So much oppression
 Can’t keep track of it no more
 So much oppression
 Can’t keep track of it no more
 Sons becoming husbands to their mothers
 And old men turning young daughters into whores
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Song: “Gonna Change My Way of Thinking”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gonna-change-my-way-thinking/
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 An’ here I sit so patiently
 Waiting to find out what price
 You have to pay to get out of
 Going through all these things twice
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Song: “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”
Album: Blonde on Blonde
First played: 1976-04-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/stuck-inside-mobile-memphis-blues-again/
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 I believe in you when winter turn to summer
 I believe in you when white turn to black
 I believe in you even though I be outnumbered
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Song: “I Believe in You”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-believe-you/
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 Oh! Lord! Just like mine!
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Song: “John Brown”
Album: MTV Unplugged
First played: 1962-10-15
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/john-brown/
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 He saw an animal that liked to growl
 Big furry paws and he liked to howl
 Great big furry back and furry hair
 “Ah, think I’ll call it a bear”
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Song: “Man Gave Names to All the Animals”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/man-gave-names-all-animals/
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 Temptation’s page flies out the door
 You follow, find yourself at war
 Watch waterfalls of pity roar
 You feel to moan but unlike before
 You discover that you’d just be one more
 Person crying
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Song: “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1964-09-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding/
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 That’s how it is when things disintegrate
 And I don’t know how much longer I can wait
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Song: “Can’t Wait”
Album: Time out of Mind
First played: 1997-10-24
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cant-wait/
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6 drummers that Bob Dylan likes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtNsP8TyDCY

 Oh what dear daughter ’neath the sun
 Would treat a father so
 To wait upon him hand and foot
 And always tell him, “No?”
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Song: “Tears of Rage”
Album: The Basement Tapes
First played: 1989-06-26
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tears-rage/
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 All of those awful things that I have heard
 I don’t want to believe them, all I want is your word
 So darlin’, I’m countin’ on you
 Tell me that it isn’t true
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Song: “Tell Me That It Isn’t True”
Album: Nashville Skyline
First played: 2000-03-10
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tell-me-it-isnt-true/
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 Summer days, summer nights are gone
 Summer days and the summer nights are gone
 I know a place where there’s still somethin’ going on
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Song: “Summer Days”
Album: Love and Theft
First played: 2001-10-05
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/summer-days/
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 I’m searching for phrases to sing your praises
 I need to tell someone
 It’s soon after midnight and my day has just begun
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Song: “Soon After Midnight”
Album: Tempest
First played: 2012-11-20
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/soon-after-midnight/
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 The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone
 Causes Galileo’s math book to get thrown
 At Delilah who sits worthlessly alone
 But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter
--
Song: “Tombstone Blues”
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
First played: 1965-08-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tombstone-blues/
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 I don’t need no alibi when I’m spending time with you
 I’ve heard all of them rumors and you have heard ’em too
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Song: “Shot of Love”
Album: Shot of Love
First played: 1981-07-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shot-love/
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 Hello stranger - Hello and goodbye
 You rule the land but so do I
 You lusty old mule - you got a poisoned brain
 I’m gonna marry you to a ball and chain
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Song: “False Prophet”
Album: Private: False Prophet
First played: 2021-11-02
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/false-prophet/
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 I got up early so I could greet the Goddess of the Dawn
 I painted my wagon - I abandoned all hope and I crossed the Rubicon
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Song: “Crossing the Rubicon”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2022-03-03
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/crossing-the-rubicon/
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 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
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Song: “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1965-02-12
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/love-minus-zero-no-limit/
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 I’m your man, I’m trying to recover the sweet love that we knew
 You understand that my heart can’t go on beating without you
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Song: “Can’t Wait”
Album: Time out of Mind
First played: 1997-10-24
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cant-wait/
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 Well, I wanna be your lover, baby
 I don’t wanna be your boss
 Don’t say I never warned you
 When your train gets lost
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Song: “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry”
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
First played: 1965-07-25
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/it-takes-lot-laugh-it-takes-train-cry/
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Jeff Bridges is my guest on today’s episode of Kyle Meredith With…! We get into lost tapes, iconic roles, and what it’s like to jam with #BobDylan —because of course The Dude has stories for days.

https://consequence.net/2025/04/jeff-bridges-slow-magic-bob-dylan-podcast/