Y suena ese órgano de fondo, empieza bien arriba el tema con Dylan a la cabeza tocando el piano, seguido por sus mosqueteros, que luego serían llamados The Band, y sumado Al Kooper, un guitarrista que dijo "vamos a probar que puedo hacer con este aparato llamado órgano". ¿Y qué dio como resultado? El tema que marcó un antes y un después en la vida de Dylan. Sus palabras: "Yo nunca había compuesto algo así. De repente comprendí que era lo que debía hacer. Tras componer eso, no me interesó ya escribir una novela u obra de teatro. Como si ya tuviera demasiado, quería componer canciones (...) Like A Rolling Stone abrió nuevos caminos. No creo que la radio hubiera tocado antes un tema así. Sé que nunca antes había oído un tema así. Y todo lo que había hecho hasta ese momento me había llevado a componer un tema así, sin esfuerzo". Dylan transformó lo que llamó un vómito de sentimientos de venganza, odio, resentimiento y bronca en uno de los temas más revolucionarios de la historia del rock. ¿Y quién la vino a ligar? Esta pobre chica de clasa alta que estaba destinada a caer, que solía reírse de los que no hacían nada y que ahora no camina con tanto orgullo ni habla tan alto. Ahora está con los que nunca creyó que iba a estar. Ahora es invisible, no tiene secretos que ocultar ni nada que perder...
Los versos más cargados de sentimiento son sin duda los del estribillo, aquellos que demuestran ese descargue que tanto parece necesitar Dylan, con la voz que chilla en un tono ronco y afinado a la vez, con esa bronca que se puede discernir como la claridad del agua, ese malestar que te transmite que te dan ganas de romper todo lo que tenés alrededor... ¿¡¿¡How does it feel!?!?!. Ya fue, me fui a romper un tele...
"Like A Rolling Stone"
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime,
Didn't you?
Yeah, people'd call, say "Beware doll, you're
bound to fall"
You thought they were just kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
And now you don't walk so proud
Now you don't talk so loud
About having to be scrounging
Your next meal
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?
You went to the finest schools all right,
Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get -
Juiced in it
Nobody taught you how to
Live out on the street
But now you are gonna have to get -
Used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
That he's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say: "Do you want to make a deal?"
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?
Yeah, the princess on the steeple
All the pretty people
Drinkin', thinkin' that they
Got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts
But you'd better take that diamond ring,
You'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Now go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?
Threw the bums a dime in your prime,
Didn't you?
Yeah, people'd call, say "Beware doll, you're
bound to fall"
You thought they were just kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
And now you don't walk so proud
Now you don't talk so loud
About having to be scrounging
Your next meal
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?
You went to the finest schools all right,
Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get -
Juiced in it
Nobody taught you how to
Live out on the street
But now you are gonna have to get -
Used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
That he's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say: "Do you want to make a deal?"
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?
Yeah, the princess on the steeple
All the pretty people
Drinkin', thinkin' that they
Got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts
But you'd better take that diamond ring,
You'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Now go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone?

Muy buen blog, la verdad que los comentarios son de una gran calidad, y se ve, claramente, que Dylan es una de tus pasiones.
ResponderEliminarMe gustaría ponerme en contacto con vos, tengo una gran colección de cosas de Bobby, espero que podamos contactarnos.
Un gran abrazo colega.