Released: June 23, 1980
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Barry Beckett Jerry Wexler
[Chorus]
Well, I’m hanging on to a solid rock
Made before the foundation of the world
And I won’t let go, and I can’t let go, won’t let go
And I can’t let go, won’t let go and I can’t let go no more
[Verse 1]
For me He was chastised, for me He was hated
For me He was rejected by a world that He created
Nations are angry, cursed are some
People are expecting a false peace to come
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
It’s the ways of the flesh to war against the spirit
Twenty-four hours a day you can feel it and you can hear it
Using all the devices under the sun
And He never give up ’til the battle’s lost or won
[Chorus]
Well, I’m hanging on to a solid rock
Made before the foundation of the world
And I won’t let go, and I can’t let go, won’t let go
And I can’t let go, won’t let go and I can’t let go no more
[Verse 1]
For me He was chastised, for me He was hated
For me He was rejected by a world that He created
Nations are angry, cursed are some
People are expecting a false peace to come
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
It’s the ways of the flesh to war against the spirit
Twenty-four hours a day you can feel it and you can hear it
Using all the devices under the sun
And He never give up ’til the battle’s lost or won
[Chorus]
more tracks from the album
From the albums
- Saved (1980)
- Biograph (1985)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 13: Trouble No More 1979–1981 (2017)
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- Mr. Tambourine Man
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Desolation Row
- Tangled Up in Blue
- Masters of War
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
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- Tempest
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- Visions of Johanna
- I Contain Multitudes
- To Fall in Love with You
- Shelter from the Storm