(And in case this is the first review you’ve ever read on this site, I would assure you, it doesn’t normally get as negative, or as lateral, as this).We now have a discussion group “Untold Dylan” on Facebook. Not the end, not the end Just remember that death is not the end. And there is nothing in me that makes me believe.Hello there Tony, Thank you for posting this analysis of a song from Bob Dylan’s Music Box: Thank you, Trev Gibb. I have tried to explain elsewhere why I think Dylan held back on “Blind Willie” for example, but I am completely unable to understand why “Caribbean Wind” (among others) was passed over in favour of this song.I have heard it said by some fellow musicians that every song can be rescued no matter how bad it is, and so I have been trying to find a version of this song I can live with (if you will pardon the expression at this point). And that bitter refrain, implying your suffering is never ending, is just as barbed a hook as Hill’s, and as likely to stay in your head.I think this irony shows the meaning of the song.


Not when he spells it all out as withWorse, and of course this is just my view, when in this song Dylan does decide to give us some images, they are so everyday, so ordinary, that they take us nowhere new.And just when we think it can’t get any more humdrum the next verse opensOf course Bob can’t just deliver such everyday lines throughout so we do, at the end, get a little light relief (as it were) withBut then that doesn’t link too well with all that has gone before.

Dylan questions both the Judiac and Christian traditionally established doctrines but unholds the spiritual values he finds in both. Well said. But doing the research for writing up this little note on this song, I did come across “Death is not the end” by Shut up and Dance which is also not to my taste, and nothing to do with Dylan but was a distraction. Nick Cave’s interpretation is the one which springs to mind, slightly broken due its dragging pace you feel it is being sung by an audience too deaf from old age to keep time.

And there's no one there to comfort you With a helpin' hand to lend Just remember that death is not the end. But it didn’t hit the streets until 1988 with “Down in the Groove” – and the recording most certainly is the same one as made originally in that it has Robbie Shakespeare and Mark Knopfler on it (although goodness knows what they thought was going …
Most of us in the end, as far as Bob is concerned, are Mr. Jones. As an explanation it is unusual, but possible. But then so is almost anything.So not for me, as you will have gathered. It doesn’t get much better than that.What’s more the last gospel song had come a year before, and looking at what else Dylan was writing at the time of that song (Thief on the Cross), it is clear that his mind had moved a long way from the period the hard core of Christian songs.“Lord Protect My Child” and “Death is not the end” must of course be linked, but it is curious that Dylan would record “Death” and release it on an album (although somewhat later) when there were so many other songs of such merit lurking around waiting for him to release his definitive version of each. But Heylin’s subsequent argument that a period of writer’s block was causing him difficulty is not held up by the quality of music that Dylan presented around this time. After we had that most sublime of blues variations “I once knew a man”. This is about the best I can find….There was however ultimately redemption for me – but I’ll come back to that in a minute – I’ll try and finish my review of “Death” first.And that leads to the question – if Dylan could only bring himself to play it once with the band (the recording on the album was done in one take only), and he has never once played it in question, why did he put it on the record?And while pondering this I also remembered the original cover to Down in the Groove (shown here). Another great wordsmith, Nick Cave, recorded it also.I don’t think there’s a single lame line in it. As a piece of poetry it just falls flat on its face.

Most of his fans, me included, don’t.

One must know the entire Bible and Jewish intellectual traditions dating back to the fall of the Temple in 70AD to really “get” Bob. Just remember that death is not the end Not the end, not the end Just remember that death is not the end Oh, the tree of life is growing Where the spirit never dies And the bright light of salvation shines In dark and empty skies When the cities are on fire With the burning flesh of men Just remember that death is not the end And you search in vain to find Just one law-abiding citizen Just remember that death is not …

When the storm clouds gather round you And heavy rains descend Just remember that death is not the end.


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