Well, the Los Angeles Times has asked the question – is a new Bob Dylan album on the way?
And yes there is! It’s called Rough and Rowdy Ways and comes out on June 19th.
Most thought the album was going to be called False Prophet – but that is the new single! Listen here:
The ‘cover’ is based on a macabre, Victorian-style hangman and top-hatted skeleton image on his official twitter account.
The eccentric bard of cool’s Twitter account posted a scary illustration of the skeleton with a needle in its hand …
… the skeleton he’s in the vein, so to speak.
The image looks like a pulp novel from the ’50s with the skeleton’s shadow being a corpse-dangling.
The words False Prophet presides over the image. But the tweet asks a cryptic question: “What are you lookin’ at — there’s nothing to see.”
The idea that Dylan’s new studio album was on its way is backed by the recent surprise releases of two new songs.
The first, a 17-minute song, Murder Most Foul.
The second, a melancholy ballad I Contain Multitudes, features Dylan sighing “I got a tell-tale heart like Mr. Poe / Got skeletons in the walls of people you know,” he sings. “I drink to the truth / And the things we said / I’ll drink to the man who shares your bed.”
Well, one way or the other the travelling troubadour is making waves across the world, not really seen since the 60s and the 70s!
So, fingers crossed and another lockdown breakthrough for ol’ Bob?
FALSE PROPHET
Another day that don’t end
Another ship goin’ out
Another day of anger, bitterness, and doubt
I know how it happened
I saw it begin
I opened my heart to the world and the world came in
Hello Mary Lou
Hello Miss Pearl
My fleet-footed guides from the underworld
No stars in the sky shine brighter than you
You girls mean business and I do too
Well I’m the enemy of treason
Enemy of strife
Enemy of the unlived meaningless life
I ain’t no false prophet
I just know what I know
I go where only the lonely can go
I’m first among equals
Second to none
Last of the best
You can bury the rest
Bury ’em naked with their silver and gold
Put them six feet under and pray for their souls
What are you lookin’ at
There’s nothing to see
Just a cool breeze that’s encircling me
Let’s go for a walk in the garden
So far and so wide
We can sit in the shade by the fountain-side
I search the world over
For the Holy Grail
I sing songs of love
I sing songs of betrayal
Don’t care what I drink
Don’t care what I eat
I climbed the mountains of swords on my bare feet
You don’t know me darlin’
You never would guess
I’m nothing like my ghostly appearance would suggest
I ain’t no false prophet
I just said what I said
I’m just here to bring vengeance on somebody’s head
Put out your hand
There’s nothing to hold
Open your mouth
I’ll stuff it with gold
Oh you poor devil look up if you will
The city of God is there on the hill
Hello stranger
A long goodbye
You ruled the land
But so do I
You lost your mule
You got a poison brain
I’ll marry you to a ball and chain
You know darlin’
The kind of life that I live
When your smile meets my smile something’s got to give
I ain’t no false prophet
No I’m nobody’s bride
Can’t remember when I was born
And I forgot when I died
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