название:

Neighborhood Bully


автор:

Bob Dylan


жанры: folk
альбомы: Bob Dylan: The Collection, Infidels
рейтинг: ★★★★★ / 4.8 / 802 просмотра
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 bullyNeighborhood bully, he just lives to survive
He's criticized and condemned for being alive
Not supposed to fight back and have thick skin
Supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in
He's the neighborhood bullyNeighborhood bully been driven out of every land
He's wandered the earth, an exiled man
Seen his family scattered, people hounded and torn
He's always on trial for just being born
He's the neighborhood bullyWell he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said, "He should apologize"
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, ain't nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him, he was supposed to feel bad
He's the neighborhood bullyWell the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him
There's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him given out to every maniac
He's the neighborhood bullyBut he got no allies to really speak of
But 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 bullyWell 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 bullyEvery 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 ones command
He's the neighborhood bullyNow 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 bullyWhat'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
Neighborhood bullyWhat 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
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Это интересно:Об альбоме Infidels:

После принятия христианства и трех религиозных альбомов, Дилан выпустил совершенно мирскую пластинку, и, хоть он никогда не комментировал этот шаг, видно, что он сделал все, что мог в религии, и вернулся в темам любви и социальной несправедливости. Что, впрочем, не помешало ему оставаться христианином.

Infidels дал критикам возможность расслабиться и придержать свои злые языки (через три года они в полной мере наверстали упущенное). Альбом приняли очень тепло, засыпали хвалебными статьями и заметками, в результате он стал золотым и достиг 20 позиции в Америке, и 9 в Британии. После того, как бутлегеры раздобыли не вошедшие песни, многих огорчило то, как Дилан скомпоновал альбом, выбросив из треклиста, по их мнению, многие песни, намного лучше присутствующих. Больше всего шума подняли по поводу Blind Willie McTell.

Поначалу Боб хотел спродюссировать альбом в одиночку, но опыта в этом у него почти не было («Я же просто пишу песни и играю на гитаре»), поэтому он попытался привлечь сначала David Bowie, потом Frank Zappa и Elvis Costello, но, в конце концов, выбрал Марка Нопфлера, который 4 года назад помогал ему в записи альбома Slow Train Coming.

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