Night after night, day after day
 They strip your useless hopes away
 The more I take, the more I give
 The more I die, the more I live
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Song: “Pay in Blood”
Album: Tempest
First played: 2012-11-13
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/pay-blood/
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 And someday if God’s in heaven overlookin’ His preserve
 I know the men that shot him down will get what they deserve
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Song: “Joey”
Album: Desire
First played: 1987-07-04
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/joey/
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 On the back of the fish truck that loads
 While my conscience explodes
 The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
 And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain
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Song: “Visions of Johanna”
Album: Blonde on Blonde
First played: 1966-02-05
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/visions-johanna/
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 Some of them died in the battle
 Some of them survived as well
 And I can tell you one thing
 Nobody can sing the blues
 Like Blind Willie McTell
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Song: “Blind Willie McTell”
Album: The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991
First played: 1997-08-05
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/blind-willie-mctell/
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 And picking up Angel who
 Just arrived here from the coast
 Who looked so fine at first
 But left looking just like a ghost
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Song: “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
First played: 1965-08-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/just-tom-thumbs-blues/
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 Them charcoal gypsy maidens
 Can strut their feathers well
 And I can tell you one thing
 Nobody can sing the blues
 Like Blind Willie McTell
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Song: “Blind Willie McTell”
Album: The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991
First played: 1997-08-05
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/blind-willie-mctell/
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 Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble
 Ancient footprints are everywhere
 You can almost think that you’re seein’ double
 On a cold, dark night on the Spanish Stairs
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Song: “When I Paint My Masterpiece”
Album: Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume II’
First played: 1975-10-30
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-i-paint-my-masterpiece/
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 The air is thick and heavy
 All along the levee
 Where the geese into the countryside have flown
 Meet me in the moonlight alone
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Song: “Moonlight”
Album: Love and Theft
First played: 2001-10-06
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/moonlight/
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 When the rain is blowing in your face
 And the whole world is on your case
 I could offer you a warm embrace
 To make you feel my love
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Song: “Make You Feel My Love”
Album: Time out of Mind
First played: 1997-11-02
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/make-you-feel-my-love/
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