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I Shall Be Released (Live at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan - February/March 1978)

Bob Dylan
Track 9 on Bob Dylan At Budokan (Live) 

Producer

Don DeVito
Apr. 23, 19791 viewer

I Shall Be Released (Live at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan - February/March 1978) Lyrics

They say ev'rything can be replaced
Yet ev’ry distance is not near
So I remember ev'ry face
Of ev'ry man who put me here
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released

They say ev’ry man needs protection
They say ev'ry man must fall
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released

Standing next to me in this lonely crowd
Is a man who swears he's not to blame
All day long I hear him shout so loud
Crying out that he was framed
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released

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Recorded At
Nippon Budokan (2-3 Kitanomarukoen, Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan)
Released on
April 23, 1979
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