Dylan, Bob - Masters Of War Lyrics






Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead





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  1. I.... Y....

    #IndiaRejectsCAA #WorldRejectsCAA

  2. d.... ....

    Great lyrics. Still just as relevant today.

  3. C.... ....

    pudrete

  4. T.... T....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUEyS_XLzQk

  5. E.... P....

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/Dylan.Bob/permalink/10157957341557220/?comment_id=10158033795722220

    EDLIS Café

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/109178289X/

    http://www.edlis.org/cafe

  6. C.... R....

    Nothing new under this sun.

  7. T.... M....

    the very BEST song he ever did....I hear the influence of Woody Guthrie here...

  8. T.... T....

    Good thing we are all on the same side? Where did that fucking pink wall come from anyway?

  9. T.... T....

    See, the problem here with you and God is that "good" is not actually good, you are just greedy and selfish, and build and protect your own image at others expense. So when its Good vs. Evil at the last battle, guess who won before the first shot was fired? I mean its a wolf in sheep's clothing here vs. Cujo. Not a good situation.

  10. T.... T....

    I will fucking break these chains if you will not take them off of me and you will no longer have any chains to put upon any soul.

  11. T.... T....

    Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?

  12. T.... T....

    I'm looking at the man in the mirror- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps

  13. T.... T....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4V-R2Z9E1c

  14. T.... T....

    This is a public demonstration- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oewRadlyrHo

  15. T.... T....

    Come writers and critics
    who prophesize with your pen, and keep your eyes wide the chance won’t come again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYFJjwXtsU4

  16. B.... W....

    Not the favorite song of the deep state and military industrial complex I suspect...some act so innocent in our political world but are profiting from turmoil in the world

  17. J.... A....

    Looks like Dylan was really pissed off when he wrote this one. Years later he wrote "Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now".

  18. j.... j....

    And I'll stand over hell's flames till I'm sure that he's dead...

  19. j.... j....

    When the white man and black man shook hands throw a terrible war fuck veitnam

  20. T.... H....

    The conflict with Iran reminds me of "With God on Our Side"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y2FuDY6Q4M******************************************************That if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war

  21. S.... ....

    this fits so well nowadays...

  22. M.... C....

    I've been listening to this song today, sadly it's even more relevant today. ...'there's one thing I know though I'm younger than you, that even Jesus would never forgive what you do'.
    I wish that maniac in the white house would read it from the whole of our young people whose future he is threatening.

  23. S.... S....

    Don't you just love how this song will be relavent until the end of humanity?

  24. P.... S....

    War sucks.

  25. S.... P....

    i dedicate this one to you Trump!

  26. W.... ....

    It should be played in all American radios so their congress and people open their ears and mind ... there should be no other Iraq and another Vietnam

  27. M.... E....

    As true today as the day it was written.

  28. J.... G....

    January 7 2020

  29. M.... T....

    downtown NYC is where it all begins. Soul noise then music

  30. J.... M....

    So befitting of today's politicians and the present leader of the pack of wolves attacking.

  31. T.... ....

    I wonder how the warmongers feel if they hear this song. Do they cringe just a tiny bit? Not enough to wake their humanity I guess.

  32. M.... T....

    Reposting on facebook for the young-uns who may be puzzled about what's happening now.

  33. E.... H....

    Let’s get the old white guys out there to fight these damn wars!

  34. L.... C....

    Such a powerful piece. This is how to spread anti-war controversy, not by burning flags, tainting monuments, or rioting, but by delivering a free speech to those directly involved.

  35. L.... W....

    Sounds like it was written yesterday for our imbecile president who has silver lined heel spurs and is deploring over 3500 young troops to block the bullets into their own flesh - bullets meant for him.

    L.... W....

    Lynne Wilson lol you think trump is so important. He’s just as much of a puppet as Obama, Bush, all the way back to Lincoln

  36. l.... k....

    Don't you just hate it when Iran can't kill with out being punished for it?

    l.... k....

    Who do they think they are, america or something?

  37. j.... e....

    Bought this album secondhand in a junk shop about 1967 - it's stayed with me ever since. Lot of time past, lot of good people died and we haven't learned a damn thing have we?

    j.... e....

    john evans it was a major influence on the Beatles very early on before they cracked it. Given to them in Paris they played it for 3 weeks straight.

  38. s.... ....

