Revisiting Classics: Six Poems by Bob Dylan

Six Poems by Bob Dylan

i. Like a rolling stone

At that time, you were beautifully dressed and proud of your youth,

You threw a coin to the tramp,

didn't you?

People shout, beware of beautiful girls, you must stumble.

You think they are making fun of you.

In the past, you used to laugh at people who were hanging out.

Now you don't speak so loudly.

It seems that you are not so arrogant and smart.

Now you have to search for the next meal of your three meals.

How does that feel? How does that feel?

You are alone, homeless

Like a nobody, like a rolling stone

You have entered the best school, no problem, Miss Lonely

But you know that you used to get drunk in it

No one taught you how to live in the street

Now you have to get used to this life

You are right about the mysterious tramp

You.

Oh, you never turn around and see people frown

For those jumpers and clowns, when they perform tricks for you, you never understand that it's not so bad

You shouldn't let others get kicked by you, because you

At that time, you often straddled your chrome yellow horse and your diplomat

He carried a Siamese cat on his shoulder

.

He wasn't there, only the cat

He took everything that could be stolen from you

The princess was on the steeple with all the beautiful people

They all drank wine and exchanged all the precious gifts with wishful thinking

You'd better take off your diamond ring and treat this baby as a gift

You used to think it was so funny

. How does that feel?

You are alone, with no direction to go home

Like a nobody, like a rolling stone

Ⅱ. Revisiting Highway 61

God said to Abraham, "Kill one of your sons."

Abel said, "Lord, you must be bullying me."

God said, "No."

Abel said, "What's that?"

God said, "Abel, you can do what you want,

but the next time you see me, you'd better run at once."

Then Abel said, "Where do you want this killing to happen?"

God said, "Highway 61."

Sam in Georgia is not without thin clothes given by the welfare department,

but he still has a nose that is red with cold.

He asked poor Howard, "Where can I go to avoid the cold?"

Howard said, "I know a place like this."

Sam said, "Please tell me quickly where I am going."

Howard pointed his gun in one direction.

He said, "You can lie on Highway 61."

"Finger" Meike said to "King" Louis:

"I have forty red, white and blue shoelaces,

and 1 phones that can't ring.

Do you know where I can sell these things?"

"King" Louis said, "Let me think, son."

Then he said, "Ah, I think of a very suitable place to

throw those things you mentioned on Highway 61."

The fifth daughter in "Twelfth Night" said to the first father,

"Too bad," she said, "My skin color is too pale."

"Come here and stand in the light", he said, "Oh, you're right.

Let me tell the second mother that things are terrible."

But the second mother and the seventh son,

are on Highway 61.

A wandering gambler was bored.

He tried to start the next world war.

He found a noble person who had suffered setbacks before to help him.

The noble person said, "I have never done such a thing before.

But I think it must be very simple.

We just need to find some bleaching powder to dry in the sun,

and then sprinkle it on 61.

III. The answer is floating in the wind

How many roads must a man walk

before he can be called a man

How much sea water must a white pigeon cross

before he can sleep on the beach

How many times must a shell fly in the sky

before it can be banned forever

The answer, my friend, Floating in the wind

The answer is floating in the wind

Yes, how many years does it take for a mountain to be washed to the sea

Yes, how many years does it take for some people to be free

Yes, how many times can a person turn his head

Pretend that he just didn't see

The answer, my friend, Floating in the wind

The answer is floating in the wind

Yes, how many times does a person have to look up

Before he can see the sky

Yes, how many ears does a person have

Before he can hear people cry

Yes, how many lives does it take

Before he can know that too many people have died

The answer, my friend, Floating in the wind

The answer is floating in the wind

Ⅳ. I will finally be liberated

They say everyone needs protection

They say everyone will be depressed

But I swear I see my shadow

somewhere above the high wall

I see my light appear

shining from the west to the east.

I will be released any day, at any time

.

Here in this lonely crowd

Someone next to me swore that he was innocent.

I heard him shouting all day,

shouting that he had been wronged.

I saw my light appear,

from the west to the east.

Someday, no matter when,

I will finally be liberated.

ⅴ. Just like a woman

No one feels any pain

When I stand in the rain tonight

Everyone knows that the girl has bought new clothes,

But recently I saw her ribbon and hairpin

fall from her curly hair

She behaves like a woman

She makes love like a woman

Then she hurts like a woman.

No one had to guess that the girl was not praised

until she finally realized that she had her confusion, her amphetamines and her pearls like everyone else

She behaved like a woman

She had sex like a woman

Then she was in pain like a woman

But she was like a little girl when she tore her face

At first it rained. I was dying of thirst there

so I came in here

and your long cursing made me sad, but what's worse

the pain here

I can't stay here

This is clear ...

Because I'm not suitable

I believe it's time for us to end

But when we meet again, we are introduced as friends. And that's your world

you act like a woman

you make love like a woman

then you ache like a woman

but you break up like a little girl

(translated by Li Hui)

ⅵ. Mr tambourine

Hey! Mr tambourine, sing a song for me.

I don't want to sleep but I have no place to go.

Hey! Mr tambourine, sing a song for me.

In the morning when the bell is ringing, I will go with you.

Although I know that the empire of the night has sneaked back to the beach,

and disappeared from my hands,

I stood here without sleep,

Boredom surprised me, my feet were stamped,

No one will meet,

This ancient empty street

is too dead for a dreamer.

hey! Mr tambourine, sing a song for me.

I don't want to sleep but I have no place to go.

Hey! Mr tambourine, sing a song for me.

In the morning when the bell is ringing, I will go with you.

Let me board your magical turbine and sail,

My senses are naked,

My hands can't feel my grip,

My toes are numb,

I can't move, so I can only roam with my boots.

I'm ready to drift around and disappear on my own journey.

Read me your spell and let me dance with it.

I swear I will obey it, I swear.

hey! Mr tambourine, sing a song for me.

I don't want to sleep but I have no place to go.

Hey! Mr tambourine, sing a song for me.

In the morning when the bell is ringing, I will go with you.

Although you will hear laughter, spinning, swinging and flying over the sun crazily,

This is not aimed at anyone, but an escape and exile.

There is no barrier in front of the sky,

If you hear vague rhyme echoing your tambourine

It's just a clown in rags hiding behind,

I said, ignore him.

hey! Mr tambourine, sing a song for me.

I don't want to sleep but I have no place to go.

Hey! Mr tambourine, sing a song for me.

I will go with you in this morning when the bell is ringing.

Then take me away, disappear into the smoke circle of thoughts,

down the foggy ruins of time, wading far over frozen fallen leaves,

ghostly and frightened Woods,

escape from the tangled hands of madness and sorrow, and

head for the windy beach.

Oh, yes, dancing under the diamond sky, dancing freely with one hand,

sand surrounds the dance floor for you

the sea draws a silhouette for you.

Memory and fate are driven into deep waves,

Let me forget today until tomorrow comes.

hey! Mr tambourine, sing a song for me.

I don't want to sleep but I have no place to go.

Hey! Mr tambourine, sing a song for me.

I will go with you in this morning when the bell is ringing.

(translated by Li Wan)