Nobody should doubt the brilliance of Bob Dylan as a lyricist. He's up there with Clive James - and anybody who knows OG's predilections will know that this is praise indeed.
I was reminded of this when Spotify (as it does - these algorithms are clever you must admit) pointed me in the direction of the Byrds. Their version of Dylan's My Back Pages is, whisper this only, better than Dylan's own version but it is the lyric that makes it:
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
That Nobel Prize was well-deserved.
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