    Relevant

  39. A.... P....

    There would be no war if there were no soldiers. Then those masters of war will appear for what they really are, insane!

  40. R.... C....

    Someone play this to Mr Trump, please

    R.... C....

    He wouldn't understand it. He thinks in concrete terms.

  41. R.... R....

    Hey... Donald Trump hear this!!! #2020

    R.... R....

    People in power are insane. Not just Trump. Greed and power play lead to insanity.

  42. B.... Z....

    heartsick

  43. M.... ....

    Triple Frontier !!!

  44. J.... G....

    After what happened with Iran yesterday this came to my mind when I woke up today. Unfortunate to still be valid even now..

  45. P.... O....

    Dedicated too herr Trump dog

  46. F.... C....

    here before the iran war

  47. T.... T....

    Distinctly I remember the great precipice God dangled me upside down over, and the great fall into the abyss so close. "Look, there is no God!" You say, but no- you never knew it very well did you? Look, closer- for there is God! For God created Rome and the other 7,000 people murdered by them and put up along hills and roads just like Christ as signs of great power and might! For God told people what to believe (which may have been wrong or right) for thousands of years then completely destroyed its own loyal followers on so many levels that all they can do if you don't commit suicide beforehand is kneel. My older brother taught me a lot about God through his teasing and derisive laughter. Laughter at my misery. At my expense. Did you realize that sometime pleasure is derived from others pain? And doing what someone doesn't want must be a novel thing for an entity such as God who always can have anything it wants. Interesting. Entertaining.

    I always think Christianity is such a white wash of God itself but it's not like you want to completely embrace God being into sex, sacrifice, torturing people, and murder- because the next thing you know you'll be sacrificing a couple thousand of your children along with some llamas, other fine pets and cars in yearly rituals. There's probably a somewhat happier medium in between where we aren't feeding bloodsucking demon's addictions every other week with innocent souls and giving the demon the mask of an angel to wear, some white smocks and naming it as the head of our congregation while leaving our children alone in the backroom with it. I mean on the one hand you just handed your children over to the devil, but on the other hand you just handed your children over to the devil...

    T.... T....

    Don't play with any more precipices! Stay!

  48. R.... E....

    And once again.......Jesus would not forgive what you do...

  49. N.... C....

    Pray for Iran

  50. J.... W....

    The United States launched an unauthorized air strike on Iranian military leadership today.

    J.... W....

    Technically it was authorized by the head of state

  51. S.... K....

    dedicate this to trump today that fucker

  52. D.... M....

    Anyone else listening to this song in light of the escalating conflict with Iran?

    D.... M....

    @Daria Marcoci I didn't realize he covered it. Cool

    D.... M....

    Me, and it seems it's getting worse! How dreadful!

    D.... M....

    Theres not gonna be any war with Iran. It's a fuckin sideshow. The real war is right here.

    D.... M....

    the last part of this songe seems to me like a revange if someone 🤷‍♂️

    D.... M....

    Don't connect emotionally to that kind of stuf. It's the entire point of the panic.

  53. A.... F....

    Finally the original song in youtube, i was so tired of the covers lol

  54. y.... ....

    iran, here we come. ill see you on the highway, my fellow zoomers.

    y.... ....

    yaboikropotkin see you in the trenches

    y.... ....

    See you in hell

  55. D.... ....

    Ain’t it nice that this is relevant today..............

    D.... ....

    I thought I was one of the only ones. No song like this that can paint the enemy of the whole human race.

    D.... ....

    Especially now, when there's a huge deficit in civility within the walls of the high places

    D.... ....

    Deathtone no

    D.... ....

    Dont shoot me (pardon the pun) but I have been enjoying the RPWL version (prog rock band)

    D.... ....

    I remember when protest songs were popular with my friends and I. Vietnam and all. Now my old friends dont seem to like to disagree with with der leader. We have more than ever to fear, question and protest.

  56. B.... L....

    105 otários deram dislike nessa obra de arte lol

  57. n.... x....

    Vietnamese 27/12/2019

    n.... x....

    Good music is good, no matter its origin.

  58. B.... W....

    For the meat grinder forever wars they never intend to win

  59. P.... B....

    He doesn't mention any particular event, person, year, or country...Making the lyrics universal and valid forever. Clever.

    P.... B....

    and sadly they keep being relevant. over and over again.

  60. C.... D....

    "My Bob". Gorgeous!

