I Want You (Bob Dylan song)

I Want You is a folk rock song by Bob Dylan, 1966 on on Blonde Blonde appeared, for the first time with a slightly abridged version also appeared as a single.

Emergence and text

I Want You was recorded in the Blonde on Blonde version on 10 March 1966 under the Columbia Records under the production by Bob Johnston. The lyrics are traversed as for the Dylan songs that period of surrealist metaphors.

In the first stanza the lyrical I of different groups of people is asked to reject the lady sung, to which he replied that he was not born to lose you. (But it's not that way / / I was not born to lose you). In the chorus, which is played during the song four times, he insists that he wants very incredible. ( I want you so bad ).

Many fans have dealt with the interpretation of the text, and some critics. The song has become a Dylan classic with the time, which was often played at concerts. He was also frequently gecovert or played in films and television series.

In the charts

His best chart position reached the piece in July at No. 20 on the Billboard 100, the single was thus not as successful as to see the previous Rainy Day Women # 12 & 25, which had reached the second place, but I Want You sold as a single better than One of Us must Know ( Sooner or Later ) and the following single Just Like a Woman.