‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ will be Bob Dylan’s first album of original songs in eight years
on June 19th. Early Friday morning, Dylan dropped a third song from the album, the swaggering, guitar-heavy “,” which follows “Murder Most Foul” and “I Contain Multitudes.” “I ain’t no false prophet,” Dylan growls over a slinky striptease-blues groove, powered by a downright filthy fuzz-guitar riff. “I just know what I know.”
The song’s lyrics veer between existential weariness, Willie Dixon-worthy boasts, unabashed come-ons and more spiritual allusions. He nods to a Zen koan with a line about “climbing a mountain of swords with my bare feet,” quotes Martin Luther’s phrase “enemy of strife,” tells a “poor devil” to look up at a “city of God,” and ends the song by casually singing “I can’t remember when I was born/ and I forgot when I died,” followed by a fusillade of lead guitar.
Dylan, who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature, has long rejected the title of prophet, false or not. “You feel like an impostor when someone thinks you’re something and you’re not,” he told‘ Ed Bradley in 2004. “I never wanted to be a prophet or savior. Elvis, maybe. I could easily see myself becoming him. But prophet? No.”
In a widely reported passage from a 2007 memoir, former Pope Benedict wrote that he was unhappy with Dylan’s appearance at a Vatican youth event: “There was reason to be skeptical – I was, and in some ways I still am – over whether it was really right to allow this type of ‘prophet’ to appear.”, which he followed with three collections of standards:
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