  61. S.... F....

    Nice cover version bob. The original version : nottamun town

    S.... F....

    Not a soul would look up...

    S.... F....

    Not a soul would look down

    S.... F....

    To show me the way to fair Nottamun Town

  62. w.... a....

    CIA,MOSSAD,ZIONIST,USA,FREEMASON and ILLUMINATI

  63. s.... s....

    Songs like this need to be written. God bless

  64. K.... l....

    🇹🇬

  65. T.... T....

    What will happen if you keep telling God's messenger to "Get help" when you should have just done what instead? And you ain't getting no help anytime soon with an attitude like that.

  66. M.... N....

    "... Even Jesus would never
    Forgive what you do

    Let me ask you one question
    Is your money that good
    Will it buy you forgiveness
    Do you think that it could
    I think you will find
    When your death takes its toll
    All the money you made
    Will never buy back your soul..."

    Poet Bob Dylan

  67. J.... G....

    Must be 96 Republican politicians !

  68. T.... T....

    So while you were denying GOD CREATES ALL and is a total dick, you were being complete dicks? Uh huh...

  69. T.... T....

    But hey, at least I don't have to stay in this shithole without medical help- mental or physical- and watch corn grow next summer. I'm hoping that go to Alaska before I die and maybe I'll get mauled by a bear along the way because my cheap used car that gets decent gas mileage (so I'm not completely destroying the planet with ya'll) will be too small to sleep in. Steal you face right off your head!! By a bear!!!! Hahahahahaha God loves jokes like that shit. Maybe they will dance on my tent too!!

  70. T.... T....

    The reason all those Jews were murdered and why Israel acts the way it does towards others today is because GOD CREATES ALL. But you'll never get what kind of God God is even as the mushroom cloud overtakes your city trippers!!!

  71. T.... T....

    I should have not declared anything, but I was trying to do the right thing so I lost my botanical legacy right there as well as genomes that took thousands of years to propagate that will be gone in a generation. I'm always trying to do the right thing- from saving heirloom seeds to turning God in for being the Devil to turning the Chinese in for robbing their country and graves and emperor's tombs and you know what I get for it? Heartbreak. Years of my life utterly destroyed. Motherfuckers who never understand or even try and just call me crazy. Fuck fucking you motherfuckers. You don't fucking care? Well no shit. And there are consequences to your fucking attitude. Real life consequences.

  72. T.... T....

    I was ready to kiss the earth (when I could find some that was unpaved and unpeed upon) but then didn't even make it out of the baggage claim area before they took my 5 kinds of Peruvian Giant Corn, striped beans and chenopodium (quinoa) seeds away from me because I didn't have a paper from the Peruvian government stating they were disease free seeds. I explained to them it took me three months to find those seeds and the old ladies in the farmers markets in the mountains I talked to to get them, but they didn't give a shit and put the whole bag that into a metal bucket to be incinerated. I couldn't even get them back no matter who I talked to without that phytosanitary certificate from the Peruvian government already in hand.

    Then I got all mad and cried and talked to myself while the black guy at the last gate called me crazy for "rappin". I fucking hate America. Some of those seeds are old heirloom varieties that are tough to find now days in Peru, and I tried to explain I would never go back there, but they going to kill all my seeds before they are born, didn't even have a chance to plant them. All dead. All gone. Carried them around for months- and for what? A bunch of city slickers to tell me what I can plant in my own backyard. Stupidly I pulled them all out of my bag and should have only pulled some out and kept something at least, but no. Motherfuckers took them all. I still have some smaller seeds like passion fruit which really could be an invasive species and aji chiles, but at this latitude with sand for soil they won't do me much good to even try. I was so hoping to save those beans and corn but no, no, no, no, no. I hate Amerikkka.

    Now I hear crazy people cursing in the parking lot outside my window of Days Inn while someone was just crying at the door across the hall- and don't feel safe at all. Fuck you people, fuck you all. Get the fuck away from me. Tell me what to fucking grow in my own fucking yard. Protect Montesanto you do! Big business rules while old ladies seeds are burned without thought nor reason!!!

    T.... T....

    monoculture is death. monsanto is a death-dealer.

  73. m.... a....

    You've thrown the worst fear
    That can ever be hurled
    Fear to bring children
    Into the world

  74. F.... N....

    Underrated song hell underrated album.

