What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

BOB DYLAN "shot of love"  cd,  1981

his twenty-first studio album...
cover has that distinct Warhol 'pop-art' style happening which isnt a bad thing...
a good solid album, obviously not his best but very good.
the last of his "christian trilogy"..
standout thing is Dylan is actually singing, well, as close to real singing as he could manage anyhow...
nothing i dislike and two or three i love...
some rock, some chugging-blues, a hint of gospel and a ballad or two...
as a bit of trivia this is apparently Bono's faovurite Dylan album
I LIKE THIS ALBUM

standout track for me:






In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
There's a dying voice within me reaching out somewhere
Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair.

Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake
Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break
In the fury of the moment I can see the master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.

Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear
Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer
The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand.

I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry light
In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face.

I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other time it's only me
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.