Top100 - 100/ 19 I Want You (Bob Dylan 1966)

 

Bob Dylan - I  Want  you 

 

Même si les puristes et les spécialistes de Dylan seront d'accord pour affirmer que ce titre n'est pas l'une de ses plus grandes compositions 'I Want  you ' reste pour moi un incontournable car c'est a l'ecoute de 'single (paru sur 'blonde on blonde ' en 1966) que je suis entré en Dylanie

J'avais découvert le titre non pas  sur 'blonde on blonde ' le fantastique double  album (que je prendrais 'en pleine face ' plus tard ) mais sur un"  Bob Dylan 's greatest hits  vol 1 " (1967) un disque dont je ne sortirai jamais totalement indemne

le thème de la chanson ( l'amour impossible à obtenir , la volonté de pouvoir exprimer son amour sans détour, ) font de ce titre mélancolique l'une des plus belles chansons d'amour du répertoire de Dylan , alors  cette époque au sommet de son esprit créatif

La voix unique et nasillarde du zim ,le refrain entetant et accrocheur  qui ne vous lache plus , et voila comment  'I Want  you ' penetre l'inconscient collectif pour y laisser une trace indélébile

" I Want  you " sera reprise par Cher très peu de temps après la sortie de l'original (1966) puis par en 1968  The Hollies sur l'album  Hollies Sing Dylan (1968).

Plus proche de nous James Blunt  en proposera une version plutôt réussie  sur '  Listen to Bob Dylan: A Tribute (2005) On retiendra aussi la 'cover '  des surprenants canadiens de Rock Central Plaza 

 

Paroles

The guilty undertaker sighs,
The lonesome organ grinder cries,
The silver saxophones say I should refuse you.
The cracked bells and washed-out horns
Blow into my face with scorn,
But it's not that way,
I wasn't born to lose you.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad, 
Honey, I want you

The drunken politician leaps

Upon the street where mothers weep

And the saviors who are fast asleep

They wait for you.
And I wait for them to interrupt
Me drinkin' from my broken cup
And ask me to 
Open up the gate for you.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you

 

Now all my fathers, they've gone down
True love they've been without it.
But all their daughters put me down
'Cause I don't think about it

Well, I return to the Queen of Spades
And talk with my chambermaid.
She knows that I'm not afraid
To look at her.
She is good to me
And there's nothing she doesn't see.
She knows where I'd like to be
But it doesn't matter. 
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.

ow your dancing child with his Chinese suit,
He spoke to me, I took his flute.
No, I wasn't very cute to him,
Was I?
But I did it, though, because he lied
Because he took you for a ride
And because time was on his side
And because I . . . 
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.

 

 Rock central plaza - I want  you

 

 

james Blunt  -  I Want  you