In an article accompanying the list, critic Ian Maxton write that "The song might be seen as an early sketch for ' Murder Most Foul' – the invocation of ' Twist and Shout' stands out in the song’s unraveling of the past". Spectrum Culture included the song on a list of "Bob Dylan's 20 Best Songs of the '10s and Beyond". For me this is just a declamatory voice, and it breaks the mold of this record". He is a preacher, a con man he is lying through his teeth. He sounds like Luke the Drifter, Hank Williams’s religious alter-ego. I love the way he speechifies through the song. I have to tell you I haven’t listened to the words at all. Greil Marcus has cited "Long and Wasted Years" as the song that got him "into this record ", adding: "I just love it. Doyle praised the "small details" that make the song, "like when Dylan says, 'I ain’t seen my family in 20 years/That ain’t easy to understand, they may be dead by now/I lost track of ’em after they lost their land'”. Music journalist Patrick Doyle, writing in a 2020 Rolling Stone article where the song ranked 14th on a list of "The 25 Best Bob Dylan Songs of the 21st Century", compared the song's themes to Martin Scorsese's film The Irishman, observing that both feature a narrator looking back and surveying "the wreckage of a messy life". Musicologist and Dylan scholar Eyolf Ostrem called it Dylan's "craziest song in many years" and compared it to " Idiot Wind" as a "fabulous post-break up song". They note that Dylan's "singing is strong, half-sarcastic, half-ferocious". In their book Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon synopsize the song as describing the "twilight of a couple's contentious relationship" and raise the possibility that it may be "an allusion to the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden as described in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost". Dylan recites 10 four-line verses over a "descending chord progression that becomes relentlessly more intense" as it repeats for nearly four minutes. Unusually for a Dylan song, "Long and Wasted Years" has no musical chorus or bridge and there is no lyrical refrain. Like much of Dylan's 21st-century output, he produced the song himself using the pseudonym Jack Frost. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS)." Long and Wasted Years" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan that appears as the fourth track on his 2012 studio album Tempest and was anthologized on the 2016 reissue of The Essential Bob Dylan. Get the embed code Iron Maiden - Out of the Silent Planet Album Lyrics1.Aces High (live)2.Out of the Silent Planet3.Wasted Years (live)Iron Maiden Lyrics provided by Too much time on my hands, I got you on my mindĬan't ease this pain, so easily, when you can't find the words to sayĪnd it makes me wanna cry and throw my hands up to the sky From the coast of gold, across the seven seasīut now it seems, I'm just a stranger to myselfĪnd all the things I sometimes do, it isn't me but someone elseĪnother city goes by in the night, ain't it funny how it isĪnd my heart is lying there and will be til' my dying dayĪnd realize you're living in the golden years
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