Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (2009)

Bob Dylan has produced quite an interesting song.



"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'"
Single by Bob Dylan
from the album Together Through Life
Released March 2009
Writer(s) Bob Dylan, Robert Hunter
Producer Jack Frost (Bob Dylan)

"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" is the opening track of Bob Dylan's 2009 studio album, Together Through Life. The title is a quote from the ancient Roman poet Ovid's "Poems from Exile."

LYRICS:

I love you pretty baby
You're the only love I've ever known
Just as long as you stay with me
The whole world is my throne
Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothin' we can call our own

I'm movin' after midnight
Down boulevards of broken cars
Don't know what to do without it
Without this love that we call ours
Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothin' but the moon and stars

Down every street there's a window
And every window made of glass
We'll keep on lovin' pretty baby
For as long as love will last
Beyond here lies nothin'
But the mountains of the past

My ship is in the harbor
And the sails are spread
Listen to me pretty baby
Lay your hand upon my head
Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothin' done and nothin' said

OVID (20 March 43 BC – 17 or 18 AD): Poems from Exile

I alone have been dispatched to the Danube’s outflow
to shiver beneath the dead weight of northern skies
only the river (scant barrier!) lies between me and countless
barbarian hordes. Although
other men have been exiled by you for graver offences
none was packed further off:
beyond here lies nothing but chillness, hostility, frozen
waves of an ice-hard sea.

Below is a photograph (from Wikipedia Commons) of Ovid's statue in Constanţa, Romania, the city where he died.