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Amazing Dylan lyrics on Israel
1983 | dylan

Posted on 06/19/2002 11:45:18 AM PDT by 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.



TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Free Republic; Israel
KEYWORDS: bully; dylan; israel; neighborhood
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1 posted on 06/19/2002 11:45:18 AM PDT by dennisw
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The Neighborhood Bully
by Bob Dylan - 1983
2 posted on 06/19/2002 11:46:29 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw
This certainly deserves a bump.
3 posted on 06/19/2002 11:48:09 AM PDT by agrace
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To: dennisw
This is going to lose a lot of his Hollywood friends for him.
4 posted on 06/19/2002 11:49:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: dennisw
I didn't realize it was written in 1983. I bet he disavows it if it suddenly becomes popular.
5 posted on 06/19/2002 11:50:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: dennisw
Bump
6 posted on 06/19/2002 11:51:37 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I bet he doesn't disavow it. He's never been to concerned about what people thought about him.... or his music.
7 posted on 06/19/2002 11:52:06 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: dennisw
BOOKMARK BUMP
8 posted on 06/19/2002 11:54:14 AM PDT by RobRoy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I think 1983 may have been during Dylans "Christian conversion" period.

Also, I don't think he has really ever been in with the "Hollywood" crowd. He has always been somewhat reclusive. And, he is Jewish.

9 posted on 06/19/2002 11:54:23 AM PDT by FreeTally
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To: kjam22
Isn't Dylan like a born-again Christian or something? Maybe he isn't (technically), but I seem to recall that he went through some kind of "religious" period not too long ago.
10 posted on 06/19/2002 11:54:35 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: dennisw
Bob Dylan is Jewish (his given name was something like Robert Zimmerman). And, apparently, he is not a self-hating Jew. That may help to explain this interesting piece of music.
11 posted on 06/19/2002 11:55:18 AM PDT by nd76
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To: FreeTally
Yep. The song came out on "Infidels". Same album that has Jokerman.

A person not familiar with it can go to cdnow, or cdconnection and probably hear 30 seconds of it. It's a rocker.

12 posted on 06/19/2002 11:56:13 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: agrace
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.
13 posted on 06/19/2002 11:56:13 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
He did write several faith based albums. Like gospel with a Dylan edge.
14 posted on 06/19/2002 11:57:12 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: dennisw
Excellent, thanks! The beginning can be heard on Real Audio or Windows media player here:

http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ bully.html
15 posted on 06/19/2002 11:58:21 AM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: dennisw
Tanks Dennis. It's kind of a tough read, but the sentiment is in there, and it's dead on.
16 posted on 06/19/2002 11:59:54 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Thinkin' Gal
Nice link. Dylan is my alltime favorite artist. :)
17 posted on 06/19/2002 11:59:56 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: dennisw; Abundy; Alouette; aomagrat; AppyPappy; Atsilvquodi; babygene; backhoe; Bagehot; ...

Arabic Mein Kampf sells in PA areas, London

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/19/LatestNews/LatestNews.45493.html 

Arabic-language copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf are on sale at newsstands on London's Edgware Road, which has a large Arab population, and has become a bestseller in Palestinian Authority-controlled territory, the British Daily Telegraph reported. 

Bavaria's state government claims the copyright to the book, and has tried to stop its publication.  The Arab edition, published by a Lebanon-based company, has a picture of Hitler and a swastika on the cover. Translator Luis al-Haj writes in his foreword that "National Socialism did not die with the death of its herald, rather, its seeds multiply under each star."

18 posted on 06/19/2002 12:01:11 PM PDT by Beau Schott
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To: nd76
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.
19 posted on 06/19/2002 12:03:23 PM PDT by LarryLied
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To: nd76
Bob Dylan Bump!

It amazes me how the song is almost 20 years old and the lyrics still apply to today. He caught some flack when he came out with the song, not a popular sentiment at the time, but he has only disowned one song in his career. ("Ballad in plain D") Bully is a great song no matter what religion the songwriter is.

Proust

20 posted on 06/19/2002 12:03:32 PM PDT by proust
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