Bob Dylan / Another Side Of Bob Dylan (US, mono, Columbia, CL 2193) <August 8, 1964> MAT ; 2C / 2F

Bob Dylan / Another Side Of Bob Dylan (US, mono, Columbia, CL 2193) <August 8, 1964>
(side 1) XLP-77042-2C (side 2) XLP-77043-2F
写真のカンパニー・スリーヴがオリジナルかどうかはわかりません。

ディランの4作目。2-3作目で「プロテスト・シンガー」として築いた名声を自ら拒否してみせた、「プロテスト」のない作品。なんと発表の2ヶ月前、6月9日の1日で録音されています。初めて買った「オリジナル・アルバム」がこれでしたので、僕には思い入れが深い一枚です。

To Ramona

Ramona, come closer
Shut softly your watery eyes
The pangs of your sadness
Will pass as your senses will rise
For the flowers of the city
Though breathlike, get deathlike sometimes
And there's no use in tryin'
To deal with the dyin'
Though I cannot explain that in lines

Your cracked country lips
I still wish to kiss
As to be under the strength of your skin
Your magnetic movements
Still capture the minutes I'm in
But it grieves my heart, love
To see you tryin' to be a part of
A world that just don't exist
It's all just a dream, babe
A vacuum, a scheme, babe
That sucks you into feelin' like this

I can see that your head
Has been twisted and fed
With worthless foam from the mouth
I can tell you are torn
Between stayin' and returnin'
Back to the South
You've been fooled into thinking
That the finishin' end is at hand
Yet there's no one to beat you
No one t' defeat you
'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

I've heard you say many times
That you're better than no one
And no one is better than you
If you really believe that
You know you have
Nothing to win and nothing to lose
From fixtures and forces and friends
Your sorrow does stem
That hype you and type you
Making you feel
That you gotta be exactly like them

I'd forever talk to you
But soon my words
Would turn into a meaningless ring
For deep in my heart
I know there is no help I can bring
Everything passes
Everything changes
Just do what you think you should do
And someday maybe
Who knows, baby
I'll come and be cryin' to you

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