![]() | Feel My Love Released: Feb 2017 |
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A Simple Twist of Fate | ![]() | |||||
![]() They sat together in the park As the evening sky grew dark She looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to his bones ’Twas then he felt alone and wished that he’d gone straight And watched out for a simple twist of fate They walked along by the old canal A saxophone someplace softly played He woke up, she was gone He hears the ticking of the clocks People tell me it’s a crime Return ![]() | ||||||
I Want You | ![]() | |||||
![]() The guilty undertaker sighs The lonesome organ grinder cries The silver saxophones say I should refuse you The cracked bells and washed-out horns Blow into my face with scorn But it’s not that way I wasn’t born to lose you I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you The drunken politician leaps Upon the street where mothers weep And the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you And I wait for them to interrupt Me drinkin’ from my broken cup And ask me to Open up the gate for you I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you How all my fathers, they’ve gone down True love they’ve been without it But all their daughters put me down ’Cause I don’t think about it Well, I return to the Queen of Spades And talk with my chambermaid She knows that I’m not afraid to look at her She is good to me And there’s nothing she doesn’t see She knows where I’d like to be But it doesn’t matter I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you Now your dancing child with his Chinese suit He spoke to me, I took his flute No, I wasn’t very cute to him, was I? But I did it, though, because he lied Because he took you for a ride And because time was on his side And because I . . . I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you Copyright © 1966 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1994 by Dwarf Music Return ![]() | ||||||
Make You Feel My Love ... | ![]() | |||||
![]() 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 When the evening shadows and the stars appear And there is no one there to dry your tears I could hold you for a million years To make you feel my love I know you haven’t made your mind up yet But I would never do you wrong I’ve known it from the moment that we met No doubt in my mind where you belong I’d go hungry, I’d go black and blue I’d go crawling down the avenue There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do To make you feel my love The storms are raging on the rollin’ sea And on the highway of regret The winds of change are blowing wild and free You ain’t seen nothing like me yet I could make you happy, make your dreams come true Nothing that I wouldn’t do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love Copyright © 1997 by Special Rider Music Return ![]() | ||||||
Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat) | ![]() | |||||
![]() There’s a long-distance train rolling through the rain Tears on the letter I write There’s a woman I long to touch and I miss her so much But she’s drifting like a satellite There’s a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze Laughter down on Elizabeth Street And a lonesome bell tollin’ in that valley of stone Where she bathed in a stream of pure heat Her father would emphasize you got to be more than streetwise But he practiced what he preached from the heart A full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted to me The time and the place that the trouble would start There’s a babe in the arms of a woman in a rage And a longtime golden-haired stripper onstage And she winds back the clock and she turns back the page Of a book that no one can write Oh, where are you tonight? The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure To live it you have to explode In that last hour of need, we entirely agreed Sacrifice was the code of the road I left town at dawn, with Marcel and St. John Strong men belittled by doubt I couldn’t tell her what my private thoughts were But she had some way of finding them out He took dead-center aim but he missed just the same She was waiting, putting flowers on the shelf She could feel my despair as I climbed up her hair And discovered her invisible self There’s a lion in the road, there’s a demon escaped There’s a million dreams gone, there’s a landscape being raped As her beauty fades and I watch her undrape I won’t but then again, maybe I might Oh, if I could just find you tonight I fought with my twin, that enemy within ’Til both of us fell by the way Horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees While the law looks the other way Your partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimes The guy you were lovin’ couldn’t stay clean It felt outa place, my foot in his face But he should-a stayed where his money was green I bit into the root of forbidden fruit With the juice running down my leg Then I dealt with your boss, who’d never known about loss And who always was too proud to beg There’s a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this room And a pathway that leads up to the stars If you don’t believe there’s a price for this sweet paradise Just remind me to show you the scars There’s a new day at dawn and I’ve finally arrived If I’m there in the morning, baby, you’ll know I’ve survived I can’t believe it, I can’t believe I’m alive But without you it doesn’t seem right Oh, where are you tonight? Copyright © 1978 by Special Rider Music Return ![]() | ||||||
