Bob Dylan - My Back Pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
Well meet on edges, soon, said i
Proud neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then
Im younger than that now

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
Rip down all hate, I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
Im younger than that now

Girls faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
Im younger than that now

A self-ordained professors tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
Equality, I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
Im younger than that now

In a soldiers stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that Id become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My existence led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow
Ah, but I was so much older then
Im younger than that now

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
Im younger than that now

 

 

Another Side Of Bob Dylan ('64)

※ 아련하게 들려오는 어쿠스틱 연주에 이어지는
밥 딜런의 탄식이 먼곳을 응시하는 앨범쟈켓의
포즈와 절묘한 매치를 보여주고있다.
"예전 난 너무 늙었었고 지금은 그때보다 더 젊어"
하는부분의 가사가 자신의 지난날 음악관을
후회하는건지 아니면 이듬해, '65년 나올 앨범
"Highway 61 Revisited" 의 포크롹 으로의
전향을 예견한건지는 모르겠다. 하여간 ...

이곡은 '92년 뉴욕 매디슨 스퀘어 가든에서 열린
밥 딜런 30주년 기념 콘서트에서 버즈의 로져 맥귄을
필두로 탐 페티, 닐 영, 에릭 크랩튼, 밥 딜런
죠지 해리슨 순으로 각 소절을 나눠 불렀는데
'67년 발표된 버즈의 "Younger Than Yesterday"
앨범에 수록된 버즈 스타일의 전형적인 소프트롹으로 불러
그버젼이 원곡보다 알려졌다는데 아쉬움이 남는다.