Tangled Up in Blue - wikipedia Tangled Up in Blue For the 2011 politics book, see Tangled Up in Blue ( book ). `` Tangled Up in Blue '' Single by Bob Dylan from the album Blood on the Tracks B - side `` If You See Her, Say Hello '' Released January 1975 Recorded December 30, 1974 at Sound 80 in Minneapolis, Minnesota Genre Folk rock Length 5 : 42 Label Columbia Songwriter ( s ) Bob Dylan Producer ( s ) Bob Dylan Bob Dylan singles chronology `` All Along the Watchtower '' ( 1974 ) `` Tangled Up in Blue '' ( 1975 ) `` Hurricane '' ( 1975 ) `` All Along the Watchtower '' ( 1974 ) `` Tangled Up in Blue '' ( 1975 ) `` Hurricane '' ( 1975 ) Blood on the Tracks track listing 10 tracks Side one `` Tangled Up in Blue '' `` Simple Twist of Fate '' `` You 're a Big Girl Now '' `` Idiot Wind '' `` You 're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go '' Side two `` Meet Me in the Morning '' `` Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts '' `` If You See Her, Say Hello '' `` Shelter from the Storm '' `` Buckets of Rain '' Audio sample file help Music video `` Tangled Up in Blue '' ( live ) on YouTube `` Tangled Up in Blue '' is a song by Bob Dylan. It appeared on his album Blood on the Tracks in 1975. Released as a single, it reached # 31 on the Billboard Hot 100. Rolling Stone ranked it # 68 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The Telegraph has described the song as `` The most dazzling lyric ever written, an abstract narrative of relationships told in an amorphous blend of first and third person, rolling past, present and future together, spilling out in tripping cadences and audacious internal rhymes, ripe with sharply turned images and observations and filled with a painfully desperate longing. '' `` Tangled Up in Blue '' is one of five songs on Blood on the Tracks that Dylan initially recorded in New York City in September 1974 and then re-recorded in Minneapolis in December that year ; the later recording became the album track and single. One of the September 1974 outtakes was released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1 -- 3 ( Rare & Unreleased ) 1961 -- 1991. According to novelist Ron Rosenbaum, Bob Dylan once told him that he 'd written `` Tangled up in Blue '', after spending a weekend immersed in Joni Mitchell 's 1971 album Blue. Contents 1 Lyrics 2 Covers and references 3 Footnotes 4 External links Lyrics `` Tangled Up in Blue '' is one of the clearest examples of Dylan 's attempts to write `` multi-dimensional '' songs which defied a fixed notion of time and space. Dylan was influenced by his recent study of painting and the Cubist school of artists, who sought to incorporate multiple perspectives within a single plane of view. As Neil McCormick remarked in 2003 : `` A truly extraordinary epic of the personal, an unreliable narrative carved out of shifting memories like a five - and - a-half - minute musical Proust. '' In a 1978 interview Dylan explained this style of songwriting : `` What 's different about it is that there 's a code in the lyrics, and there 's also no sense of time. There 's no respect for it. You 've got yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same room, and there 's very little you ca n't imagine not happening ''. The lyrics are at times opaque, but the song seems to be ( like most of the songs on the album ) the tale of a love that has, for the time being, ended, although not by choice ; the last verse begins : So now I 'm goin ' back again, I got to get to her somehow... and ends We always did feel the same, We just saw it from a different point of view, Tangled up in blue. Dylan continually re-worked the lyrics even after the album was released ; the version on his live album Real Live ( and throughout the ' 84 Europe tour ) has radically different lyrics. In the first studio version ( NYC sessions, September ' 74 ) and often in live performances he has sung some of the verses from a third - person perspective ( usually `` he was laying in bed, '' but sometimes even `` she was laying in bed '' ), as opposed to the first - person point of view in the Blood on the Tracks version. Dylan