Bye and Bye

About Bye and Bye

"Bye and Bye" is a song written by Bob Dylan, released in 2001 as the fourth track on his album Love and Theft. Musically, "Bye and Bye" is what Oliver Trager calls an "easygoing, lilting ballad...something one would expect from Leon Redbone or, from an earlier era, Bing Crosby. Some Dylanists have traced the musical source for 'Bye and Bye' to 'Having Myself a Time,' a song popularized by Billie Holiday and written by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger". Lyrically, however, "Bye and Bye" appears to have darker concerns. According to Trager again: ["Bye and Bye"] slowly gives way to the sentiments of a scary stalker. As Richard Harrington wrote in his September 16, 2001, Washington Post review of Love and Theft: In "Bye and Bye," Dylan sings "The future for me is already past / You were my first love, you will be my last." Take him literally and it's about obsessional desire for a particular woman. But it's also about American roots music and Dylan's abiding appreciation for it, and inspiration from it, over the course of half a century. Dylan first performed the song live in October 2002. more »

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Bye and bye
I’m breathin’ a lover’s sigh
Well, I’m sittin’ on my watch so I can be on time
I’m singin’ love’s praises with sugar-coated rhyme
Bye and bye
On you I’m casting my eye

I’m paintin’ the town
Swinging my partner around
Well, I know who I can depend on
I know who to trust
I’m watchin’ the roads, I’m studying the dust
I’m paintin’ the town
Making my last go-round

Well, I’m scufflin’ and I’m shufflin’
And I’m walkin’ on briars
I’m not even acquainted with my
Own desires

I’m rollin’ slow
I’m doing all I know
I’m tellin’ myself
I found true happiness
That I’ve still got a dream that hasn’t been repossessed
I’m rollin’ slow, goin’ where the wild roses grow

Well the future
For me is already a thing of the past
You were my first love
And you will be my last

Papa gone mad, mamma, she’s feeling sad
Mamma, she’s feeling sad
Well, I’m gonna baptize you in fire so you can sin no more
I’m gonna establish my rule through civil war
Gonna make you see just how loyal and true a man can be

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan ( /ˈdɪlən/; born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in … more »

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