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"Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" is a song Bob Dylan wrote about leaving his female-friend in the middle of the night and in his voice in this song, you can really hear how he hurts. It seems everyone in the world has covered this song, Radiohead, Peter, Paul and Mary, and a few more whose names I cannot think of right now, but the original is far superior. One verse goes like this though:
"I'm walking down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, gal
So I'll just say 'Fare thee well'
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could've done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"
I'm a HUGE Dylan fan, I've seen him 3 times which is every time he's been remotely near in the last 7 years or so, each time with my pops, but his new rockin' style lacks all truly creative energy he once had, he's a man on decline, sadly. However, another two of his very best songs, but that are both depressing as hell is "Percy's Song" and "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll." "Percy's Song" is about his buddy going to jail for 99 years for "manslaughter, in the higest of degrees" when he was in a car accident claiming the lives of 4 others. "The Lonesome...." is about an Aristocrat going free for Murder One, when he slays his maid out of fury from a dinner discussion, and does it at dinner. The way these two songs are juxtaposed on the Dylan box set is pretty damn depressing as well. I presume it to be intentional, but I wonder...
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