makes you wanna stop and read a book

What's the matter with me
I don't have much to say
Daylight sneakin' through the window
And I'm still in this all-night café
Walkin' to and fro beneath the moon
Out to where the trucks are rollin' slow
To sit down on this bank of sand
And watch the river flow

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"Watching The River Flow," a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan in 1971, seemed to me to be about the '60s -- and being tired, needing a break from it all.  Needing a break.

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Wish I was back in the city
Instead of this old bank of sand
With the sun beating down over the chimney tops
And the one I love so close at hand
If I had wings and I could fly
I know where I would go
But right now I'll just sit here so contentedly
And watch the river flow

People disagreeing on all just about everything, yeah
Makes you stop and all wonder why
Why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street
Who just couldn't help but cry
Oh, this ol' river keeps on rollin' though
No matter what gets in the way
and which way the wind does blow
And as long as it does I'll just sit here
and watch the river flow

People disagreeing everywhere you look
Makes you wanna stop and read a book
Why only yesterday I saw
somebody on the street
That was -- really shook
But this ol' river keeps on rollin', though
No matter what gets in the
way and which way the wind does blow
And as long as it does I'll just sit here
And watch the river flow

Watch the river flow
Watchin' the river flow
Watchin' the river flow
but I'll sit down on this bank of sand
And watch the river flow

[copyright 1971 by Big Sky Music; renewed 1999 by Big Sky Music]

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Wikipedia, the online free encyclopedia, quotes a contemporary critic calling the song "an energetic, funky-gospel rocker"...and they include comments from critics (who -- I'm thinking -- might possibly be from different planets...)
one said, "Dylan is exploring his myth of retirement and withdrawal and the problem of retaining his privacy while making public art"
another is quoted as saying the song is "tarred with a realism that qualifies and complicates the lure of the lazy" (WHAT??)
another critic said the song was about Bob Dylan himself being "restless" --
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Those guys are crazy.

That song is about the Sixties.

~~~~~~~~~ (I do not find a good version of this song on You Tube, but the song -- "track" -- can be bought for a dollar on Dylan's website.  [How does that work, I wonder?  Do they magically transmit the song onto a player of some kind, or can they now inject it directly into the customer's ears and brain?...]) ~~~~~~~

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