has said that the version recorded on the 1984 Real Live album is the best. Dylan has often stated that the song took `` ten years to live and two years to write ''. Covers and references The song has been covered by various artists, including Great White, Jerry Garcia, Dickey Betts and Great Southern, Mike McClure, The Byrds, Half Japanese, Robyn Hitchcock, the Indigo Girls, Kim Larsen, KT Tunstall, Ani Difranco, The String Cheese Incident, Jennifer Charles and The Whitlams. In the Hootie & the Blowfish song `` Only Wanna Be with You '', Darius Rucker sings : Yeah I 'm tangled up in blue / Only wan na be with you / You can call me your fool / Only wan na be with you. The reference extends a string of mentions of Bob Dylan in the song, beginning at the start of the second verse : Putting on a little Dylan... The song 's rhythm itself seems to be inspired by Dylan 's original track. Barb Jungr and Louis Durra have recorded jazz versions. The Belgian TV - host Bart Peeters, who is also a singer - songwriter, made a Dutch version of the song. The lyrics are modified by him, and as a result he tells a more personal story about how he met his wife. The Dutch title is `` Prachtig in het blauw '' ( ( looking ) beautiful in blue ). Texas Country artist Hayes Carll includes the lyrics `` You was openly frustrated / you said Dylan 's overrated / while singing Tangled Up In Blue '' in his 2011 song `` Another Like You ''. The song is a playable track on Rock Band 2, as the most difficult song in the vocal section, and the final song for the player to complete in the `` Impossible Vocal Challenge ''. Science fiction author Joan D. Vinge published Tangled Up in Blue in 2000 as the fourth book in her Hugo Award - winning `` Snow Queen '' series. A female artist named Sami quotes the lines, `` We 'll meet again someday on the avenue / tangled up in blue '' in Michael Corrigan 's book These Precious Hours. Former Dublin Gaelic Football player Dessie Farrell titled his autobiography Tangled Up in Blue. The song appears in 2012 film People like us. Footnotes Jump up ^ McCormick, Neil ( 18 November 2013 ). `` Bob Dylan : 30 greatest songs ''. Telegraph. Retrieved 2013 - 11 - 19. Jump up ^ Rosenbaum, Ron ( 2007 - 12 - 14 ). `` The Best Joni Mitchell Song Ever ''. Slate. ISSN 1091 - 2339. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 20. Jump up ^ `` The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan '', Nigel Williamson, ISBN 1 - 84353 - 139 - 9 Jump up ^ Interview with Jonathan Cott, Rolling Stone 11 / 16 / 78 Jump up ^ Toby Creswell ( 2007 ), `` Tangled Up in Blue '', 1001 Songs, p. 469 Jump up ^ Sanburn, Joel ( May 19, 2011 ). `` The 10 Best Bob Dylan Songs ''. Time. Retrieved July 1, 2014. Jump up ^ Tangled Up in Blue, Joan Vinge, TOR Books, 2000, ISBN 978 - 0 - 8125 - 7636 - 8 External links Lyrics America by Song : Tangled Up in Blue Bob Dylan Discography Awards Bibliography Songs written by Dylan Studio albums Bob Dylan The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan The Times They Are a-Changin ' Another Side of Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home Highway 61 Revisited Blonde on Blonde John Wesley Harding Nashville Skyline Self Portrait New Morning Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Dylan Planet Waves Blood on the Tracks The Basement Tapes Desire Street - Legal Slow Train Coming Saved Shot of Love Infidels Empire Burlesque Knocked Out Loaded Down in the Groove Oh Mercy Under the Red Sky Good as I Been to You World Gone Wrong Time Out of Mind Love and Theft Modern Times Together Through Life Christmas in the Heart Tempest Shadows in the Night Fallen Angels Triplicate Live albums Before the Flood Hard Rain Bob Dylan at Budokan Real Live Dylan & the Dead The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration MTV Unplugged Live 1961 -- 2000 : Thirty - Nine Years of Great Concert Performances Live at The Gaslight 1962 Live at Carnegie Hall 1963 In Concert -- Brandeis University 1963 The 1966 Live Recordings Compilations Bob Dylan 's Greatest Hits Bob Dylan 's Greatest Hits Vol. II Masterpieces Biograph Bob Dylan 