Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet Lyrics

Bob Dylan was well read and Isuspect that he had read Byron's poem "Darkness" (see also "It's alright ma") which refers to the year 1816, "the year without a summer", following the eruption of mount Tambora in Indonesia, which changed the worldwide climate especially in Europe and North America

Byron: "Darkness":
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:

"I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from.....".... almost 2020 and been listening to Dylan since the 60's....... and keep coming back to great songs like this, Positively 4th Street and so many more. Happy New Year to all.

Deadwood 2x01

clear, cool and strong! Like a mountain lake....bob dylan, not dark yet

this song always moves me to tears so fuck you Bob seriously time out of mind best thing he did in the eighties in fine voice great penmenship and what a fucking band. yeah

Since "Romance in Durango"1974,I still discover more and more the beauty of what he sings/writes .
Every time his songs are deeply actual !

Beautiful man ❤️.

Le monde actuel n'a pas encore disparu,...mais presque

Se amofelicces y honesto uno con el otro y dejemenos de codisias y posdata HOS Guieros

"Behind every beautiful thing there's being some kind of pain"

❤❤❤🎼

I bet Bob Dylan would be proud of so many of the thoughts and comments below. Some beautiful, well-expressed reactions from so many!

It's so scary. But still can't help not listening.

You want scary, wait for "Cold Irons Bound," the next song on the album after this one.

Nádherná píseň

Timeless song, thanks for posting.

Listening after the UK elections and witnessing US senators defending Trump while he insults a teenager wit passion and heart.
"I'm not sure why I should even care; it's not dark yet, but it's getting there."

I was born here and I’ll die here against my will........

Give a Nobel prize to this poet :)

Just when everyone gave up on him and TV interviewers asked him, "So, how was it to be the spokesperson of 60's and seeing the apex of your career?"... when everyone thought Dylan was a 'has been'...

time is not on our side bob honey

from the same material you have this shirt my mama had skirt when dance twist with leon russell i am they bustard leons first child it was hard to live in humiliation and hunger and mama bit me like hell all my beloved are dead so will be good company in hell when i die yeah bob we don t have much time and i love you sow thats hurts me

silwer on your hair in cold november dday would anybody love me or it s just crazy dream bob honeyi fall long time ago when frank my excomitted suicide i was whole night with hiddbody before in the morning came car of funeral service in one night my hair became white

Ligesom dig,og mig,og selvfølgelig alle andre der, er enige.

Wow ...

祈りとは何だろう
神々を宥めるような人の声
長生きしてもらわんと困るて

a Marine a brother to family the walk a song to family the walk sons of life a father to brother of use

Getting a little dark for all of us.

Man what a great tune...thx for uploading

Vw bus behind him. 125k today.

That must mean there some indication of empathy left in the apathetic way of the world.

Now that's deep blues.

Beauty gem song!

This song has so much atmosphere... and everything else to go with it. Kinda like life

"Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain."

This is just hope for me, I guess one day I will come to this comment and say yes, it is true!

Keep the faith

this song is obviously about death,he is get old,he is afraid of his own mortality,

Its not dark yet but its getting there.... for all of us.

Cool to the bone...

It must be pretty dark with those shades Bob, maybe even too dark to see?

kiss kiss

i am not born to lose you bob

i wanna see my reflection in your eyes bob

yeah bob

we sstill have time to start with new family bob

O bobby ... Will you be mine eunuch. ..

yeah bob iam beauty on pain told you i am anartist sculptorpainterand poetandwould like to see my reflection i your eyes

still have time to start with new family

this is very touching and sad

There are about 8 billion people in the world. And all 8 billion of them at some point of their lives can pick a song from Bob to describe their life and how and what they are feeling and going through.

A friendly enemy to "pop" and a necessary adversary to our place exposed... Thank you for posting and thank you Zimmy for the ink you Sweat

Joy competition

I want to say that this song is about giving birth to my first child, child bearing can be about not remembering why you are here and just want this to end and go home. When actually it is about kicking drugs, maybe even more difficult than childbirth.

God bless Robert Zimmermann.

I think this song was on "Blood on the Tracks" but I can't be sure. That album was very somber, some of it talking about when his marriage fell apart and he must have been feeling down. If you are new to Dylan please listen to all his albums. He is a once in a lifetime expereince who totally changed the reality in which we live. Thank God I was here to see and listen to him his whole life. What a blessing. He makes you think!

