हुआ नहीं है, बस होने ही को है अन्धेरा

बॉब डिलन के तीसवें अल्बम 'टाइम आउट ऑफ़ माइन्ड' (१९९७) का गीत 'नॉट डार्क येट' अपने गहरे राजनैतिक अर्थों की वजह से मुझे हमेशा बहुत आकर्षित करता रहा है और डराता भी रहा है. एक -दो दिन पहले ही पंकज श्रीवास्तव और अनिल यादव ने एक ही समय में सुन्न कर देने और थर्रा देने वाली दो पोस्ट्स गंगा और भारतीय राजनीति को लेकर लगाई हैं. दोनों को एकाधिक बार पढ़कर मैं यह गाना लगाने से अपने को रोक नहीं पा रहा हूं.

	Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet
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Shadows are falling and I've been here all day
It's too hot to sleep and time is running away
Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
There's not even room enough to be anywhere
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

Well my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain
She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
She put down in writing what was in her mind
I just don't see why I should even care
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

Well, I've been to London and I've been to gay Paree
I've followed the river and I got to the sea
I've been down on the bottom of a world full of lies
I ain't looking for nothing in anyone's eyes
Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

I was born here and I'll die here against my will
I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.