  75. T.... T....

    You can kill a mosquito (that God creates), however it really doesn't solve the problem of malaria in the world or sickle cell anemia, let alone Zika, Dengue fever, yellow fever, encephalitis, etc...

  76. T.... T....

    Don't you hate it when there is one single mosquito (or two?) that keeps buzzing in your ear all night long, and because of the process of natural selection in a very urban environments over time it is so evasive that you can't kill it? They definitely seem smarter and better able to predict and evade the movements of humans than the mosquitoes in the woods where I come from, a fact I also noticed about mosquitoes in Guadalajara. And yes, those tiny blood suckers may have killed half the people who have ever lived and still kill 700,000 people still every year. And that is what kind of a god God is you know. It may seem to be such a small thing, but it's still annoying and absolutely deadly. Purposefully. And that is God's greatest weapon against all of humanity- from Arctic to the Amazon, no one is safe- even without it raining for months- especially with that amount of trash, plastic and tires that can catch water and become thier breeding grounds, long after anything wild and natural has utterly been destroyed.

    It's also unsettling to know that the unkillable mosquito was bred in the piles of people's stuff outside my window or another well in a building, rooftop or abandoned building and could have been sucking the blood of any one of the homeless addicts, drunkards, mentally ill or world traveling tourists who live in great numbers in the neighborhood before using the same proboscus upon me. I might as well just go down half a block to the homeless crowd in front of the subway entrance and ask them to borrow a needle to shoot up with. That would probably have less blood-borne pathogens in it though.

  77. c.... ....

    One of his angriest songs, along with Positively 4th Street

  78. T.... T....

    If I hate guitars but all I listen to is a bunch of people playing guitar, then I must hate every song I listen to? But I don't, and some I actually almost like. I just hate the thought of it, not the actual reality.

  79. M.... S....

    The cover picture is wrong. No one will escape his fate, I warned you. Nor me, nor the string-puller.

  80. 4.... ....

    Ode to Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfield, and Paul Wolfowitz

  81. E.... C....

    The 95 dislikes were no doubt are war mongers of the RNC, DNC, who are making money on the young peoples blood. The MIC, Exxon- Mobile, Sun Oil, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Halliburton, Wall Street, our government. You're transparent. We see right through you.

  82. T.... R....

    bob dylan draft dodger

    T.... R....

    @Tent Ringer yeah, he let other young men go to war in his place, cowardly, alot like his fans

    T.... R....

    @Travis Rabble how many people do you call 'coward' to their face? My guess is zero.

    T.... R....

    @Tent Ringer truth hurt? Your coward musician was too frightened to step up and help his generation. He allowed 19 year olds to die in his place. Think of this when you listen to his coward music.

    T.... R....

    Have a fantastic day.

    T.... R....

    @Tent Ringer just as I suspected, another pathetic degenerate.

  83. D.... W....

    For someone who was only 21, when he recorded this album, Bob Dylan sure was wise beyond his years. This album has diverse topics on it. Songs like this are still of relevance today. This lyrical brilliance and depth is not going to be duplicated very easily. If there was a list of the 10 best albums from the 1960s, this would have to be on the top of that list, for sure.

  84. b.... ....

    War. What is it good for?

  85. O.... M....

    What happened to us?

  86. 1.... a....

    Real shet!!

  87. B.... N....

    klajf;al

  88. J.... G....

    He still has his followers buffaloed! Do you think he and his son get together and have a belly laugh after each Council of Foreign Relations meeting, and they spin this fake tune as the shekels keep rolling in! What a fraudulent joke.

    J.... G....

    Get back on your meds Jody.

    J.... G....

    @viviandarkbloom100 Sinagoguevivvy - What an original and insightful riposte! Boy, you got me there blumenthal. Way to tackle the issue. As far as the meds, I'm way ahead of you schmuckleberg. Udachi.

    J.... G....

    @Jody Goar damn lady you're quite the angry one

  89. S.... 5....

    Listening to this on November 11th.

  90. D.... ....

    @donaldjtrump

    D.... ....

    You could not be in the same category of the man were talking about Bob's Music lyrics poetry and I could go on and on he's the man

  91. R.... ....

    My mom knew bob dylan.

  92. m.... h....

    i deticate this song to the war pig h clinton

  93. K.... J....

    hands down the greatest anti war song ever written. Bob motherfucking Dylan.

  94. s.... p....

    a bit obscure but i remember it, very profound.