Patti Smith - Changing Of The Guards Lyrics

Loved this absolutely fabulous musician since I was a kid.

A strong woman, unique

A poetic delivery. A divine portrait. Patti injects nubile life with it simplicity. Xx

She could be singing this in esperanto. It would still sound stunning.

I know people like Dylan's covers by other artists more than the original version. I don't. The covers are often "sweet" and "melodious." Dylan's versions are raw, chaotic, weird, not hung up on making the lyrics sound "sweet."

I like this cover though. Something about the lyrics' cryptic and "longing" nature wasn't lost in Patti's singing.

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Maravillosa Patti 💃🏻🎸

Te vi ayer en el Caupolicán!!! Grande Patti .. única 🌺🍀💐🌸

Great vocal. I miss the gypsy fiddles!

Oops wrong song!

She is a much better singer than given credit for.

A gem of a cover by Ms. Patti. Any artist who gives more credence to the masterpiece of an album that Street Legal is . . . well, welcome into my musical library (plus she has performed with Mr. Dylan). And the locust's sang . . .

Patti Smith saved my life. Ok maybe not my life but certainly my death

agree...Patti turned this into something Dylan meant but just could not show

I want to hear Neil playing Old Black (not singing) on this.

And the V.U's "Hey Mr. Rain" not singing at all on this.
From 'Live MCMXCIII'

The, Blue, album

absolutely genius of versions

Je ne m'en lasse pas

Top Chick She looks Pretty

How does this have so many likes??Do you guys actually like this???? She sings to you like you are retarded, in a slow over pronounced tone, patronizing... im not trying to offend anyone, but just take a minute and go listen to Dylans version and youll understand what i mean. It is an amazing song with great depth that captures the spirit of rock,n,roll, gospel ,folk and the future.....Not this watered down horseshit

damn what a song

oh my god!

Witchcraft!

Patti is an Amazing artist.

This is great. This song is almost impossible to cover - I've tried. But she does it, and does it great.

MERAVIGLIOSA

Patti + Dylan : The King + Queen

great cover she had a girly crush on him

Bob Dylan

pure poetry

Beautiful rendition

Excellent !

A tapestry weave concealing a warp thread of revellations

Words Patti Smith = P-at Wordsmiths it ... Guarder Guard Er -
Chanson ====> C Han S on - C Hans on -
Changing ====> C Han G in G - C Han Ging -
Changer ====> C Han Ger - C Hang Er - C Hanger

This and Dylan's original are both equally as amazing imho. Dylan is my favorite artist, so i'm pretty picky about the covers of his songs, and this song covered by Smith, All along the watchtower covered by Jimi, and Mark Lanegan's AMAZING cover of man in long black coat are my top 3

Keep on rocking in the free world.

The Dylan version is very good, but the instrumentation I always thought was a little bit off. This version is quietly intense in its own way.

I used to listen to this particular song, on 8-track, Dylan. Over and over and over, when I was about 9. It was, and remains the only time I want Dylan to shut up. Only Patti could pull this off. Bryan Ferry has done many Dylan covers. I think this scares even him. Gorgeous.

nailed it

these lyrics make no goddamned sense whatsoever . love patti smith but the poetry is just airheaded phsyco babble imo .

@Paddy Ohara yes , i know . dylan . i still like rock that tells a story . eg ; ( alice cooper - man of the year )
thats one hell of a story bout a man who appeared to have it all . there hasnt been better storytellers since the bruders grimm . ( imo )

Robert Searcy
Tell the truth.. I'm into 90's Goa trance..no lyrics..

@Robert Searcy Dylan has over 40 Albums and 400 songs. He has more than a few that tell a Literal Story if that is what you Desire. Yes Changing of the Guards is more cryptic. But it is essentially Dylans story up to that point. This is just before his Christian conversion. This presages that change that was coming.

Listen to Romance in Durango.

@viviandarkbloom100 i tried vivian . thats all i'll say ' :)>

Is it just me or is the syncopation in this version of the song a triumph? That slippery drum bass thing really underpins this song and turns what could be just an ordinary cover into a brilliant one.

Höre Patti Smith sehr gerne, aber da is das Original besser, von Bob Dylan. Aber schlecht interpretiert Sie es nicht.

Bob Dylan is best.

Ma che bella... 👏

P recious
A mazing
T ruly
T riffic
I conoclastic

I haven't followed Patti Smith much, but I really like this cover. I think Dylan's original is a masterpiece, and I don't use that word lightly, except when I'm talking about Dylan, lol.

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People have the power...

I love PJ Harvey but i love Patti Smith even more!

why 115?

I really hate to say this , but I think this could actually
be better then the original . Sorry Bob .

une idée du paradis

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VERY, VERY Much so.








But, alas no long locks,
down is, distance.

She, maybree
he seed,
lettin' the side down
EH? Laydees.

