Bob Dylan - The Great Inferno

Описание: Bob Dylan - The Great Inferno

Written and produced by Ed Fram #EdFram #SingerSongwriter

Performance by Bob Dylan is AI generated #bobdylan

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Lyrics:

Chop ‘em, float ‘em down
Gold-growing trees
All around this lumber town
Sawdust-covered streets
No faces on the people you meet
Here, it’s each to their own
In this ol’ timber town

Let them put their own house in order
Before building this powerhouse
The Lady was sent to warn her
She listened, meek as a church mouse

But with the coming of machines and might
They go on with the industrial powerhouse
Commerce dictates what’s right
Not some fire that can’t be doused

A modern Sodom
Debauchery and brawls
It can’t go on
The Lady warned all
Adele, she was sent
To tell and teach
To call all to repent
To hear what she preached

Twelve years on, short a day
Only five acres were spared
An Emerald Isle by Green Bay
The flames they flared and flared
Saving only those who went to pray

The timber man cut down
The richest man in Chicago town
Dispossessed of all he owned
The factory, with all his cogs and clones

The great inferno
On the Lake Michigan shores
They drowned in the waters
Cornered on all fours

Frozen in a fire
No refuge, the River of Peshtigo
You’d think me a liar
If it wasn’t recorded long ago

The Great Inferno!
The Great Inferno!
The Great Inferno!

Some say it was caused by a comet
Or a wayward cow
A lantern knocked over
Some accept by any means now
Over and above, Heaven above
But tell me, if not by calamity then how
How will we listen to the message of love
I hear it calling, it’s still calling us now …

~Ed Fram, November 2025