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Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You
Bob Dylan Lyrics


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Throw my ticket out the window
Throw my suitcase out there, too
Throw my troubles out the door
I don't need them any more
'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you

I should have left this town this morning
But it was more than I could do
Oh, your love comes on so strong
And I've waited all day long
For tonight when I'll be staying here with you

Is it really any wonder
The love that a stranger might receive
You cast your spell and I went under
I find it so difficult to leave

I can hear that whistle blowin'
I see that stationmaster, too
If there's a poor boy on the street
Then let him have my seat
'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you

Throw my ticket out the window
Throw my suitcase out there, too
Throw my troubles out the door
I don't need them any more
'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you

Overall Meaning

"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You," a classic Bob Dylan love song from his 1969 album "Nashville Skyline," is a beautiful expression of love and devotion. The song tells the story of a man who is so deeply in love that he is willing to throw away everything--his troubles, his plans, and even his ticket to leave town--just to spend one more night with the woman he loves.


The song begins with the singer throwing his ticket out the window and his suitcase out the door, indicating that he has decided to stay for the night instead of leaving as he had planned. The chorus repeats the theme of staying with the person he loves, emphasizing that there is nowhere else he'd rather be than in her arms. The second verse reveals that the decision to stay was not an easy one, as the man had been planning to leave town that morning. However, his lover's love was so powerful that he could not resist staying with her for one more night.


The final verse is a beautiful demonstration of the singer's love for his partner. He hears the whistle blowing and sees the stationmaster, but he does not let that stop him from staying with his love. In fact, he even offers his seat to someone else who needs it, demonstrating his selflessness and devotion. All in all, "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" is a beautiful song about the power of love and the lengths we will go to be with the people we love.


Line by Line Meaning

Throw my ticket out the window
I don't need to run away anymore because I have found love and will be staying with my partner tonight.


Throw my suitcase out there, too
I am leaving all my baggage behind because I am not going anywhere. I will stay with my partner and do not need anything else.


Throw my troubles out the door
I am going to forget about any problems or worries that I had because I am going to stay with my partner and enjoy their love.


I don't need them any more
My partner's love is all that I need right now and I no longer need anything else from my past or present.


'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you
Tonight, I will spend my time with my partner and won't leave them. I want to be with them and enjoy their love for as long as possible.


I should have left this town this morning
I had plans to leave this place but I couldn't follow through because I felt the strength of my partner's love and couldn't leave them behind.


But it was more than I could do
I was unable to leave because the love that I felt was too strong and I could not resist its pull.


Oh, your love comes on so strong
My partner's love is very intense and powerful, and it overwhelms me in a good way.


And I've waited all day long
I have been eagerly anticipating spending time with my partner and have been waiting all day for this moment.


For tonight when I'll be staying here with you
Tonight, I will be with my partner and will not leave, as their love has captivated me and I want to stay with them forever.


Is it really any wonder
It is not surprising that I fell for my partner and their love, as it is so strong and captivating.


The love that a stranger might receive
Even a stranger can feel the love that my partner gives out, as it is so abundant and powerful.


You cast your spell and I went under
My partner has enchanted me with their love and I am under their spell, unable to resist their charm and allure.


I find it so difficult to leave
I don't want to leave my partner, as their love is so strong and I am completely attached to them.


I can hear that whistle blowin'
I am aware that the train is about to leave, but I don't want to go as I want to stay with my partner.


I see that stationmaster, too
I know that I should leave because the stationmaster is there, but I am struggling to part ways with my partner.


If there's a poor boy on the street
Even if there is someone out there with less than me, I don't mind giving them my seat on the train.


Then let him have my seat
I will give my seat on the train to anyone who needs it, as I am staying here with my partner and don't need to leave.


'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you
I will stay with my partner tonight and nothing else matters because their love is all that I need.




