Amazing Dylan lyrics on Israel

1983 | dylan

[dennisw]

 

 

Amazing Dylan lyrics on Israel. Must read the entire lyrics.
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The Neighborhood Bully
by Bob Dylan - 1983

Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.

 Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
 He's the neighborhood bully.

He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
 He's the neighborhood bully.

Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.

What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.

What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.

[Catholicguy]

"Go enjoy the films of Leni Reisenthal, the songs of Paul Robeson and the photography of Yevgeny Khaldei. You deserve it"

Two questions, Sir;

What exactly would you do with or to Mr. Dylan if you had power over him?

What re-education camp ought I be sent to?

[Cachelot]

Would you think he was so wonderful if he wrote lyrics defending people who supported Mengele?

That is a fairly easy question, Mr. Lied. I see you here every single day making common cause with people who supported Mengele. In fact, I see no difference between you and Mengele, other than one of opportunity and circumstance.

[Cachelot]

Cachelot, you have got to wake up.

Oh, I'm awake and paying attention. You haven't the faintest idea how much attention I'm actually paying.

Now. Please put aside the platitudes about "jewish origins of the left" and gimme an analysis on how Karl Marx came to his teorethical understanding of economics through "jewish rage against gentiles". And try doing it without sounding like the intellectual giants over at zogspace (faem) or natvan :)).

[dennisw]

Dylan wrote lyrics defending traitors to America who supported a regime which killed more people than Nazi Germany. Would you think he was so wonderful if he wrote lyrics defending people who supported Mengele?

And what Bob Dylan album does this song about the Rosenbergs appear on? The 3rd time I have asked you. You like to go on and on about nonsense but are a coward when it comes to answering my simple question.

[Catspaw]

Now. Please put aside the platitudes about "jewish origins of the left" and gimme an analysis on how Karl Marx came to his teorethical understanding of economics through "jewish rage against gentiles". And try doing it without sounding like the intellectual giants over at zogspace (faem) or natvan :)).

Oh, WOW! There's got to be a Dylan song in there somewhere. It's got to have lyrics in there somewhere about Finnish socialists meeting in Hibbing as they attempt to take over the WORLD from a small mining town in northern Minnesota (I'd go with the "Hibbing" reference, because it's so hard to rhyme "Minnesota"), plus, of course, the obligatory international Jewish banking conspiracy reference (and Bob does have a lot of money), the Jewish control of the media done in Dylan's blend of poetry and storytelling (you don't see Bob much on the tube, but one doesn't have to be on camera to control the media, ya know), a subtle, but oblique, reference to the Bilderbergers (they're SECRET, dontcha know)...but here's the burning question: acoustic or electric guitar? I figure he'll go electric, but the bootleg tapes will have him doing the acoustic version.

I already have an idea for the cover art.

[Cachelot]

It's got to have lyrics in there somewhere about Finnish socialists meeting in Hibbing

Dylan on Hibbing:

"Hibbing´s a good town. I ran away from it when I was 10, 12, 13, 15, 15½, 17 and 18. I been caught and brought back all but once... (My Life In a Stolen Moment, 1963 )"

[AppyPappy]

C'mon Dennis. Dylan is a Jew. Therefore, he is in on the conspiracy to take over the world monetary markets. It's in all his songs.

[Catspaw]

LOL about Hibbing. I've never been there myself--we've been in the area, but never made it to Hibbing (our loss, I know)--but my hubby's relatives who live in International Falls MN consider Hibbing to be "down south." The Twin Cities are considered to be "the deep south."

I just have this vision of Bob being raised on hot dish. No wonder he ran away :-))

[martin gibson]

The song came out on "Infidels". Same album that has Jokerman.

Huge Jokerman bump.

I, for one, will be honored to carry the colors for Mr. Dylan. The old man still has a couple of good tunes left in him.

Martin

[SJackson]

Go enjoy the films of Leni Reisenthal, the songs of Paul Robeson and the photography of Yevgeny Khaldei. You deserve it.

See what you get for listening to Dylan. Bet you didn't know you were such a fringe radical, did you?

Actually, if you're not familiar with him, Khaldei is worthwhile. There's tremendous irony in the fact that LL whines thread after thread that the horrors of the Soviet Union aren't adequately documented, which is true, but attacks the few documenters, like Khaldei, based on their religion.

