Dylan started his musical odyssey in 1959 when he began playing in Dinkytown, Minneapolis while attending the University of Minnesota. Shortly after starting to play he changed his stage name to Bob Dylan, after being influenced by the poetry of Dylan Thomas before legally changing his name in 1962.
Much of his best known work is from the 1960s, when he became an informal documentarian and reluctant figurehead of American unrest, promoted by Joan Baez. Some of his songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'", became anthems of the anti-war and civil rights movements, with Joan Baez and Dylan singing together at the March on Washington in 1963. However he later became disenchanted with the civil liberty protest scene, feeling that he had been used by them.
His album Bringing It All Back Home marked a move away from the folk scene and a move towards rock and roll and Dylan began to consciously distance himself from his early association with civil rights. He also started to become irritated when being interviewed, often given facetious or irreverent answers to questions. Bringing It All Back Home was a controversial album as it the first on which he played electric guitar. This was seen by some of his fans as a betrayal of this folk roots, with some saying that it obscured his meaningful and poetic lyrics.
The second half of the 1960s was marked by a string of well received releases, with his song "Like a Rolling Stone", released in July of 1965, later being named "The Greatest Song of All Time" by Rolling Stone magazine in 2004, placing #1 in a list of 500 titles. It also marked the formation of Dylan's backing band The Hawks (who would later call themselves simply The Band). Dylan embarked on a world tour of Australia and Europe in 1966, during which he seemed to be under a lot of strain and pressure by both his fans, the music press and his own promoters. Dylan himself admitted that he began taking drugs seriously whilst on this tour, and found it immensely hard work. On returning to New York he crashed his motorbike, sustaining serious injuries in the process, and went into a period of withdrawal while he recuperated. During the late 1960s, Dylan again changed stylistic tradition, moving away from the psychedelic culture of the time. It was then that he recorded All Along the Watchtower, perhaps more famously recorded by Jimi Hendrix.
The 1970s were a period during which Dylan was more sporadic in his output, releasing some poorly received LPs. He rarely appeared in person until 1974, when he began touring again with his backing band The Band. He also wrote one of his most extensively covered songs, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, as well as what is now recognised as one of his best albums Blood On The Tracks. Towards the end of the 1970s, Dylan discovered Christ, and released some albums of gospel music. He started to talk to the crowd about his faith during his performances, and wouldn't play any of his early work, which alienated some of his previous fans.
Dylan today still remains an influential and popular artist; despite a period of little note between 1980-2000, his 2006 album Modern Times reached the US chart at #1, as did his 2009 album Together Through Life, in the US, Britain, France and several other countries. His 2012 album Tempest was also critically acclaimed. Since 1988, Dylan has been on the so-called Never Ending Tour, during which his performances have provoked controversy, with some critics claiming that his lyrics have become incomprehensible, an experience which is not helped by his tendency to change his set-list and vocals almost every performance.
Bob Dylan's strong influence over the past few years is becoming even more prominent amongst a growing group of younger emerging artists such as George Ellias and Devendra Banhart. Dylan's early lyrics incorporated politics, social commentary, philosophy and literary influences, defying existing pop music conventions and appealing widely to the counterculture of the time. While expanding and personalizing musical styles, Dylan has shown steadfast devotion to traditions of American song, from folk and country/blues to rock and roll and rockabilly, to Gaelic balladry, even jazz, swing and Broadway.
Dylan performs with the guitar, keyboard and harmonica. Backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s. He has also recently performed alongside other iconic artists, such as Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty and Eric Clapton. Although his contributions as a performer and recording artist have been central to his career, his songwriting is generally held as his highest accomplishment.
