The new song Bob Dylan wrote for the movie "North Country" is an amazing country-folk ballad that has been stuck in my head since the day I first heard a few months ago. The song, "Tell Ol' Bill," is full of amazing, haunting imagery telling the tale of pain and the scarred resignation that comes with the acceptance of a failed relationship and lost dreams. It is sung from the woman's point of view and ends with:
Tell ol' Bill when he comes home
Anything is worth a try
Tell him that I'm not alone
That the hour has come to do or die.
All the world I would defy
Let me make it plain as day
I look at you now and I sigh
How could it be any other way?
This has to be one of the best written songs of 2005 and one of Dylan's 10 best ever...seriously.
