Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle

Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer.

When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.