I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)

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"I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)"
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"I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and released on his fourth studio album Another Side of Bob Dylan in 1964.

Recording

The album recording was done in a single take, and Dylan chuckles to himself as he realizes that he has sung the verse beginning "Though her skirt it swayed as a guitar played" before the verse beginning, "Though the night ran swirling and whirling," contrary to the printed lyrics.[1]

Critical reception

Dylan biographer Robert Shelton describes it as being about "the intoxication of a night of love followed by the throbbing headache of his partner's emotional abandonment and detachment."[2]

Live performances

Dylan has played the song 363 times live between 1964 and 2013.

The Last Waltz (recorded in San Francisco on November 25, 1976), and The Bootleg Series Vol. 13: Trouble No More 1979–1981
(Deluxe Edition) (recorded in London on June 27, 1981).

Notes

  1. ^ "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)". the Bob Dylan Commentaries. 2013-02-03. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  2. ^ Shelton, Robert. No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan (New York: Ballantine 1986), p. 248.
  3. ^ "Bob Dylan Tour Statistics | setlist.fm". www.setlist.fm. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  4. ^ "I don't believe you (She acts like we never have met). Dylan prepares the ground for the songs of disdain | Untold DylanUntold Dylan". 2015-09-30. Retrieved 2021-01-03.

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