's Greatest Hits Volume 3 The Best of Bob Dylan ( 1997 ) The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 2 The Essential Bob Dylan Bob Dylan : The Collection The Best of Bob Dylan ( 2005 ) Blues Dylan The Original Mono Recordings The 50th Anniversary Collection Bob Dylan : The Complete Album Collection Vol. One The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963 The 50th Anniversary Collection 1964 Bootlegs Great White Wonder List of Basement Tapes songs ( 1967, 1975 ) The Bootleg Series Volumes 1 -- 3 ( Rare & Unreleased ) 1961 -- 1991 Volume 4 : The Royal Albert Hall concert Vol. 5 : Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue Vol. 6 : Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall Vol. 7 : No Direction Home : The Soundtrack Vol. 8 : Tell Tale Signs : Rare and Unreleased 1989 -- 2006 Vol. 9 : The Witmark Demos : 1962 -- 1964 Vol. 10 : Another Self Portrait ( 1969 -- 1971 ) Vol. 11 : The Basement Tapes Complete Vol. 12 : The Cutting Edge 1965 -- 1966 Vol. 13 : Trouble No More 1979 -- 1981 Concert tours England Tour ( 1965 ) World Tour ( 1966 ) Tour with The Band ( 1974 ) Rolling Thunder Revue ( 1975 -- 1976 ) World Tour ( 1978 ) Gospel Tour ( 1979 -- 1980 ) World Tour ( 1981 ) European Tour ( 1984 ) True Confessions Tour ( 1986 ) Tour with the Grateful Dead ( 1987 ) Temples in Flames Tour ( 1987 ) Never Ending Tour 1988 1989 1990 1991 1993 2017 2018 Films Dont Look Back Eat the Document Renaldo and Clara Masked and Anonymous No Direction Home I 'm Not There 65 Revisited The Other Side of the Mirror : Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963 -- 1965 Trouble No More - A Musical Film Writings Tarantula Writings and Drawings Chronicles : Volume One Books about Dylan The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia Bob Dylan, Performing Artist Invisible Republic The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan Related The Band Electric Dylan controversy Theme Time Radio Hour Traveling Wilburys Artists who have covered Dylan songs Chimes of Freedom ( album ) The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams Lost on the River : The New Basement Tapes Suze Rotolo The Telegraph magazine Sara Dylan ( first wife ) Carolyn Dennis ( second wife ) Jesse Dylan ( son ) Jakob Dylan ( son ) Book Portal Bob Dylan singles discography 1962 `` Mixed - Up Confusion '' / `` Corrina, Corrina '' 1963 `` Blowin ' in the Wind '' / `` Do n't Think Twice, It 's All Right '' 1965 `` The Times They Are a-Changin ' '' / `` Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance '' `` Maggie 's Farm '' / `` On the Road Again '' `` Subterranean Homesick Blues '' / `` She Belongs to Me '' `` Like a Rolling Stone '' / `` Gates of Eden `` Positively 4th Street '' / `` From a Buick 6 '' `` Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window ? '' / `` Highway 61 Revisited '' 1966 `` One of Us Must Know ( Sooner or Later ) '' / `` Queen Jane Approximately '' `` Rainy Day Women ♯ 12 & 35 '' / `` Pledging My Time '' `` I Want You '' / `` Just Like Tom Thumb 's Blues '' ( live with The Hawks ) `` Just Like a Woman '' / `` Obviously 5 Believers '' 1967 `` Leopard - Skin Pill - Box Hat '' / `` Most Likely You Go Your Way And I 'll Go Mine '' `` If You Gotta Go, Go Now '' / `` To Ramona '' ( only in Europe ) 1968 `` Drifter 's Escape '' / `` John Wesley Harding '' `` All Along the Watchtower '' / `` I 'll Be Your Baby Tonight '' 1969 `` I Threw It All Away '' / `` Drifter 's Escape '' `` Lay Lady Lay '' / `` Peggy Day '' `` Tonight I 'll Be Staying Here with You '' / `` Country Pie '' 1970 `` If Not for You '' / `` New Morning '' `` Wigwam '' / `` Copper Kettle '' 1971 `` Watching the River Flow '' / `` Spanish is the Loving Tongue '' `` George Jackson '' ( band version ) / `` George Jackson '' ( acoustic version ) 1973 `` Knockin ' on Heaven 's Door '' / `` Turkey Chase '' ( instrumental from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ) `` A Fool Such as I '' / `` Lily of the West '' `` On a Night Like This '' / `` You Angel You '' `` Something There Is About You '' / `` Tough Mama '' `` Most Likely You Go Your Way ( And