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The cover works well at a number of levels. Especially today.

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'Gentlemen,' he said, 'I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes I've moved your mountains and marked your cards. But Eden is burning -- either brace yourself for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.'

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Dylan has never explained to whom those lyrics referred. They are timeless and could be projected onto Trump. Recorded in 1978, other lyrics suggest that Dylan was self-referential with "16 years" referring back to 1962 when he took the stage. Anyways, it's been about 16 years since Bill Clinton left and there are plenty of desperate men and desperate women divided, spreading their wings 'neath falling leaves.

Full lyrics after the jump

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'Gentlemen,' he said, 'I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes

I've moved your mountains and marked your cards

But Eden is burning -- either brace yourself for elimination

Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.'

Full lyrics after the jump

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The sound quality is poor but I still like the song. It sounded better recorded on vinyl, spun by an AR turntable, picked up by a Shure cartridge, amplified by a Marantz receiver, and converted back to sound waves by Advent loudspeakers.

I bought that album then for that song, and I still like it for the guitar solo beginning around 4 min 17 sec -- but also for the lyrics.

Other fan facts about the Blue Öyster Cult:

• They were the first band to use umlauts in their name -- ostensibly because it looked "Wagnerian."

• Patti Smith dated a band member and contributed lyrics to this album (but not that song which was written by Sandy Pearlman).

• They are posing with a German Messerschmitt Me 262, the very first fighter jet. One of those hangs in the Smithsonian Aerospace Museum in D.C. The Me 262 was in the news today: link

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Would you like to rule the world?  How about your own world?

I think her cover is better than the original. YMMV

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phx said...I would like to see more Bob Dylan posts here if you please.