"Ain't Talkin'"
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"Ain't Talkin'"
by Bob Dylan
From the album Modern Times (2006)
Written by BrettHetherington (4)
The final compelling eight minutes and forty eight seconds of Modern Times is the culmination of the apocalypse theme which has been implicit during several of the previous tracks.
In this plodding but enthralling narrative, Dylan may be paying a kind of homage to Johnny Cash. He calmly informs us:
In the human heart an evil spirit can dwell
I'm trying to love my neighbor and do good unto others
But oh, mother, things ain't going well
Bob Dylan concludes Modern Times in the most atmospheric and dark way possible. There is no hope left in the desert where he is just walking alone and silent. One cannot help wondering if this man's belief in the finality of the planet is actually an expression of dreading his own mortality.
Now only a few years from being seventy, Dylan seems to understandably have one eye on the hands of time.
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