I 'll Go Mine ) '' ( live with The Band ) `` All Along the Watchtower '' / `` It Ai n't Me Babe '' `` Tangled Up in Blue '' / `` If You See Her, Say Hello '' `` Million Dollar Bash '' / `` Tears of Rage '' `` Hurricane '' ( Part 1 ) / `` Hurricane '' ( Part 2 ) 1976 `` Mozambique '' / `` Oh Sister '' `` Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again '' ( live ) / `` Rita May '' 1978 `` Baby, Stop Crying '' / `` We Better Talk This Over '' `` Changing of the Guards '' / `` Señor ( Tales of Yankee Power ) '' `` Is Your Love In Vain ? '' / `` We Better Talk This Over '' 1979 `` Maggie 's Farm ( live ) / `` All Along the Watchtower '' `` Forever Young '' ( live ) / `` All Along the Watchtower '' / `` I Want You '' `` Man Gave Names to All the Animals '' / `` When You Gonna Wake Up ? '' `` Gotta Serve Somebody '' / `` Trouble in Mind '' `` Precious Angel '' / `` Trouble in Mind '' 1980 `` Slow Train '' / `` Do Right to Me Baby '' `` Solid Rock '' / `` Covenant Woman '' `` Saved '' / `` Are You Ready ? '' 1981 `` Heart of Mine '' / `` Let It Be Me '' `` Dead Man, Dead Man '' / `` Lenny Bruce '' `` Union Sundown '' / `` Angel Flying too Close to the Ground '' `` I and I '' / `` Angel Flying too Close to the Ground '' `` Sweetheart Like You '' / `` Union Sundown '' 1984 `` Jokerman '' / `` Isis '' 1985 `` Tight Connection to My Heart ( Has Anybody Seen My Love ) '' / `` We Better Talk this Over '' `` When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky '' / `` Emotionally Yours '' 1986 `` Band of the Hand '' / `` Joe 's Death '' ( Michael Rubini ) `` Got My Mind Made Up '' / `` The Usual '' 1988 `` Silvio '' / `` Driftin ' too Far from the Shore '' 1989 `` Everything Is Broken '' / `` Death is Not the End '' `` Slow Train '' ( live with The Grateful Dead ) 1990 `` Political World '' / `` Ring Them Bells '' ( only in the UK and Australia ) `` Most of the Time '' / `` Most of the Time ( edit piece ) `` Unbelievable '' / `` 10,000 Men '' 1991 `` Series of Dreams '' / `` Seven Curses '' `` Blind Willie McTell '' / `` It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry '' ( from The Bootleg Series Volumes 1 - 3 ) `` Step it Up and Go '' -- ( no b - side ) 1993 `` My Back Pages '' ( with Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, George Harrison ) -- ( no b - side ) 1995 `` Dignity '' ( live on MTV Unplugged ) / `` A Hard Rain 's a-Gonna Fall '' ( live version ) `` Knockin ' on Heaven 's Door '' / `` John Brown '' ( both live on MTV Unplugged ) 1998 `` Not Dark Yet '' / `` Tombstone Blues '' ( live ) / `` Ballad of a Thin Man '' ( live ) / `` Boots of Spanish Leather '' ( live ) `` Love Sick '' / `` Tombstone Blues '' ( live ) 2000 `` Things Have Changed '' / `` Make You Feel My Love '' ( live ) / `` Hurricane '' / `` Song to Woody '' ( live ) 2006 `` Someday Baby '' / `` Someday Baby '' ( edit piece ) `` Rollin ' and Tumblin ' '' / `` Not Dark Yet '' / `` High Water ( for Charley Patton ) '' 2007 `` Most Likely You Go Your Way ( And I 'll Go Mine ) '' ( Mark Ronson remix version ) / `` Most Likely You Go Your Way ( And I 'll Go Mine ) '' ( album version ) 2008 `` Dreamin ' of You '' ( edit piece ) / `` Dreamin ' of You '' ( album version ) 2009 `` Beyond Here Lies Nothin ' '' / `` Down Along the Cove '' ( live ) `` I Feel a Change Comin ' On '' / `` I Feel a Change Comin ' On '' ( edit piece ) `` Must Be Santa '' / `` ' Twas the Night Before Christmas '' `` The Times They Are a-Changin ' '' ( demo version ) / `` Like a Rolling Stone '' 2012 `` Duquesne Whistle '' 2013 `` Wigwam '' ( demo version ) / `` Thirsty Boots '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tangled_Up_in_Blue&oldid=834103473 '' Categories : 1975 singles 1975 songs Bob Dylan songs Columbia Records singles Song recordings produced by Bob Dylan Songs written by Bob Dylan Hidden categories : Music infoboxes with deprecated parameters Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Español Français Italiano 日本 語 Norsk nynorsk Polski Русский Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 3 April 2018, at 23 : 23. 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