Album Track Review

     I will be reviewing the song I shall be Released by Bob Dylan. 

     The first couple chords to open the song are infamous to the Bob Dylan style; authentic acoustics that personally make me smile.  It opens it up to be a very soothing, toe-tappin tune.  It starts with simple plucking, then turns elaborate; makes me wish I took up the guitar.
     The harmonica gives the piece soul; there are wonderful interludes that involve the instrument throughout. I almost feel like I should be at a house in the country, under the starlit summer sky, on the front porch listening to an old friend play his guitar for me.  This song instantly gives me a comfortable feeling of a friend's embrace.
     'Anyday now, oh anyday now I shall be released'
     Dylan sings about his shining life and his encounters with others.  He references 'his light come shining from the west down to the east'...aka death but in a gospel-y, not too depressing way.  He sings of being released from this hell that we live in, to put it in more dramatic terms.  But he wrote this song when he went through a period of personal salvation; it was not meant to be any type of protest piece, even though the madia pegged it as so.  He lost fan base because of this media buzz, but regardless it is a moving song.
     The song is pretty simple and short in length but deep in meaning.  He's a classic in my book, and everyone should light a candle in their room and listen to an album or two of his...then we will find our callings in life. Hahah what a hippie, but that was an Almost Famous reference for ya.

They say ev’rything can be replaced
Yet ev’ry distance is not near
So I remember ev’ry face
Of ev’ry man who put me here
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
They say ev’ry man needs protection
They say ev’ry man must fall
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
Standing next to me in this lonely crowd
Is a man who swears he’s not to blame
All day long I hear him shout so loud
Crying out that he was framed
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released