Released: October 30, 2007
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Patrick Carney Dan Auerbach
[Verse 1]
There was a wicked messenger
From Eli he did come
With a mind that multiplied
The smallest matter
When questioned who had sent for him
He answered with his thumb
For his tongue it could not speak, but only flatter
[Verse 2]
He stayed behind the assembly hall
It was there he made his bed
And often times he could be seen returning
Until one day he just appeared
With a note in his hand that read
"The soles of my feet, I swear they're burning,"
[Verse 3]
Oh, the leaves began to fall
The seas began to part
And the people that confronted him were many
And he was told with these few words
Which opened up his heart
"If you cannot bring good news, don't bring any."
There was a wicked messenger
From Eli he did come
With a mind that multiplied
The smallest matter
When questioned who had sent for him
He answered with his thumb
For his tongue it could not speak, but only flatter
[Verse 2]
He stayed behind the assembly hall
It was there he made his bed
And often times he could be seen returning
Until one day he just appeared
With a note in his hand that read
"The soles of my feet, I swear they're burning,"
[Verse 3]
Oh, the leaves began to fall
The seas began to part
And the people that confronted him were many
And he was told with these few words
Which opened up his heart
"If you cannot bring good news, don't bring any."
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I’m Not There: Original Soundtrack
- When the Ship Comes In
- Just Like A Woman
- Ballad Of A Thin Man
- Simple Twist Of Fate
- Billy 1
- I Wanna Be Your Lover
- I’m Not There
- Pressing On
- As I Went Out One Morning
- Mama, You’ve Been On My Mind/A Fraction Of Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
- The Times They Are A Changin’
- I’m Not There
- Dark Eyes
- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
- Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)
- Cold Irons Bound
- Fourth Time Around
- All Along The Watchtower
- I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
- Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
- Man in the Long Black Coat
- Can’t Leave Her Behind
- The Wicked Messenger
- One More Cup of Coffee
- Ring Them Bells
- Moonshiner
- Tombstone Blues
- Maggie’s Farm
- The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
- Goin’ To Acapulco
- Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
- Highway 61 Revisited
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