Nobel Prize for Literature (2016) - On October 13, 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for โfor having created new poetic expressions within the great American song traditionโ. The prestigious award has been given annually since 1901 and previous Nobel Laureates for Literature include Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett. Here is the speech written by Dylan, although unable to attend:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/arts/bob-dylan-nobel-prize-acceptance-speech.html?_r=0
To Be Alone with You
Bob Dylan Lyrics
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Just you and me
Now won't you tell me true
Ain't that the way it oughta be
To hold each other tight
The whole night through
Everything is always right
When I'm alone with you
To be alone with you
At the close of the day
With only you in view
While evening slips away
It only goes to show
That while life's pleasures be few
The only one I know
Is when I'm alone with you
They say that nighttime is the right time
To be with the one you love
Too many thoughts get in the way in the day
But you're always what I'm thinkin' of
I wish the night were here
Bringin' me all of your charms
When only you are near
To hold me in your arms
I'll always thank the Lord
When my working day's through
I get my sweet reward
To be alone with you
The lyrics of To Be Alone with You by Bob Dylan express a desire by the singer to be in the company of their lover. The singer wishes to be alone with their lover, away from the bustle of the society, where they can hold each other tight and be in each other's company. The lyrics speak of the singer's longing for calm and peaceful essentials in their life, which can only be found in the arms of their lover.
The theme of the song reflects the need for intimacy and comfort in a world that is often chaotic and unreliable. The singer finds repose in the company of his lover, as if all is well with the world when they are together. The lyrics also express the joy and gratitude felt by the singer for being able to spend time with their loved one after a long day's work.
To Be Alone with You demonstrates the simplicity that is often present in Dylan's lyricism, yet with a pointed clarity that captures the power of intimacy and comfort in a lasting love relationship. With a gentle and unwavering tune, the song reminds listeners of the bliss of spending intimate moments with their loved one.
Line by Line Meaning
To be alone with you
Expresses the desire to be with the person they love in solitude
Just you and me
To be with only the person they love without any distractions
Now won't you tell me true
Asking their loved one to be honest with their feelings
Ain't that the way it oughta be
Asks if being alone together is how things should be
To hold each other tight
To physically embrace each other
The whole night through
For the entire duration of the night
Everything is always right
Being with the person they love makes everything feel perfect
When I'm alone with you
Reiterates that they only need the presence of their loved one to feel content
At the close of the day
Refers to the end of the day, usually when they are tired or ready to relax
With only you in view
To only see and focus on their loved one
While evening slips away
As time passes, the night progresses and they spend it with their loved one
It only goes to show
Acknowledges that despite life's limitations, they are happy when they are with their loved one
That while life's pleasures be few
Recognizing that life has very few pleasures to offer
The only one I know
The one thing they know for sure is that being alone with their loved one is their greatest pleasure
Is when I'm alone with you
Reaffirms that their sole source of happiness is being with their loved one
They say that nighttime is the right time
Refers to the belief that nighttime is the best time to be with someone you love
To be with the one you love
To be with the person you care about the most
Too many thoughts get in the way in the day
During the day, there are many distractions and responsibilities that get in the way of spending quality time with their loved one
But you're always what I'm thinkin' of
Their thoughts are consistently consumed by their loved one
I wish the night were here
Expresses a longing for nighttime to arrive
Bringin' me all of your charms
Refers to their loved one's attractive qualities and personality traits
When only you are near
Wishes to be near and intimate with their loved one
To hold me in your arms
Desires physical affection and intimacy from their loved one
I'll always thank the Lord
Expresses gratitude for their blessings
When my working day's through
Refers to finishing work for the day
I get my sweet reward
Being able to be with their loved one is a reward for their hard work
To be alone with you
Reiterates the importance of being alone with their loved one
Lyrics ยฉ Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: BOB DYLAN
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Juan Camacho
To be alone with you
Just you and me
Now won't you tell me true
Ain't that the way it oughta be
To hold each other tight
The whole night through
Everything is always right
When I'm alone with you
To be alone with you
At the close of the day
With only you in view
While evening slips away
It only goes to show
That while life's pleasures be few
The only one I know
Is when I'm alone with you
They say that nighttime is the right time
To be with the one you love
Too many thoughts get in the way in the day
But you're always what I'm thinkin' of
I wish the night were here
Bringin' me all of your charms
When only you are near
To hold me in your arms
I'll always thank the Lord
When my working day's through
I get my sweet reward
To be alone with you
๋น์ ํ์ธ์
To be alone with you
๋น์ ๊ณผ ๋จ๋์ด์ ์๋ ๊ฒ
Nashville Skyline (1969)
To be alone with you
๋น์ ๊ณผ ๋จ๋๋ก ์์ผ๋,
Just you and me
๊ทธ์ ๋น์ ๊ณผ ๋๋ง์ด๋,
Now won't you tell me true
์ด์ ์ง์ค์ ๋งํด ์ฃผ์ง ์์๋์?
