Bob Dylan - Empire Burlesque

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Release date: 02 February 2011

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Bob Dylan - Empire Burlesque: Wikipedia Album Entry

Empire Burlesque is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 23rd studio album, released by Columbia Records in June 1985.

The production techniques used on Empire Burlesque are typical of the 1980s, and contemporary critics find it to be one of the few Dylan albums that now sound quite dated. However, the songwriting is generally considered to be some of Dylan's strongest of the decade, with such notable compositions as "Tight Connection to My Heart" and "Dark Eyes."

Fans and critics continue to debate the album's merits, especially when compared to Dylan's classics of the 1960s and 1970s. It's one of Dylan's most controversial albums in terms of quality. The album peaked at #33 in the US and #11 in the UK.

The album was unavailable on iTunes until 2006, when it was added as a part of the Bob Dylan: The Collection series, but when that was discontinued in 2009, it was made available by itself.

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Trust yourself
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Trust yourself
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And I couldn't with you around my neck
I said I'd send for you and I did
What did you expect?

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Something is burnin' baby, are you aware?
Something is the matter baby, there's smoke in your hair
Are you still my friend baby, show me a sign
Is the love in your heart for me is turnin' blind?

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Well, I thought that the rain would cool things down
But it looks like it don't
I'd like to get you to change your mind
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Now you're here beside me baby
You're a living dream
And every time you get this close
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I'll remember you
When I've forgotten all the rest
You to me were true
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Come baby, find me, come baby, remind me of where I once begun
Come baby, show me, show me you know me, tell me you're the one
I could be learning, you could be yearning to see behind closed doors
But I will always be emotionally yours

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Bob Dylan - Dark Eyes Lyrics

Oh the gentlemen are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside
They're drinking up and walking and it is time for me to slide
I live in another world, where life and death are memorized
Where the earth is strung with lovers pearls and all I see are a dark eyes

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Bob Dylan - When The Night Comes Falling from The Sky Lyrics

Look out across the fields, see me returnin'
Smoke is in your eyes, you draw a smile
From the fireplace where my letters to you are burning
You've had time to think about it for a while

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