This fine fine love song (sic) posted yesterday on YouTube and seemingly amateur phone shot film but the sound is eminently listenable and it is such a great performance I just had to!
Born in Time
(Under a Red Sky 1990)
Born in Time
WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN
In the lonely night
In the blinking stardust of a pale blue light
You’re comin’ thru to me in black and white
When we were made of dreams
You’re blowing down the shaky street
You’re hearing my heart beat
In the record-breaking heat
Where we were born in time
Not one more night, not one more kiss
Not this time baby, no more of this
Takes too much skill, takes too much will
It’s revealing
You came, you saw, just like the law
You married young, just like your ma
You tried and tried, you made me slide
You left me reelin’ with this feelin’
On the rising curve
Where the ways of nature will test every nerve
You won’t get anything you don’t deserve
Where we were born in time
You pressed me once, you pressed me twice
You hang the flame, you’ll pay the price
Oh babe, that fire
Is still smokin’
You were snow, you were rain
You were striped, you were plain
Oh babe, truer words
Have not been spoken or broken
In the hills of mystery
In the foggy web of destiny
You can have what’s left of me
Where we were born in time
Copyright © 1990 by Special Rider Music
I include the lyrics here so you can hear and follow what Bob does with most (all?) his songs whilst in full flow and when he has a mind to and the switches and alterations in lyrics often seemingly as he goes along. Change a word here, and switch a phrase there. This is deceptively hard if you ask me [nobody is - ED] How does he DO that!?
Bob Dylan - vocal & guitar
Bucky Baxter - pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar
Larry Campbell - guitar
Tony Garnier - bass
David Kemper - drums & percussion
* so I did! 56 times he has done it live!!!!
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