"Tears of Rage" by Bob Dylan & Richard Manuel

Описание: Finally! A song by one of the greatest songwriters of all time - Bob Dylan.
Dylan's usually the sole writer, but here he shares the credit with Richard Manuel of The Band. This is a song from the mythical Basement Tapes. Dylan and the guys from The Band recorded a lot of songs in a makeshift studio, set up in the basement of a pink-painted house in Woodstock. Some were covers of old folk songs and standards, and others were new songs - often written seemingly on the spot! Among a lot of amazing songs is this gem.
The song is probably best known as the opening tune on the first Band album "Music From Big Pink". Richard Manuel sings his heart out, and it's a fantastic way to open an album - slow and filled with passion and hurt. It really stuck out in the late 60's where psychedelia was all the rage.
Richard Manuel wrote other great songs for the band, but is probably best known as a singer. After The Band broke up in '77, his drinking and drug-intake increased, and a solo-career didn't really materialize. He got back together with most of the other members in the 80's, but Manuel was a tortured soul, and finally hung himself in a motel room, after a gig with The Band, in 1986. His voice, musicianship and songwriting talent is a great loss to this world.

"We carried you in our arms
On Independence Day
And now you'll throw us all aside
And put us all away

Oh, what dear daughter 'neath the sun
Could treat a father so?
To wait upon him hand and foot
Yet always answer, "No"

Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so low
And life is brief

It was all so very painless
When you ran out to receive
All that false instruction
Which we never could believe

And now the heart is filled with gold
As if it was a purse
But, oh, what kind of love is this
Which goes from bad to worse?

Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so low
And life is brief

We pointed you the way to go
And scratched your name in sand
Though you thought it was nothing more
Than a place for you to stand

I want you to know that while we watched
You discovered that no one would be true
That I myself was among the ones who thought
It was just a childish thing to do

Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so low
And life is brief"

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