Tangled Up in Blue
Tangled Up in Blue is a folk rock song by Bob Dylan , which he produced himself and which was first released in 1975 on the album Blood on the Tracks on Columbia Records .
Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 68th on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time in 2005. The piece is generally considered one of Dylan's best works. In its 2002 list of the best Dylan songs, Uncut Tangled Up in Blue magazine ranked second behind Like a Rolling Stone .
Recording and creation
Dylan recorded the album and single version on December 30, 1974 in Minneapolis . Even after the song was released, Dylan did not let him rest and continued working on the lyrics, so that later live versions at concerts sometimes differ greatly in terms of the text. Dylan himself considers the version on the 1984 Real Live album to be the "best version".
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The text describes an unusual romance. In the first stanza the lyrical ego looks at the relationship retrospectively; It was clear from the start that it would be tough. The next stanza shows how the two met. It was an argument he had freed her from, even if she was still married. They left the place together and parted amicably, even if they had noticed right away that there was a high probability that they would meet again one day on the street. The next stanza is about the fact that it did not come out of the mind of the lyrical self; he, on the other hand, shackled his way through various jobs and could often just think of women with women. In the fourth verse they meet again in a topless bar, where she works and speaks to him (he himself didn't play with the idea). She takes him home and obviously offers him drugs (and offered me a pipe) . They read the work of an Italian poet of the 13th century together; where the lyric self has the feeling that the lines and verses come straight from his heart and were written for them. But in the sixth stanza they become estranged again. Dylan writes:
- Then he started into dealing with slaves
- And something inside of him died
- She had to sell everything she owned
- And froze up inside
They separate and in the seventh and final stanza the ego decides that it wants to win them back. He thinks he realizes that they have always seen everything the same, just from a different point of view. So he finds himself alone on the street and keeps looking.
Cover versions
Tangled Up in Blue has been covered frequently, including by Jerry Garcia , Dickey Betts and Great White .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ lastfm.de
- ↑ rocklistmusic.co.uk
- ↑ Toby Creswell (2007), Tangled Up in Blue, 1001 Songs, p. 469