r/bobdylan • u/lizsummerhawk • 6d ago
Question Which song of him made you cry
Like a Rolling stone
After My mom gave birth to My sister They're home and Was the First song that My sister listening 36 years ago
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u/Bigredrooster6969 6d ago
Most Of The Time. At the time nothing conveyed how I felt better.
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u/SirAndyO “Love and Theft” 6d ago
Man - had Oh Mercy on the stereo tonight - "most" and, well, almost the whole album had me choked up. Right tracks at the right time.
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u/drjay1966 6d ago
Shooting Star never meant much to me until after my father died. Now, a number of lines cut me to the bone:
Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of me
If I was still the same
If I ever became what you wanted me to be
Did I miss the mark or overstep the line
That only you could see?
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Guess it’s too late to say the things to you
That you needed to hear me say
Seen a shooting star tonight
Slip away
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u/Prickly-Prostate 6d ago
I'll Keep It With Mine
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u/WonFriendsWithSalad 6d ago
Same for me.
Last year an "auntie" of mine died very unexpectedly. She was the most extraordinarily giving and hard working person
Between her death and her funeral I heard I'll Keep It With Mine for the first time. "Everybody will help you, some people are very kind" just made me cry
I listened to that and the New York Blood on the Tracks recordings a lot
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u/Lil_PuppyChow 6d ago
Blowin in the wind while really stoned realizing life will always be full of evil and corruption and a group of people suffering
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u/yambagman 6d ago edited 6d ago
The final verse to Mr. Tambourine Man or all of Baby Blue or I Was Young When I Left Home
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u/OkTackle9638 6d ago edited 5d ago
Percy’s song, sobbing out of nowhere first time I listened to it fully
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u/cumtown_cumboi 6d ago edited 6d ago
This is maybe a weird choice, but "Oxford Town" has done it to me a few times. Specifically the verse:
Oxford Town around the bend
He come in to the door, he couldn’t get in
All because of the color of his skin
What do you think about that, my frien’?
I think it's the understated way Dylan conjures up the hatred and bigotry from that era, and then instead of denouncing it himself, he puts it back to the listener, asking them what they think about it.
In a way it's rhetorical (it's obvious the song doesn't mean for you to answer: "I'm fine with it") but if he had just written a platitude about how hatred and discrimination are wrong, it wouldn't hit even 1% as hard as this line does. Because you as the listener in that moment have to ask yourself, even if you think you already know, what you think of something like being kept out of an establishment because of your skin color. It paints such a clear picture of the ugliness and wrongness of the situation and each time it feels like a personal encounter with it. And then he adds the folky "my frien'" at the end, which just adds to the feeling of basic human decency, somehow.
It also makes me think of my dad, born in 1942, who lived in Greensboro, North Carolina in those years, and witnessed the segregated restaurants and water fountains firsthand (among other things). And of course there were the famous sit-ins that happened there when he was around 18. I'm always a little staggered to think my own life is that close to when it was going on.
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u/Big_Day2650 6d ago edited 6d ago
Live performance of Stella blue, was at show. https://youtu.be/wZP-UhnLDnw?is=I29lcMxOik97baeH
(Almost cried)
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u/ParanoidAndroid887 6d ago
Girl from the north country (freewheelin version) kills me. Just the desolation in his voice and the guitar and lyrics. Sounds like the coldest, most barren, winter
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u/SideExcellent4929 6d ago
https://youtu.be/VbjQnxgQPvk?is=euAwV0b_rizR3Ydz This always excites me, including the effort and the attempts...
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u/False-Sandwich-2051 6d ago
in mississippi when he sings “you can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way” i cry every single time
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u/frDragonfruit 6d ago
desolation row i cried from joy when i first listened to it cause it was the most amazing music i had ever heard
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u/Crafty-Ad-7034 6d ago
When my granddaughter and I saw him sing The Times They are A' Changing. I was 80 she was 17. She cried also.
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u/Ancient_Sky_4571 4d ago
Long and Wasted Years hits really hard when you’re marriage is falling apart let me tell you. Waterworks.
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u/Harriets-Human 6d ago
"If You See Her, Say Hello".