14 years
the 2 of them
2 auntie'''s
when ahhhhh was 3.
nowadys 2 soldier esses
where is my turns
I'm beggin' to know
I clutch too alla yer long locks

3.00 onwards then......

T@me, he speaks of senseless things, who is waitin' in my wings?

WHO TOOK EN THE COMMENT O' MINEN, AWAYYYYY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrjHz5hrupA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoCWUNUB3ro

And fake the rest,
who wore he dress d?

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

Stupenda

I like this more than the original.

FANTASTICA PATTI SMITH

I think David might have wanted to meet Patti, a confluence of words. recurrance it's on her dress rebel rebel sway dance with him before their frozen eyes

This was recommended for me.

~Wonderful~

Have u seen Dylan’s dog it got wings it can fly.
So can I- not for selfish reasons thi

patti makes this song her own ala because the night . just an awesome version !

easily one of most powerful & excellent covers ever...Easily.

Gn 3;24 😉

MORTELLE ET BELLE REPRISE D'UNE SUPERBE CHANSON DE MISTER DYLAN

Hi Captain. Are you going to wait forever?

j'adore l'interpretation de Patti Smith de ce must de Bob Dylan

It's like Dylan says: The song seems to take on a slightly different meaning each time you hear it. I like Patti's version better.

I Oslo love It

Finland love it too .

Something about her.. What the fuck is it ??? Someone help me find the words ?

she accept his nobel prize.

I had earned my first pay check in California and walked into a music store and Blood On The Tracks (Jack'o hearts) was playing . I bought that album before even having bread or milk, LOL. I thought Blood on the Tracks and Street Legal were both equally Mr. Zimmerman's best works..

I agree. My favorites as well.

the  future  is  fe-male

cute chick  +   boy  rhythms

Written by a genius poet ~~ sung by a young angel

I Was caught between Jupiter and Apollo.. she still wrecks my head...women....what they like...xxx

Nice one Patti, great cover of one of Dylan's great lyrics...complex profound.no one knows what is about...but who cares...sends shivers down my spine.. .the sort of lyric...he won the Laurette. for....rock n roll xx..

I was never a Patty smith's fan at all, don't even have any record of her, but this version is really "fuuuucking good"!!! I would also miss the chorus, the horns and about the theme, it's not that bad, but just one time somewhere inside would have been perfect..

Wrong Album Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XipcpFcRwQ8

Love this and Sharing + Thanks......

Nice version of what is perhaps the most UNDERRATED song in the Dylan canon

what a great cover real sublime

once i thought ya couldnt sing. lol. i was 14 and a dick. i get it now

This is great !!!

Who might doesn't like Patti Smith? What an amazing voice.

Fucking incredible

Has she shaved her moustache yet?

This gets better every time I listen to it.

bella versione ma in confronto a quella di Dylan nn c è paragone

latscho

Saw her in a bar in East Lansing Michigan in 1975. As she walked to the stage she passed within close arm distance from me. I could easily have reached out and touched her, but she looked as if she'd have torn my arm off and beat me with it. God, was it really that long ago?

A timeless song in our interesting times.

sorry; interesting times??

@sebas de bordeaux joan d' arc

Epic
Great Poetry
Amazing cover

LYRICS

Sixteen years
Sixteen banners united over the field
Where the good shepherd grieves
Desperate men, desperate women divided
Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves

Fortune calls
I stepped forth from the shadows to the marketplace
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born
On midsummer's eve, near the tower

The cold-blooded moon
The captain waits above the celebration
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Whose ebony face is beyond communication
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid

They shaved her head
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil

I stumbled to my feet
I rode past destruction in the ditches
With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you

The palace of mirrors
Where dog soldiers are reflected
The endless road and the wailing of chimes
The empty rooms where her memory is protected
Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times

She wakes him up
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks
She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking
He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks

Gentlemen, he said
I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning, either getting ready for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards

Peace will come
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
Between the King and the Queen of Swords

lil mess up in the eden part

Thank you

Drunk' soldiers with satan supping his nectar down
They wear a frown
over the field,
where they lay the treasure maid down
time has tolled
just around time, newer best

where they retreat beaten from the street
see the flag that now they must wear
enrapt in the white vest, tightened round their chest

As Hades trapt them in the west
peace shalom now come
Hades and her man have always been there
and always yet to begun

And magick is surely in the air
And her man,
is still
still yet to awaken from his, long slumbering days
and always will be there and still yet to begun

Circling in cycles, the Earth lightened down
Despite it burdens
Spins on and on.

This little ditty came to me while i was 'High'
On fresh air and a cuppa tea, with a photo of my Marianne
Listening to Iggy Pop on my PC in another window, sing 'High on you' in the heaphones
been a long time now I've not been high on illegal drugs including ale, get with it, its for mugs.

I have called it 'Earthened in its ale forced fused haze, shaken off its dias in all the days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4v6swKWx9A

Just to lighten up
even if you don't smoke.

@jason senator that's my favorite verse

MY GOD! But how I love Patti!

Magiske Patti <3