Just perfect. ❤️

Pavi Peterson

i want to marry gbob dylan

Not dark yet best song ever

Voice of an angel 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

my heartbreak song...…….

EVERY SYLLABLE, EVERY SOUND, EVERY NUANCE OF THIS SONG STRAINS A WHISPER OF THE DEEPEST OF SADNESS. ONLY BOB CAN PAINT SUCH A VIVID PICTURE IN YOUR MIND AND SOUL.

Damn true n I thought I'm sad saddest.cheers to Bob live long.aj from India.

i have my freedom but not much time bob i am homeless and ill you must understand me that i am pasing trough i can die silently in my solitude but i am surviver not suicider as my botbands were

Dylan got better with age. This is sublime, and explains more about ourselves than any 'Tambourine Man', 'Times' a changin', or whatever 'blows in the wind' could. This is LIFE here. Period.

I first bought a Dylan LP in 1964. I still have it. As a singer/guitarist I have covered much of his stuff. Recently I just posted my rendition of "Ballad of Hollis Brown" on Youtube. I saw his last solo gig in the UK. I had a bit of a gap in my Dylan following.....work, marriage, etc. This is the FIRST time ever heard this song. I must learn it.

i have my freedom but not much time bob love you sow

Love his whole career, with some reservations, but the stuff from everything from the 90s to now proves, if any doubt remained, he is simply beyond compare.

reminded me Keith Richards How can I stop

Fuck flowers. Fuck look at me clothing. Ass and titties. All that matters.

When Tom passed away I kept his car, cleaned it up and bought polka dot adhesive vinyl to make it look nice inside. Love you, Tom

i wann see my reflection in your eyes

mary me anyway im your next wiffe send me postcard

xyeah bob waiting you here in my bed

I feel guilty for complaining reading all the nice comments. However, I still cant believe I got myself F'd into goin to his concert in Muncie Indiana Saturday nite. Id do anything to get out of it.

a team of fathers the walk the song or use a day of a tour family thank you
. Brothers home fathers to our life the trail a song to family

CHILLS EVERY TIME!!

This song has made me want to shoot dope and chain smoke forever 🤔🤯

i listened to this tune for the first time the day my father passed away , I dont think a song as ever affected me so much , Id been numb all day not speaking, or doing anything just in shock . When i listened to this , it was what was needed to break the brickwall down and start my grieving process , That was a few years ago now, but this gets played a lot . brilliant song

I know it looks like a movie but. I am standing still.

my deepest sympathy for anyone thats not totally moved by such honesty,out here for all to know,a masterpiece

Martin Scorsese says Marval and Super Hero films aren't Cinema? Hope hes fun and happy in life cause his dark nour films of violence and life stories true, great, grand, wise like Bob Dylan fcking great in so many ways and live shows going down. Is Bob Dylan art always the perfect being, the fifth element, pain and indifference, deep sadness but hope. Good, ok, normal, greater good, fun, whole, be, come on youth, u oh darn ne, it's me, it's you, get it together, make it right, right, well, better, balance. Talk is cheap, action jackson pains on the river. Stream the system, app, human being being animals. Omni, 8, help us, o b 1, c 3 p, e I o bingo lol. Rock on.

Dylan can take hardship, struggles and pain and brilliantly compose it in ways we want to but can’t. He’s more than a poet, he’s a gift.

the king,bob the great😍

Pure genius. Thank you for existing Sir.

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kiss kiss bob

it was pink with white dotts and my mom is the best twist dancer oh mom sheis dead she died in accident

from same material you have this shirt my mother had kand my dad was your friend you should care for menew herkirt

Just discovered this Dylan gem, definitely the best songwriter of his time.

The melancholy is warm in his voice.

Raphael Aguiar that's a really pleasing way of putting it

Bob has a vision the rest of us mere mortals don't possess.

No one can beat Dylan for insight and just great songs.

This song is a life companion for years and will stay so until the dark will be there.

All blessings Bob Dylan

incredible

Bob is not only a great artist......he's A GREAT SOUL.

amazing and beautiful. I have always loved this song.

Grande Bob dillan

Yesssssssssssss ............... Toymiko

after i've heard something like this i'm ready for death. i mean that in the most positive possible way

I am positively NOT ready for death - but it will happen anyway (so it goes) and, by the way, this is an utterly beautiful song (in my (not very) humble opinion)