No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

01:18:24,981 --> 01:18:26,881 <i>and imagining the Mississippi</i> 986 01:18:26,983 --> 01:18:30,544 <i>I had a baseball mitt and an American Flyer bike</i> 987 01:18:30,654 --> 01:18:32,349 <i>Everything was meshed up at that time.</i> 988 01:18:32,455 --> 01:18:36,118 <i>Everything was like just all in like a blender.</i> 989 01:18:36,226 --> 01:18:39,320 <i>Everyone was interested in whatever was going on.</i> 990 01:18:39,429 --> 01:18:42,626 I stayed at a lot of people's houses which had poetry books... 991 01:18:42,732 --> 01:18:44,324 and poetry volumes... 992 01:18:44,434 --> 01:18:47,528 and I'd read what I found... 993 01:18:47,937 --> 01:18:51,065 I found Verlaine poems or Rimbaud... 994 01:18:51,174 --> 01:18:53,404 <i>you know, "Drunken Boat," Illuminations.</i> 995 01:18:53,510 --> 01:18:57,241 Whether it was these wild and crazy poets that were getting up on stage... 996 01:18:57,347 --> 01:19:01,044 or whether it was a musician playing some riff in a jazz club... 997 01:19:01,151 --> 01:19:04,177 or some bluegrass guy, some old roots music... 998 01:19:04,688 --> 01:19:09,022 it filters through you, you speak them when they come out verbally and you play them. 999 01:19:09,125 --> 01:19:13,687 <i>We were doing things totally instinctively. It was an instinctive awakening.</i> 1000 01:19:13,963 --> 01:19:17,421 <i>Lightning strikes every once in a while, in a different place.</i> 1001 01:19:17,934 --> 01:19:19,367 Nobody knows why. 1002 01:19:19,469 --> 01:19:21,835 The night of the Cuban Missile Crisis... 1003 01:19:22,072 --> 01:19:26,202 the general feeling was, the world was gonna end or something like that. 1004 01:19:26,309 --> 01:19:27,544 <i>I mean, it's quite heavy.</i> 1005 01:19:27,610 --> 01:19:30,374 I walked into The Gaslight and Bob was there. 1006 01:19:31,414 --> 01:19:33,439 Just a few people listening to him sing. 1007 01:19:33,550 --> 01:19:36,246 He said, "Why don't you come up, we'll sing some songs together. 1008 01:19:36,352 --> 01:19:40,379 <i>"Let's do that old Carter Family song.; You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone. "</i> 1009 01:19:40,490 --> 01:19:44,051 I was playing the nice Carter Family thing, and we're singing. 1010 01:19:44,160 --> 01:19:47,288 And I'm thinking, "Who's gonna miss us when we're gone? 1011 01:19:47,397 --> 01:19:49,388 "We're all gonna be gone, you know. 1012 01:19:50,934 --> 01:19:52,231 "What the hell is this?" 1013 01:19:52,535 --> 01:19:56,403 <i>Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?</i> 1014 01:19:59,409 --> 01:20:03,140 <i>And where have you been, my darling young one?</i> 1015 01:20:05,915 --> 01:20:10,113 <i>I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains.</i> 1016 01:20:12,689 --> 01:20:16,819 <i>I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways</i> 1017 01:20:19,395 --> 01:20:23,229 <i>I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests</i> 1018 01:20:26,069 --> 01:20:30,005 <i>I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans</i> 1019 01:20:32,642 --> 01:20:37,102 <i>I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard</i> 1020 01:20:39,182 --> 01:20:42,948 <i>And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard</i> 1021 01:20:44,888 --> 01:20:46,788 <i>it's a hard</i> 1022 01:20:46,890 --> 01:20:51,657 <i>It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.</i> 1023 01:20:54,230 --> 01:20:58,098 When I got back from India, and got to the West Coast... 1024 01:20:58,201 --> 01:21:00,328 there was a poet, Charlie Plymell... 1025 01:21:02,539 --> 01:21:04,632 at a party in Bolinas... 1026 01:21:04,908 --> 01:21:07,672 played me a record of this new young folk singer. 1027 01:21:08,444 --> 01:21:09,934 And I heard... 1028 01:21:12,215 --> 01:21:14,115 <i>Hard Rain, I think...</i> 1029 01:21:16,586 --> 01:21:17,814 and wept. 1030 01:21:24,127 --> 01:21:28,257 'Cause it seemed that... 1031 01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:33,198 the torch had been passed... 1032 01:21:34,337 --> 01:21:36,100 to another generation. 1033 01:21:36,206 --> 01:21:40,267 From earlier bohemian or beat... 1034 01:21:41,144 --> 01:21:44,477 illumination and self-empowerment. 1035 01:21:46,616 --> 01:21:50,482 <i>And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?</i> 1036 01:21:51,087 --> 01:21:54,750 <i>And what'll you do now, my darling young one?</i> 1037 01:21:57,393 --> 01:22:01,386 <i>I'm a-going back out before the rain starts a-fallin'</i> 1038 01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:07,832 <i>And I'll head for the depths of the deepest dark forest</i> 1039 01:22:09,606 --> 01:22:14,043 <i>Where the people are many and their hands are all empty</i> 1040 01:22:14,978 --> 01:22:19,415 <i>Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters</i> 1041 01:22:20,650 --> 01:22:24,711 <i>And I'll tell it, and think it, and speak it, and breathe it</i> 1042 01:22:26,823 --> 01:22:31,055 <i>And reflect from the mountain so all