Ain't that the way it oughta be?
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ด์ผ ํ์ง ์์๊น์?
To hold each other tight
์๋ก๋ฅผ ๊ฝ ๋ถ์ก๊ณ
The whole night through
์จ ๋ฐค์ ์๊ณ ์์ผ๋,
Ev'rything is always right
๋ชจ๋ ์ผ์ ํญ์ ์ข๊ฒ ํ๋ฌ๊ฐ์ง์.
When I'm alone with you.
๋น์ ๊ณผ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋จ๋์ด์ ์๋ค๋ฉด.
To be alone with you At the close of the day
๋น์ ๊ณผ ๋จ๋๋ก ์๋ ๊ฒ์, ํ ํ๋ฃจ๊ฐ ๋๋๋ ์๊ธฐ์
With only you in view
๋์๋ ์ค์ง ๋น์ ๋ง์ด ๋ณด์ด๊ณ
While evening slips away
์ ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ํ๋ฅด๋ ๋์
It only goes to show
๋จ ํ๋์ ์ฌ์ค์ด ๋๋ฌ๋๊ณ ์๊ตฐ์.
That while life's pleasures be few
์ธ์์ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์์ ์กฐ๊ธ๋ฐ์ ์์ง๋ง
The only one I know
๋ด๊ฐ ์๋ ์ ์ผํ ๊ฒ์
Is when I'm alone with you.
๋น์ ๊ณผ ๋จ๋์ด์ ์์ ๋์์.
They say that nighttime is the right time
๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ฐค๋ฆ์ ๋๊ฐ ์๋ง์ ๋๋ผ๊ณ ๋ค ํ์ฃ .
To be with the one you love
๋น์ ์ด ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํด์ผ ํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด
Too many thoughts get in the way in the day
๋๋ฌด๋ ๋ง์ ์๊ฐ์ด ํ๋ฃป๋์ ์ค์ณ๊ฐ์ง๋ง
But you're always what I'm thinkin' of
๋น์ ์ ํญ์ ๋ด๊ฐ ์๊ฐํด์๋ ์ฌ๋์ด์์.
I wish the night were here
๊ทธ ๋ฐค์ด ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ก ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์
Bringin' me all of your charms
๋น์ ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ์ค๋ ๋ฐค์ด์ง์.
When only you are near To hold me in your arms.
์ค์ง ๋น์ ์ด ๊ฐ๊น์ด ์์ ๋ ํ๋ก ๋ ๋ถ์ก์ ๋์ด์ง์.
I'll always thank the Lord
ํญ์ ์ ์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆด ๊ฑฐ์์.
When my working day's through
๋ ธ๋์ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ค ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ฉด
I get my sweet reward To be alone with you.
๋ฌ์ฝคํ ํฌ์์ ๋ฐ์ง์. ๋น์ ๊ณผ ๋จ๋์ด์ ์๋ ๊ฒ.
ethan
Extremely underrated song.
don cahooti
not by me .
Kennedy
Same
Stoopstified
One of the albums of my life..1970.. Boulder Colorado..my dad and his roommate had this cranked..sun shining,.. polishing their 911's..I've listened to this album for 50 years..it takes me back to those days..
Juan Camacho
To be alone with you
Just you and me
Now won't you tell me true
Ain't that the way it oughta be
To hold each other tight
The whole night through
Everything is always right
When I'm alone with you
To be alone with you
At the close of the day
With only you in view
While evening slips away
It only goes to show
That while life's pleasures be few
The only one I know
Is when I'm alone with you
They say that nighttime is the right time
To be with the one you love
Too many thoughts get in the way in the day
But you're always what I'm thinkin' of
I wish the night were here
Bringin' me all of your charms
When only you are near
To hold me in your arms
I'll always thank the Lord
When my working day's through
I get my sweet reward
To be alone with you
nissi
Love it! Super sweet! Great piano too!
Vitor Oliveira Jorge
Fantastic song ! A great singer/poet !
mark price
I'll give you poet.
NAB DrumWorks
What a great album and treasure you are, Bob!!
Keith Philo
Such a super album, I love very track.