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.
Notes
- ^ "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)". the Bob Dylan Commentaries. 2013-02-03. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ^ Shelton, Robert. No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan (New York: Ballantine 1986), p. 248.
- ^ "Bob Dylan Tour Statistics | setlist.fm". www.setlist.fm. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ^ "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.