my knees.

We stared into each other's eyes 'til one of us would break,

No use to apologize, what diff'rence would it make?

So sing your praise of progress and of the Doom Machine,

The naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

Lady Luck, who shines on me, will tell you where I'm at,

I hate myself for lovin' you, but I should get over that.

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I Believe In You (love for God, not woman)

Whether Bob Dylan wrote the song "I Believe In You" about the love for God or a woman has been up for debate ever since the song was recorded.

Here is what the liner notes in Bob Dylan's box set "Biograph" says about the song.

I BELIEVE IN YOU

Recorded in Muscel Shoals 5/79

A beautifully crafted track, from the "Slow Train Coming" sessions, "I Believe In You" is an ode to commitment. One can only imagine the studio atmosphere on the Muscle Shoals evening when Dylan recorded this powerful vocal performance. It's one of his most intimate and best. Many would later conjecture about the object of his feelings. Was it a higher being? A woman? A child? Did it really matter?

First performed in public on Saturday Night Live in October 1979, the song would hover close to the top of Dylan's subsequent concert performances.

Damn, I would love to get this song live just once! Though the odds are against me as Bob currently only performs it a handful of times each year.

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....interesting!

Didn't he play it this past March just before or after the TO run??

2004-04-12 Atlanta, GA, USA

2004-04-10 Columbia, SC, USA

2004-04-09 Asheville, NC, USA

2004-04-06 Norfolk, VA, USA

2004-04-04 Washington, DC, USA

2004-03-29 Philadelphia, PA, USA

2004-03-26 Boston, MA, USA

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Dirge

Hmmmm... I *guess* that's a love song... I definitely agree that it's a great song, though...

Not all love Songs are about love gone good especially given the issues in Bob's life during those years that song was recorded.Although,I imagine we interpid this song completely different.

Anyway,I'll add a couple more

Love Sick

Don't Think Twice,It's All Right

Alberta

All over you

Blood in my eyes

I Want You

Man in me

I could go on.... ::

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