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All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Bob Dylan
Truth, Lying, Add
Song: Things Have Changed, Album: The Essential Bob Dylan, 2000

Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I Proud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth "Rip down all hate," I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Bob Dylan
Rip, Lying, Hate
Song: My Back Pages

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

Bob Dylan
Philosophy, Lying, Truth Is
Song: Trouble in Mind

Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.

Bob Dylan
Song, Lying, Play
Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

Bob Dylan
Lying, Thinking, Persons
Interview with Ed Bradley, www.cbsnews.com. December 5, 2004.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

Bob Dylan
Song, Lying, Writing

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Bob Dylan
Lying, Want, Way
Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.

Bob Dylan
Death, Hurt, Lying
Song: Idiot Wind

Beyond here lies nothin' But the mountains of the past

Bob Dylan
Lying, Past, Mountain
Song: Beyond Here Lies Nothin', Album: Together Through Life, 2009

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

Bob Dylan
Lying, Heart, Waiting

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