22. Tryin' To Get To Heaven with Steven Rings (What Did You Hear?)

In this episode, Henry joins Steven Rings, author of "What Did You Hear? The Music Of Bob Dylan," in his home studio to break down the music in the Time Out Of Mind masterpiece, "Tryin' To Get To Heaven."Listen to the album version, and when you hear us start talking about the "2000 version" found on both Fragments and Tell Tale Signs, listen here.Tryin' To Get To Heaven Written By Bob Dylan:The air is getting hotterThere’s a rumbling in the skiesI’ve been wading through the high muddy waterWith the heat rising in my eyesEvery day your memory grows dimmerIt doesn’t haunt me like it did beforeI’ve been walking through the middle of nowhereTrying to get to heaven before they close the doorWhen I was in MissouriThey would not let me beI had to leave there in a hurryI only saw what they let me seeYou broke a heart that loved youNow you can seal up the book and not write anymoreI’ve been walking that lonesome valleyTrying to get to heaven before they close the doorPeople on the platformsWaiting for the trainsI can hear their hearts a-beatin’Like pendulums swinging on chainsI tried to give you everythingThat your heart was longing forI’m just going down the road feeling badTrying to get to heaven before they close the doorI’m going down the riverDown to New OrleansThey tell me everything is gonna be all rightBut I don’t know what “all right” even meansI was riding in a buggy with Miss Mary-JaneMiss Mary-Jane got a house in BaltimoreI been all around the world, boysNow I’m trying to get to heaven before they close the doorGonna sleep down in the parlorAnd relive my dreamsI’ll close my eyes and I wonderIf everything is as hollow as it seemsWhen you think that you’ve lost everythingYou find out you can always lose a little moreI been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar downNow I’m trying to get to heaven before they close the doorCopyright © 1997 by Special Rider Music Follow us on Instagram @songsofbob,If you would like to support hosting my podcasts, please check out my Patreon where for $5 I will give you a shout out on the podcast of your choice. Thank you to, Rob Kelly, Roberta Rakove, Matt Simonson, and Christopher Vanni. For $10, in addition to the shout-out I'll send you a surprise piece of Bob Dylan merch! Thank you to Kaitie Cerovec who is already enjoying her merch! I have a merch shop! Check out all sorts of fun Bob Dylan (and more) items! Thank you to Mark Godfrey, & Linda Maultsby over on Substack.Email us at [email protected]: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Substack.