Pay in Blood is the second song to appear here from Bob Dylan’s 2012 album Tempest after my previous entry Long and Wasted Years. I always loved this song as I do the whole first half of the Tempest album. Like…
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Bob Dylan’s Pay in Blood – A Wise Ol’ Man’s ‘Masters of War’
Dylan is using his voice in Pay in Blood to project a dialogue between four distinct protagonists in this protest song. The first half entails a fierce exchange between ‘slave’ and ‘slaveowner’ but then the song transfigures into a comparably…
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