WHAT GOOD AM I?


WHAT GOOD AM I?
	PERFORMANCES SINCE 2010 03/06/10, SOFIA, BULGARIA 12/06/10, LINZ, AUSTRIA 22/06/10, NICE, FRANCE 01/07/10, NANTES, FRANCE
	What good am I If I’m like all the rest If I just turn away When I see how you’re dressed If I shut myself off So I can’t hear you cry What good am I? What good am I If I know and don’t do If I see and don’t say If I look right through you If I turn a deaf ear To the thunderin’ sky What good am I? What good am I While you softly weep And I hear in my head What you say in your sleep And I freeze in the moment Like the rest who don’t try What good am I? What good am I then To others and me If I’ve had every chance And yet still fail to see If my hands are tied Must I not wonder within Who tied them and why And where must I have been? What good am I If I say foolish things And I laugh in the face of What sorrow brings And I just turn my back While you silently die What good am I?
From 1989 to 1999 “WHAT GOOD AM I?” had 158 stage appearances. I had seen Bob perform it twice during that decade, in Bad Mergentheim 1991, and in Mannheim 1996. For more than ten and a half years “WHAT GOOD AM I?” had not been performed at all by Bob Dylan, when during the fourth show of his European tour of 2010, he pulled it out in Sofia, Bulgaria. Nine days later “WHAT GOOD AM I?” appeared again during a very fine set in Linz, Austria. Ten days after that “WHAT GOOD AM I?” was performed in Nice, France, and nine days after that once more in France, in Nantes. ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ LINZ, AUSTRIA ~ JUNE 12, 2010 ~ ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ NICE, FRANCE ~ JUNE 22, 2010 ~ Biblical references: ~ James 4 ~ Whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. ~ Romans 7 ~ I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! See for yourself "if the Bible is right".