Bob Dylan - Shot of Love
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Release date: 02 February 2011
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- Shot of Love
- Heart of Mine
- Property of Jesus
- Lenny Bruce
- Watered-Down Love
- The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar
- Dead Man, Dead Man
- In the Summertime
- Trouble
- Every Grain Of Sand
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Bob Dylan - Shot of Love: Wikipedia Album Entry
Shot of Love is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 21st studio album, released by Columbia Records in August 1981.
It is generally considered to be Dylan's last overtly religious, Christian album. Also, it was his first since becoming born-again to focus on secular themes, from straight-ahead love songs to an ode to the deceased comedian Lenny Bruce. Arrangements are rooted more in rock'n'roll, less in gospel than on Dylan's previous two albums.
At the time of its release, Shot of Love received mixed reviews; Paul Nelson of Rolling Stone in particular savaged the album, though he did single out the last track, "Every Grain Of Sand," as a stand-out. Shot of Love, while reaching UK #6, continued Dylan's US commercial decline, reaching #33 during a brief chart stay. By contrast, Bono of Irish band U2 described Shot of Love as one of his favourites, particularly due to Dylan's singing ability.
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Bob Dylan - Shot of Love Lyrics
Bob Dylan - Dead Man, Dead Man Lyrics
Uttering idle words from a reprobate mind
Clinging to strange promises, dying on the vine
Never bein' able to separate the good from the bad
Bob Dylan - Trouble Lyrics
Trouble in the city, trouble in the farm
You got your rabbit's foot, you got your good-luck charm
But they can't help you, none when there's trouble
Bob Dylan - The Groom's Still Waiting at The Altar Lyrics
Prayed in the ghetto
With my face in the cement
Heard the last moan of a boxer
Seen the massacre of the innocent
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Bob Dylan - Shot of Love Lyrics
I need a shot of love
I need a shot of love
Don't need a shot of heroin to kill my disease
Bob Dylan - Property of Jesus Lyrics
Go ahead and talk about him because he makes you doubt
Because he has denied himself the things that you can't live without
Laugh at him behind his back just like the others do
Remind him of what he used to be when he comes walkin' through
Bob Dylan - Lenny Bruce Lyrics
Lenny Bruce is dead
But his ghost lived on and on
Never did get any Golden Globe award
Never made it to Synanon
Bob Dylan - In The Summertime Lyrics
I was in your presence for an hour or so
Or was it a day? I truly don't know
Where the sun never set, where the trees hung low
By that soft and shining sea
Bob Dylan - Heart of Mine Lyrics
Heart of mine, be still
You can play with fire but you'll get the bill
Don't let her know
Bob Dylan - Every Grain of Sand Lyrics
In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
Thereâs a dyinâ voice within me reaching out somewhere
Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair
Bob Dylan - Watered Down Love Lyrics
Love that's pure hopes all things,
Believes all things, won't pull no strings,
Won't sneak up into your room, tall, dark and handsome,
Capture your heart and hold it for ransom.