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Written by: Bob Dylan

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@juancamacho5746

Throw my ticket out the window
Throw my suitcase out there, too
Throw my troubles out the door
I don't need them any more
'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you

I should have left this town this morning
But it was more than I could do
For, your love comes on so strong
And I've waited all day long
For tonight when I'll be staying here with you

Is it really any wonder
The love that a stranger might receive?
You cast your spell and I went under
I find it so difficult to leave

I can hear that whistle blowin'
I see that stationmaster, too
If there's a poor boy on the street
Then let him have my seat
'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you
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Throw my ticket out the window
Throw my suitcase out there, too
Throw my troubles out the door
I don't need them any more
'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you



@halfaday1

Throw my ticket out the window
Throw my suitcase out there, too
Throw my troubles out the door
I don't need them any more
'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you
I should have left this town this morning
But it was more than I could do
Oh, your love comes on so strong
And I've waited all day long
For tonight when I'll be staying here with you
Is it really any wonder
The love that a stranger might receive
You cast your spell and I went under
I find it so difficult to leave
I can hear that whistle blowin'
I see that stationmaster, too
If there's a poor boy on the street
Then let him have my seat
'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you
Throw my ticket out the window
Throw my suitcase out there, too
Throw my troubles out the door
I don't need them any more
'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you



@user-ip9yu7lp1q

Tonight I'll be Staying Here wih you
์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐค, ๊ทธ๋Œ€์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์žˆ์„๋ž˜์š”
Nashville Skyline (1969)

Throw my ticket out the window,
์ฐฝ ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ์ฐจํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋˜์ ธ๋ฒ„๋ ค์š”
Throw my suitcase out there, too,
๊ทธ ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ๋„ ๋˜์ ธ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์š”
Throw my troubles out the door,
๋ฌธ ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๋“ค์„ ๋˜์ ธ๋ฒ„๋ฆด๋ž˜์š”
I don't need them any more
๋” ์ด์ƒ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”

'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you.
์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐค ๊ทธ๋Œ€์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”.

I should have left this town this morning
์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ์— ์ด ๋งˆ์„์„ ๋– ๋‚ฌ์–ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
But it was more than I could do.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๊ฑด ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์ง€์š”.
Oh, your love comes on so strong
์•„, ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์˜ค๊ณ ,
And I've waited all day long
๋‚˜๋Š” ์˜จ์ข…์ผ์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค์™”์ง€์š”
For tonight when I'll be staying here with you.
์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐค, ๊ทธ๋Œ€์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ์š”.

Is it really any wonder
๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ •๋ง๋กœ ์•„๋ฌด๋ ‡์ง€๋„ ์•Š์•˜๋‚˜์š”?
The love that a stranger might receive.
๋‚ฏ์„  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋ฐ›์„ ๋งŒํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘,
You cast your spell and I went under,
๋‹น์‹ ์€ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์„ ์™ธ์ณค๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ์— ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ”์–ด์š”.
I find it so difficult to leave.
๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋ž€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์— ๊ฐ€๊น์ฃ .

I can hear that whistle blowin',
ํœ˜ํŒŒ๋žŒ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”
I see that stationmaster, too,
๊ทธ ์—ญ์žฅ๋„ ๋ณด์•˜๊ณ ์š”.
If there's a poor boy on the street,
๋งŒ์•ฝ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์œ„์— ๊ฐ€์—พ์€ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด,
Then let him have my seat
๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ค„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.

Throw my ticket out the window,
์ฐฝ ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ์ฐจํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋˜์งˆ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.
Throw my suitcase out there, too,
๊ทธ ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ๋„ ๋˜์งˆ ๊ฑฐ๊ณ ์š”.
Throw my troubles out the door,
๋ฌธ ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋“ค์„ ๋˜์ ธ๋ฒ„๋ ค์š”.
I don't need them any more
๋” ์ด์ƒ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”.



All comments from YouTube:

@Samuel-sg2iv

Every song i've ever wanted to write Bob has already wrote it. This man is to skilled for his own good.

@326cher

Bobโ€™s voice so melodic here! I love him so much!

@emotionalfish1181

My girlfriend and I fell in love listening to Dylan. Named our daughter Dylan. Only woman I've ever truly loved. How do you love again? I sure af don't know.

@tramp2827

Bob has a voice for every occasion

@kensteel4469

Greatest artist of his time

@G8GT364CI

This is the best song on the album.

@spencerdobkin9479

This album is so freaking good...

@ustheserfs

Frightening how effortless this is executed

@MichaelHoare-bh5pg

Bob Dylan's voice is more mellow and less nasal in this album.

@michaeldonovan4793

the best pure voice dylan ever sang...

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