Girl From The North Country | ![]() | |||||
![]() Well, if you’re travelling in the north country fair Where the winds hit heavy on the border line Remember me to one who lives there For she once was a true love of mine. Well if you go when the snow-flakes storm Please see if her hair hangs long I’m a’wondering if she remembers me at all So if you’re travelling in the north country fair | ||||||
Hazel | ![]() | |||||
![]() Hazel, dirty-blonde hair I wouldn’t be ashamed to be seen with you anywhere You got something I want plenty of Ooh, a little touch of your love Hazel, stardust in your eye You’re goin’ somewhere and so am I I’d give you the sky high above Ooh, for a little touch of your love Oh no, I don’t need any reminder To know how much I really care But it’s just making me blinder and blinder Because I’m up on a hill and still you’re not there Hazel, you called and I came Now don’t make me play this waiting game You’ve got something I want plenty of Ooh, a little touch of your love Copyright © 1973 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2001 by Ram’s Horn Music Return ![]() | ||||||
Tomorrow is a Long Time | ![]() | |||||
![]() If today was not an endless highway If tonight was not a crooked trail If tomorrow wasn’t such a long time Then lonesome would mean nothing to me at all And only if my own true love was waitin’ And if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’ Only if she was lyin’ by me Then I’d lie in my bed once again I can’t see my reflection in the water I can’t speak the sounds that show no pain I can’t hear the echo of my footsteps Or remember the sound of my own name And only if my own true love was waitin’ And if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’ Only if she was lyin’ by me Then I’d lie in my bed once again There’s beauty in that silver, singin’ river There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can touch the beauty That I remember in my true love’s eyes And only if my own true love was waitin’ And if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’ Only if she was lyin’ by me Then I’d lie in my bed once again Copyright © 1963 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music Return ![]() | ||||||
Beyond the Horizon | ![]() | |||||
![]() Beyond the horizon, behind the sun At the end of the rainbow, life has only begun In the long hours of twilight ’neath the stardust above Beyond the horizon, it is easy to love I’m touched with desire What don’t I do? Through flame and through fire I’ll build my world around you Beyond the horizon, in the Springtime or Fall Love waits forever for one and for all Beyond the horizon across the divide ’Round about midnight, we’ll be on the same side Down in the valley the water runs cold Beyond the horizon someone prayed for your soul My wretched heart’s pounding I felt an angel’s kiss My memories are drowning In mortal bliss Beyond the horizon, at the end of the game Every step that you take, I’m walking the same Beyond the horizon the night winds blow The theme of a melody from many moons ago The bells of St. Mary, how sweetly they chime Beyond the horizon I found you just in time It’s dark and it’s dreary I ponder in vain I’m weakened, I’m weary My repentance is plain Beyond the horizon o’er the treacherous sea I still can’t believe that you’ve set aside your love for me Beyond the horizon, ’neath crimson skies In the soft light of morning I’ll follow you with my eyes Through countries and kingdoms and temples of stone Beyond the horizon right down to the bone It’s the right time of the season Someone there always cared There’s always a reason Why someone’s life has been spared Beyond the horizon the sky is so blue I’ve got more than a lifetime to live lovin’ you Copyright © 2006 by Special Rider Music Return ![]() | ||||||
To Ramona | ![]() | |||||
![]() Ramona come closer shut softly your watery eyes. The pangs of your sadness will pass as your senses will rise. The flowers of the city though breathlike, get deathlike sometimes. But ain’t no use in tryin’ to deal with the dyin’ Though I cannot explain that in lines. Your cracked country lips I still wish to kiss, as to be by the strength of your skin. I can see that your head has been twisted and fed with worthless foam from the mouth. I’ve heard you say many times that you’re better than no one and no one is better than you. I’d forever talk to you but soon my words would turn into a meaningless ring. Copyright © 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1992 by Special Rider Music Return ![]() | ||||||
If You See Her, Say Hello | ![]() | |||||
![]() If you see her, say hello, she might be in Tangier She left here last early spring, is livin’ there, I hear Say for me that I’m all right though things get kind of slow She might think that I’ve forgotten her, don’t tell her it isn’t so. We had a falling-out, like lovers often will And to think of how she left that night, it still brings me a chill And though our separation, it pierced me to the heart She still lives inside of me, we’ve never been apart. If you get close to her, kiss her once for me I see a lot of people as I make the rounds Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past Copyright © 1974 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2002 by Ram’s Horn Music Return ![]() | ||||||
