I need a Bob Dylan line for my classroom

I teach middle-school social studies and English. Our art teacher has her students paint ceiling tiles having to do with the subject you teach. It's my turn, and she's having her students paint a portrait of Bob Dylan. There's room for one line of lyrics, maybe about a dozen words, tops.

Keeping in mind their age and the language arts/social studies slant of the theme, who has some good lyric suggestions for me?

The cynic in me wants to go with "I used to care, but things have changed..." but that's not sending the message I want!

 

"you dont need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows?"

 

I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released

 

Dont follow leaders, watch the parking meters

Just anything but "I Started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff".

 

What about the simple:

"The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind"

 

I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them

 

"Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule."

 

There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend.

 

Good contenders! I am just overwhelmed trying to single out one line on my own.

 

"twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift" is probably not what you are looking for.

I was gonna give you a beautiful line from Tomorrow Is A Long Time, that you'd have to paraphrase given the limited space, and miss the full power of it in doing so, but then I realized the obvious choice:

"(someday), everything is gonna be different, when I paint that masterpiece."

 

The path is ever winding
The stars they never age
The morning light is blinding
All the world's a stage

 

"You know it balances on your head
Just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine".

There ya go, deep, meaningful and insightful - the kids will love it! Trust me!

 

Johnny’s in the basement Mixing up the medicine

 

Don't think twice, it's alright.

 

May you stay... forever young

 

At midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do

 

That's pretty great for every age.

 

"steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king."

 

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now

 

The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face.

or...


And Louise holds a handful of rain tempting you to defy it.

 

All Along The Watchtower....

So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late

JG

 

Don't criticize what you can't understand

 

Your cracked country lips
I still wish to kiss.

 

"If there's an original thought out there, I could use it right now"

 

But I'll know my song well before I start singin'