# Bob Dylan on Songwriting Magic and His Bargain With Destiny

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118097829046472999
- Source account: [@Paracelsvs2](https://x.com/Paracelsvs2)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:20
- Published: 2026-11-08
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny) Ever look at music that you've written- No ... and look back at it and say, "Whoa- Mm-hmm ... that surprised me"?

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=7) I used to. Uh, I, I, I don't do that anymore.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=12) Uh, I don't know how I got to, to write those songs.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=17) What do you mean you don't know how? Well, those early songs were, like, almost magically written.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=22) Um, uh, "Darkness at the break of noon. Shadows even the silver spoon.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=27) A handmade blade, a child's balloon." "Eclipses both the sun and moon.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=32) To understand, you knew too soon. There is no sense in trying."

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=36) Try to sit down and write something like that.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=38) Uh, th- there's a magic to that, and it's not a Siegfried & Roy kind of magic, you know?

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=45) It's a, it's a different kind of a penetrating magic.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=49) Why do you still do it? Why are you still out here?

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=51) Well, it goes back to the destiny thing.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=54) You know, I made a d- bargain with it, you know, a long time ago, and I'm holding up my end.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=62) What was your bargain? To get where, um, I am now.

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=67) Sh- should I ask who you made the bargain with?

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=70) With, with, with, with, with, you know, with the chief g- uh, chief commander.

[1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Sd5v3qBy0D9j/en/bob-dylan-on-songwriting-magic-and-his-bargain-with-destiny?t=75) On this earth? In this earth and in, uh, and in the world we can't see.