'Sometimes I want to take to the road and plunder', says the singer, with 'Kill everybody ever done me wrong' under his breath". Other songs appear and disappear, like faces in the portholes of the ship of the hidden song. In a 2021 essay, Greil Marcus discussed the song in relation to the death-haunted early blues songs that have influenced Dylan throughout his career beginning with some that he recorded on his first album, 1962's Bob Dylan: "'Love Sick', the first song on Time Out of Mind is his own chair, his own version of the blues.As 'Love Sick' grows, grows as it opens up and spreads out as the song plays on Time Out of Mind, but far more so as the song was acted out onstage, you can hear the rhythms of ' See That My Grave Is Kept Clean' inside of it - underpinning the song like a ship moving through it. An article accompanying the list called it a "highlight of recent live shows with savage lyric changes: 'You thrilled me to my heart, and you ripped it all apart'". The Big Issue placed it at #50 on a 2021 list of the "80 best Bob Dylan songs - that aren't the greatest hits". In an article accompanying the list, critic Justin Cober-Lake called it a "dark, spacious cut with plenty of patience" that "grows darker with every listen". Spectrum Culture named it one of "Bob Dylan's 20 Best Songs of the 1990s". Ī 2015 USA Today article ranking "all of Bob Dylan's songs" placed "Love Sick" 15th (out of 359). They also compare the sound of his "dark, sepulchral" vocals, which were distorted by producer Daniel Lanois, to a classic horror film, and call the results "mesmerizing". In their book Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon praise the song's "simple but powerfully evocative lyrics: 'I'm walking through streets that are dead./ And the clouds are weeping'", and state that Dylan's "comeback" was worth the wait. It feels like the end, with the utter perfection of the accompaniment having its own understated say in the instrumental verse". The song is performed in the key of E minor and Attwood sees the desolate lyrical landscape as being reflected in the descending chord progression of the music: "the chords of E minor and D rock back and forth, and the verse ends with a descent of E minor, D major, B minor, A major – and the descent is a descent in every respect. Attwood notes that the song's point is revealed in the opening line: "it is the streets that are dead. Not Bob, not his relationship, but the entire world around him. He is walking through nothingness. He has no thoughts". Composition and recording ĭylan scholar Tony Attwood characterizes "Love Sick" as the "ultimate, absolute, total, complete lost love song" and "the strangest way ever to start an album – starting with what appears to be the end". It was released as the second single from the album in June 1998 in multiple CD versions, some of which featured Dylan's live performance of the song at the 1998 Grammy Awards. It was recorded in January 1997 and appears as the opening track on his 30th studio album Time Out of Mind (1997). Writer(s): FRIEND CLIFF, MILLS IRVINGLyrics powered by Love Sick" is a minor-key love song by American musician and Nobel laureate Bob Dylan. I got a feelin' called the blues, oh, Lord Since my baby said goodbye Lord, I don't know what I'll do All I do is sit and sigh, oh, Lord That last long day she said goodbye Well Lord I thought I would cry She'll do me, she'll do you, she's got that kind of lovin' Lord, I love to hear her when she calls me sweet daddy Such a beautiful dream I hate to think it all over, I've lost my heart it seems I've grown so used to you somehow Well, I'm nobody's sugar daddy now And I'm lonesome, I got the lovesick blues Well, I'm in love, I'm in love, with a beautiful gal That's what's the matter with me Well, I'm in love, I'm in love, with a beautiful gal But she don't care about me Lord, I tried and I tried, to keep her satisfied But she just wouldn't stay So now that she is leavin' This is all I can say I got a feelin' called the blues, oh, Lord Since my baby said goodbye Lord, I don't know what I'll do All I do is sit and sigh, oh, Lord That last long day she said goodbye Well Lord I thought I would cry She'll do me, she'll do you, she's got that kind of lovin' Lord, I love to hear her when she calls me sweet daddy Such a beautiful dream I hate to think it all over, I've lost my heart it seems I've grown so used to you somehow Lord I'm nobody's sugar daddy now And I'm lonesome, I got the lovesick blues
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