One Too Many Mornings ... | ![]() | |||||
![]() Down the street the dogs are barking and the day is getting dark. As the night comes in a-fallin’, the dogs’ll lose their bark. An’ the silent night will shatter from the sounds inside my mind, For I’m one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind. From the crossroads of my doorstep, my eyes they start to fade, As I turn my head back to the room, where my love and I have laid. An’ I gaze back to the street, the sidewalk and the sign, And I’m one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind. It’s a restless hungry feeling that don’t mean no one no good, When ev’rything I’m a-sayin’ you can say it just as good. You’re right from your side, I’m right from mine. We’re both just one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind. Copyright © 1964, 1966 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1992, 1994 by Special Rider Music Return ![]() | ||||||
Love Minus Zero/No limit | ![]() | |||||
![]() My love she speaks like silence, Without ideals or violence, She doesn’t have to say she’s faithful, Yet she’s true, like ice, like fire. People carry roses, And make promises by the hours, My love she laughs like the flowers, Valentines can’t buy her. In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, Read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall. Some speak of the future, My love she speaks softly, She knows there’s no success like failure And that failure’s no success at all. The cloak and dagger dangles, Madams light the candles. In ceremonies of the horsemen, Even the pawn must hold a grudge. Statues made of match sticks, Crumble into one another, My love winks, she does not bother, She knows too much to argue or to judge. The bridge at midnight trembles, The country doctor rambles, Bankers’ nieces seek perfection, Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring. The wind howls like a hammer, The night blows cold and rainy, My love she’s like some raven At my window with a broken wing. Copyright © 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music Return ![]() | ||||||
Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright [Live] | ![]() | |||||
![]() It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don’t matter, anyhow An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don’t know by now When your rooster crows at the break of dawn Look out your window and I’ll be gone You’re the reason I’m trav’lin’ on Don’t think twice, it’s all right It ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe That light I never knowed An’ it ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe I’m on the dark side of the road Still I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say To try and make me change my mind and stay We never did too much talkin’ anyway So don’t think twice, it’s all right It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal Like you never did before It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal I can’t hear you any more I’m a-thinkin’ and a-wond’rin’ all the way down the road I once loved a woman, a child I’m told I give her my heart but she wanted my soul But don’t think twice, it’s all right I’m walkin’ down that long, lonesome road, babe Where I’m bound, I can’t tell But goodbye’s too good a word, gal So I’ll just say fare thee well I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind You could have done better but I don’t mind You just kinda wasted my precious time But don’t think twice, it’s all right Copyright © 1963 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music Return ![]() | ||||||
Corrina Corrina | ![]() | |||||
![]() Corrina, Corrina, Gal, where you been so long? Corrina, Corrina, Gal, where you been so long? I been worryin’ ’bout you, babe, Baby, please come home. I got a bird that whistles, Corrina, Corrina, Copyright © 1962, 1966 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1990, 1994 by Special Rider Music Return ![]() |
" Beautifully produced album ... pure joy. "   - Music-News.com
".. songs positively shimmer and shine ... " - Skope Magazine
"Respectful of the originals while offering his own take on these true-blue American classics, Michel Griffin’s “Feel my Love: Bob Dylan’s Finest Lovesongs” simply stuns." - Skope Magazine
"Michel’s voice - all velvet & smoke - brings new life to the familiar lyrics ... with such feeling it’ll give you goosebumps."- Music-News.com
"Griffin manages to capture Dylan’s spirit and personality, and more generally the feeling of the 1960s folk music scene, through his elegiac, romantic delivery and dexterous acoustic guitar picking."- The Big TakeOver
Bob Dylan was an early hero. I discovered him when I was 14 and just taking up the guitar. He has been with me ever since. I always felt a special kindred with his lovesongs, and was surprised to find that no-one appeared to have dedicated an album to them.
Recorded in the US and in France, this album was two years in the making.
So here it is - in my own gravelly voice, and with my own arrangements.
Enjoy!