Bob Dylan - She's Your Lover Now (Studio Outtake - 1966 - Official Audio) 

55 years later and still don't understand why the producer didn't go "great, Bob, now we're doing only the last part and we're good".

"One of the most terrifying performances ever recorded." - Greil Marcus

Imagine being so prolific you can't even be botherd to finish one of your greatest ever songs because you will be writing another classic in 10 minutes time no one will ever be this good again

I actually think this is his best song he’s ever recorded

If this had been completed and included on Blonde on Blonde, it would have been the greatest rock album ever for the next 500 years.

Bob Dylan your voice will be heard forever

The drumming on this track is orgasmic

One of his greatest songs and it's not even finished.

Absolutely my favourite "out take".. Wow the band is following Bob just hanging on by a golden thread. Fantastic

That classic Dylan sound. I could listen to it all day.

The band sounds so dynamic and quick on its feet on this recording. It goes without saying that the songwriting is great. Could have been of Dylan's best if he'd have finished it.

The best

The pawnbroker roared Also, so, so did the landlord The scene was so crazy, wasn't it? Both were so glad To watch me destroy what I had Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn't it? Why didn't you just leave me if you didn't want to stay? Why'd you have to treat me so bad? Did it have to be that way? Now you stand here expectin' me to remember somethin' you forgot to say Yes, and you, I see you're still with her, well That's fine 'cause she's comin' on so strange, can't you tell? Somebody had better explain She's got her iron chain I'd do it, but I, I just can't remember how You talk to her She's your lover now. I already assumed That we're in the felony room But I ain't a judge, you don't have to be nice to me But please tell that To your friend in the cowboy hat You know he keeps on sayin' ev'rythin' twice to me You know I was straight with you You know I've never tried to change you in any way You know if you didn't want to be with me That you could . . . didn't have to stay. Now you stand here sayin' you forgive and forget. Honey, what can I say? Yes, you, you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can't you reach? I see you kiss her on the cheek ev'rytime she gives a speech With her picture books of the pyramid And her postcards of Billy the Kid (Why must everybody bow?) You better talk to her 'bout it You're her lover now. Oh, ev'rybody that cares Is goin' up the castle stairs But I'm not up in your castle, honey It's true, I just can't recall San Francisco at all I can't even remember El Paso, uh, honey You never had to be faithful I didn't want you to grieve Oh, why was it so hard for you If you didn't want to be with me, just to leave? Now you stand here while your finger's goin' up my sleeve An' you, just what do you do anyway? Ain't there nothin' you can say? She'll be standin' on the bar soon With a fish head an' a harpoon An' a fake beard plastered on her brow You'd better do somethin' quick She's your lover now.

I first heard this song on KSFR (Santa Fe, NM) a month or so ago. It is at the top of my personal playlist now.

At last 👏

Only one Dylan, now and forever ,💪💯🎼🎼

Bob Neuwirth was a friend of mine. I miss him dearly. He was wonderful company, a fine songwriter, a talented painter, and a good soul.

Bob Dylan =GOAT

That he didn't finish and release It tells you all you need to know.

Bob the genius.❤

Amazing Mr Dylan

Bob, you are giving to us your all a life artistic work. God bless you.

This song is amazing thanks Bob.

Such a shame that he didn’t get round to finishing this one. Maybe he didn’t know how to because it just kept going and going, building and building. Man, that was phrenetic! I can see bits of different songs, or the same kind of sarcasm from different songs from Blonde on Blonde and other 1966 songs in there; bits of Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat, a bit of Can You Please Crawl out your Window and a bit of Fourth Time Around and perhaps maybe more. But it was a long album with one really song already on it in Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, so I suppose he had to finish somewhere eventually.

A truly magnificent song

Great stuff

Lyrics: The pawnbroker roared Also, so, so did the landlord The scene was so crazy, wasn’t it? Both were so glad To watch me destroy what I had Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn’t it? Why didn’t you just leave me if you didn’t want to stay? Why’d you have to treat me so bad? Did it have to be that way? Now you stand here expectin’ me to remember something’ you forgot to say Yes, and you, I see you’re still with her, well That’s fine ’cause she’s comin’ on so strange, can’t you tell? Somebody had better explain She’s got her iron chain I’d do it, but I, I just can’t remember how You talk to her She’s your lover now

Top song give more credit 2 this all time classic.

This is a gr8 song thanx Bob.

Yes yes yes

❤

🎶☮️🎶 thank you. This song is well to me. " You know he keeps on saying everything twice to me ... You just sit around and ask for ashtrays , can't you reach.... " Ah man. I needed all that smile laugh today. Thank you. Cptn. 🎶☮️🎶

Just shows just how great drummer Levon was, this is magnificent

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Everyone's calling this a lost classic... hardly lost, it's absolutely sweet marie!

sounds reminiscent of Where Are Tonight Sweet Marie.

He changed this song to SOONER OR LATER ONE OF US MUST KNOW. This was recorded in December of 1965 in New York. Sooner or later was recorded in Nashville in February 1966.

Nach sechs Minuten geht dem Trommler die Puste aus und der Liedermacher ist am Ende seines Lateins.

هذا اعظم شيء بالحياة

Cálido, cerca de One of Us Must Know

It doesn't get any more Dylan then this song also sooner or later one of us must know

is there a bootleg with the song "to fall in love with you" ?

Roarshach’s journal

You say you forgive me, but you don't want to be with me, Montserrat..

This is possibly a heresy, but I think the breakdown halfway through the last verse is somehow the only thing that could happen. The previous verses each build to their own point of extreme tension and are then partially resolved at the end of the verse. The 4th verse starts with even more tension building as it progresses. Everything up to this point has registered 10 on the genius scale, the band "hanging on by a golden thread" as Timothy Ryan's comment has it, but the remaining lyrics (as we have them in the 'rehearsal'version of the song) just do not, in my opinion, quite match the quality of what has gone before. Possibly Dylan was trying to re-work them as he sang - something only he could do! - and found the right words just would not come at the moment they were required. So he stopped. And then abandoned the song as he had done the best he could with it. What we have remains one of his masterpieces.

Lo

This song is about HIS best friend and Musician (Bob Neuwirth) and Edie Sedgwick. And HE loved them both. And that's WHY he is so bitter and twisted. Which is odd, since HE left her.....and then had a lifetime of regrets ever afterwards. So basically that's why he couldn't finish this one because HE was being SO spiteful and cruel towards BOTH of them in song and on typewriter. Just listen to that vicious spiteful BOY moaning on and on and on and on.

Did this urchin of a song grow up to be "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" ?

I love these studio out takes!!