SuAN: I'm even less of a songwriter than I am a poet, which is why there's only three verses, but the idea of Bob Dylan writing a song about his experiences during "Hallowicked" was too much to ignore. If you want a tune to go with the lyrics, play "Restless Farewell" while you read it. The next chapter will be a regular story one, promise.
The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob Dylan - Originally Released January 1964
Side Two - Track 5: Samhain
Editors Note: Based loosely on the Scottish folk song "The Parting Glass", "Samhain" was written shortly after October 31st, 1963, and is allegedly a remade version of an unfinished song called "Restless Farewell", which was heavily rewritten by Mr. Dylan in the aftermath of the notorious "Nightmare In Greenwich Village" incident. Like several of his contemporaries, Mr. Dylan used the trauma he experienced during this terrible part of American history as basis for his creative pursuits, which eventually became part of one of the most popular albums of all time. While critical views of the song itself has remained mixed ever since it's release, it's considered a valuable and unique insight into a lost era of American culture.
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Of All Things I've Tried to Forget
And All the Things I've Done
And Though I Tried To Pretend
'Twas For No One But Me
But Sins Are Nev'r Forgot
We Just Wish They Were
And All Those Ghosts
I've Tried to Leave Behind
They're All here Tonight
And There's No Escape, On Hallows Eve
[HARMONICA MUSIC}
O' Every Fear I Ever Had
None of Them Had Ever Left
Ad Every Fear I Tried to Forget
They All Just Waited, All This Time
Nothing's Ever Forgot
And Nothing's Ever Forgiven
Because The Things We Try, To Leave Behind
They Still Remember Us
And In the Shadows of a Twilit World
Your Sins Still Wait For You
[HARMONICA MUSIC]
'Twas A Bleak October Eve
When All the Things I'd Feared
Things I'd Hoped Dead and Buried
Things That Shouldn't Be, Things I'd Never Dreamed
Somehow They Were Real
Things I've Tried To Forget, Things I'd Hid
But Then, Somehow, There was Light
And as the Nighmares Fled
We saw The Dawn226