Bob Dylan, 1989 – Political World

Political World

Editor’s note: Today’s posts are for all the sad folks I have had to listen to for most of my adult life who said they couldn’t get past the voice (actually many voices) that this year’s Nobel Laureate for Literature spoke so much truth in. It is also for illiterate who he never matched what he did early in his career.

We live in a political world

Love don't have any place

We're living in times

Where men commit crimes

And crime don't have any face.

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We live in a political world

Icicles hanging down

Wedding bells ring

And angels sing

Clouds cover up the ground.

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We live in a political world

Wisdom is thrown in jail

It rots in a cell

Is misguided as hell

Leaving no one to pick up a trail.

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We live in a political world

Where mercy walks the plank

Life is in mirrors

Death disappears

Up the steps into the nearest bank.

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We live in a political world

Where courage is a thing of the past

Houses are haunted

Children unwanted

The next day could be your last.

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We live in a political world

The one we can see and feel

But there's no one to check

It's all a stacked deck

We all know for sure that it's real.

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We live in a political world

In the cities of lonesome fear

Little by little

You turn in the middle

But you're never sure why you're here.

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We live in a political world

Under the microscope

You can travel anywhere

And hang yourself there

You always got more than enough rope.

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We live in a political world

Turning and trashing about

As soon as you're awake

You're trained to take

What looks like the easy way out.

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We live in a political world

Where peace is not welcome at all

It's turned away from the door

To wonder some more

Or put up against the wall.

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We live in a political world

Everything is hers and his

Climb into the frame

And shout God's name

But you're never sure what it is.

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