Tangled Up in Blue

Tangled Up in Blue is a folk-rock song of the U.S. musician Bob Dylan, who in 1975 appeared on the album Blood on the Tracks at the label, Columbia Records and was produced by Dylan himself.

The Rolling Stone listed him in their 2005 list of the 500 greatest songs of all time on the 68th rank. Also generally the piece is regarded as one of Dylan's best work. So ranked the Uncut Tangled Up in Blue was published in 2002 in their list of the best Dylan songs the work to second place behind Like a Rolling Stone.

Recording and creation

Dylan took the album and single version on December 30, 1974, in Minneapolis. Even after release of the song Dylan would not let him rest and worked continuously on the lyrics, so later live versions at concerts are lyrically partly drastically different. Dylan commented that the version is on the album Real Live 1984 "the best version.

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The text describes an unusual romance. The first stanza is a prolepsis that the lyric I shows the considered retroactively to the relationship and you had said from the outset that it would be hard. The next verse shows how the two had learned to identify. It was a struggle from which he had rescued her, even if she was there yet married. They left the place together, but parted amicably, even if they are the same immediately noticed that they would meet again one day with safety on the road. The third stanza is about how she did not come from the mind of the lyrical ego, which works its way through various jobs and can often just think of women only at her. In the fourth stanza, they meet in a topless bar again, where she works and speaks to him ( he had not played with the idea ). She takes him home and apparently offered him drugs (And Offered me a pipe). Read together the work of an Italian poet of the 13th century; where the lyric I have the feeling that the lines and verses came directly from his heart and had been written for her. In the sixth stanza but they alienate themselves again. Dylan seals:

They separate and yet decided in the seventh and final stanza to the 'I want to win her back. He realizes that they have always seen it all the same, only from a different point of view. So he is alone on the road again and continues to search.

Cover versions

Tangled Up in Blue was often gecovert, inter alia, by Jerry Garcia, Dickey Betts and Great White.