[DallasDeb]

Isn't it interesting that these 1983 words are not time constrained? That is, they fit exactly for today, as if he had written them last week.

[DallasDeb]

Dylan is a child of Emma Goldman and Abraham Maslow, the godparents of the 60s radicals. Maybe he's changed but few of them ever did.

It's unusual that such radicals would be religious.

[Cachelot]

Precisely the wrong, the misleading, question either to ask or to answer.

Not at all, Pinlighter :). After all, it was you who made the statement that this "Jewish rage against gentiles", which you seem to see as the root of socialism, went back to "Marx and the politburo". But you would probably be quite wrong trying to clarify this startling "insight", because it may reveal a bit more about your politics than you would want. Btw, I asked you before if you're active in British politics, and you haven't seen your way to answer that one yet. You wouldn't be one of Nick Griffin's fans, would you?

The Russian revolution was mostly run, and mostly financed, by jews, many of them in the US.

Bah. Another of the well-known canards used by the national-socialistic crowd. Of course there were Jews in Russia. There were Jews in lots of places, many Jews were left-wingers just as many non-jews were left-wingers. You should know. England has at times seemed to be nothing but 80% communist-socialists and 20% national-socialists. The canard isn't only in dragging in false data in many cases, but also trying to skew the significance of the numbers.

Of course, if you want to talk revolution, you must know that the left didn't originate in Russia. It originated in France, if you really should try to pinpoint it. I think there were precious few Jews involved, but of course if your crowd eventually picks up on the fact that the french revolution was sort of a left "start-event", I'm sure that the history revision outlets will be going full tilt until every frenchman at that time was a Jew. Except for the nobility, of course.

Another interesting little factoid is that the American revolution was financed by a Jew. So a Jew is to a large degree to thank for the American Republic, its Constitution, and that America isn't controlled by the English. How the world would have looked today if the English nobility had parceled America betwen them is an interesting but repugnant intellectual exercise.

[LarryLied]

What exactly would you do with or to Mr. Dylan if you had power over him?

Nothing. I only wish more would consider the evil he and so many others of his generation actively or passively embraced. A "Yes his work was good but..." would be a appropriate epitaph for Bob Dylan.

What re-education camp ought I be sent to?

It is not built yet but a museum to the victims of communism is in the planning stages and will be worth a trip.

[LarryLied]

but attacks the few documenters, like Khaldei, based on their religion.

Yeah and Goebbels kept a diary too. Suppose we can call him a documenter. Khaldei was Stalin's favorite photographer. That is why I attack him. He was an enabler of one of the worst tyrants of the 20th century. His religion only comes into it because at least one Jewish museum in the USA praises and honors him. I find nothing honorable about those who worked for genocidal maniacs.

[LarryLied]

It's unusual that such radicals would be religious.

Most had a deep hatred of Christianity. The Catholic church saw the destruction coming before it arrived: 1878-On Socialism

[Yardstick]

FWIW, a Christian rocker back then named Larry Norman did a great Dylan parody song...

Larry Norman... hmmm.

99.9% of Christian music leaves me flat, but somebody gave me a tape of a Christian rocker from back in the 60's or 70's, and I liked it. I ended up losing the tape and forgetting the guy's name, but "Larry Norman" is definitely ringing a bell.

One of the songs was called something like "On the Six O'clock News". Do you know if this Norman fellow had a song with a name along those lines?

[SJackson]

Khaldei was Stalin's favorite photographer. That is why I attack him. He was an enabler of one of the worst tyrants of the 20th century. His religion only comes into it because at least one Jewish museum in the USA praises and honors him. I find nothing honorable about those who worked for genocidal maniacs. Exactly Larry, as I said you attack(s) the few documenters, like Khaldei, based on their religion. You frequently post he’s a JEW. You frequently post links to the JEWISH museum, nary another word. He’s a well known photographer He has a permanent exhibit at Colgate where his biographers teach. Several collections of his photographs have been published, to very favorable national reviews throughout the media. His photographs are displayed and sold at a number of galleries (some might have Jewish owners though). And you attack him because, in your own words, at least one Jewish museum in the USA praises and honors him. The rest of the art community and media, are irrelevant. Communists without Jewish parents get a pass. A Jewish museum has an exhibit, and he's a Jew. That's why you attack.