Bob Dylan's Dream
from Hard Place To Find by Tobin Mueller
BOB DYLAN'S DREAM by Bob Dylan
(with additional lyrics from My Back Pages)
While riding on a train goin’ west
I fell asleep for to take my rest
I dreamed a dream that made me sad
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had
With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon
Where we together weathered many a storm
Laughin’ and singin’ till the early hours of the morn
With haunted hearts through the heat and the cold
We never thought we could ever get old
We thought we'd sit forever in fun
But our chances were really a million to one
As easy it was to tell black from white
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
Our choices were few, the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split
(ah, but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now)
Many a year has passed and gone
And many a gamble has been lost and won
And many a road taken by many a friend
And each one I’ve never seen again
By the old wooden stove where our hats were hung
Our words were told, our songs were sung
We longed for nothin’ and were quite satisfied
Talkin’ and a-jokin’ about the world outside
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
That we could sit simply in that room again
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
I’d give it all gladly if our lives could be like that
Song Notes: Dylan wrote this when he was 24 years old. I first sang it when I was 17, following closely the Peter, Paul & Mary version. I am finally old enough to have the song apply fully.
Like several other tracks on this album, every verse is played differently, creating through variation a sense of storytelling and journeying.
The interjection of the line "I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now," is from Dylan's My Back Pages. There are just so many great Dylan songs.
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