The Never Ending Pool

Well it's way past midnight and there are people all around
Some on their way up, some on their way down

I'm breathing hard, standing at the gate
But I don't know how much longer I can wait

I'm doomed to love you, I've been rolling through stormy weather
I'm thinking of you and all the places we could roam together

It's mighty funny; the end of time has just begun
Oh, honey, after all these years you're still the one
While I'm strolling through the lonely graveyard of my mind
I left my life with you somewhere back there along the line
I thought somehow that I would be spared this fate
But I don't know how much longer I can wait.

Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal

Well my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain

Well, I've been to London and I've been to gay Paree
I've followed the river and I got to the sea
I've been down on the bottom of a world full of lies
I ain't looking for nothing in anyone's eyes
Sometimes my burden seems more than I can bear
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

I was born here and I'll die here against my will
I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still

Well it's way past midnight and there are people all around
Some on their way up, some on their way down
The air burns and I'm trying to think straight

I'm strolling through the lonely graveyard of my mind
I left my life with you somewhere back there along the line
I thought somehow that I would be spared this fate

Every day your memory grows dimmer
It doesn't haunt me like it did before

People on the platforms
Waiting for the trains
I can hear their hearts a-beatin'
Like pendulums swinging on chains
When you think that you lost everything
You find out you can always lose a little more
I'm just going down the road feeling bad
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door

I'm going down the river
Down to New Orleans
They tell me everything is gonna be all right
But I don't know what "all right" even means

Gonna sleep down in the parlor
And relive my dreams
I'll close my eyes and I wonder
If everything is as hollow as it seems

my favorite dylan qoute is " I'll say this, I don't give a damn about your dreams " from the song thunder on the mountain i think u could fit it in their nicely

kasper wrote:

QUOTE:
I haven't got the grade you wanted, you might consider

"And don't criticize what you can't understand"

How about "You've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks"

H.

"It's my duty to bring you down to the field where the flowers bloom" -tough mama lyrics



As Greil Marcus suggests, perhaps the top was, “A sound that you could leave behind, to mark your presence on the earth, something that would circulate in the ether of lost radio signals, somehow received by generations to come.”

Wow, thanks for the response... let's see..

Day of the Locusts: good to know the story of it, but would rather fit when actually getting a degree, too early yet.
@ up to you: I can't steal your signature
"And don't criticize what you can't understand": Good one , but I don't want to insult my reviewers
" I'll say this, I don't give a damn about your dreams ": Nice, but somehow the same here
@ jackobob: Wow, I would love to hear that text sung in that form. Unfortunately, I haven't found a paragraph where I thought: This is it.
"You've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks": Hm...
"It's my duty to bring you down to the field where the flowers bloom": Like it, but maybe not that close to the object

To say it in a U2 quote: I still haven't found what I'm looking for. Sorry.

I've been deliberating over the same problem. I am writing up my physics PhD and wanted to start off with a Dylan quote. I couldn't find an appropriate lyric so I started looking at his other writings, and eventually found this from a poem that was used on the "Joan Baez In Concert, Part II" album (it's also in Writings & Drawings, where I read it):


"The only beauty's in the cracks an' curbs
Clothed in robes a dust an' grime"


For me it sums up one of the things I love about particle physics (and I'm sure it's true of other disciplines): there is genuine beauty in the ideas and mechanisms, but sometimes you have to scratch below the surface of the often less-than-beautiful visible reality.

I always knew Bob had a line about everything! (Although possibly he wasn't originally thinking of high-energy gluon scattering.)

"the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be."
-- Bob Dylan, CHRONICLES: VOLUME ONE

Dylan: ”The more you act, the further you get away from the truth.”

The gravel road is bumpy,
It's a hard road to ride,
But there's a clearer road a-waitin'
With the cinders on the side.

Trails of troubles,
Roads of battles,
Paths of victory,
We shall walk.
-From the song Paths of Victory

@ Prince G.: That quote is really perfect in your context. Unfortunately, not that much in mine.
@ Sadie: Thanks for your efforts. But the quotes don't feel right for me.

Meanwhile, I've gone through: Dylan's Eleven Outlined Epitaphs
And one section could find my consideration. What do you think?

QUOTE:

So at last at least
the sky for me
is a pleasant gray
meanin' rain
or meanin' snow
constantly meanin' change
but a change forewarned
either t'the clearin' of the clouds
or t'the pourin' of the storms
an'after it's desire
returnin'
returnin' with me underneath
returnin' with it
never fearful
finally faithful
it will guide me well
across all bridges
inside all tunnels
never failin'...

As great as you are a man, you'll never be greater than yourself
High Water (for Charley Patton)

Senor, senor, do you know where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?
Seems like I been down this way before.
Is there any truth in that, senor?
Senor

would you consider

Natures voice makes my heart rejoice.

Otherwise, upfront and personal:

It Ain't Me, Babe

As great as you are a man, you'll never be greater than yourself: Not bad, but it's not IT.
Senor: Not that fitting..

Natures voice makes my heart rejoice: If the thesis had anything to do with nature, it would be nice, but it has not (directly)..
It Ain't Me, Babe: No, that quote ain't me

me and everyone else, I have no idea if its
about research or money?

how is ( a title ):

CAN'T WAIT

http://www.sciencefriday.com/newsbriefs/read/185

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in england we'd call this geezer a wind up merchant. no one knows what he wants, he couldn't be more vague, his initial post tells us absolutely nothing and other poolers have probably spent abvout fifty man hours searching for his gem. i'm giving up.

that initial post in full


CompleteUnknown wrote:

QUOTE:
Do you have suggestions for a Dylan quote (from a song, interview, book, etc.) that could suffice in a diploma thesis [science] (before the main part begins)?

Don't know if I use a Dylan quote but would be nice to see the options.

PS: If you know non-Dylan quotes that come to your mind for said purpose, I'd appreciate them as well.

i might change my mind if you give us a brief synopsis of said thesis (science).