Not Dark Yet

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“Not Dark Yet”
Album cover
Song by Bob Dylan
Album	Time Out of Mind
Released	September 30, 1997
Recorded	January 1997
Genre	Blues rock
Length	6:29
Label	Columbia
Writer	Bob Dylan
Time Out of Mind track listing
"'Til I Fell in Love with You" (6) "Not Dark Yet" (7) "Cold Irons Bound" (8)

"Not Dark Yet" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his 1997 album Time Out of Mind. Not complex lyrically like the majority of Dylan's catalogue, it instead states a simple message. The lyrics sound like those of a resigned man. He reviews his life: "Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I still got the scars that the sun didn't heal." "Well, I've been to London and I've been to gay Paris/I followed the river and I got to the sea/I've been down on the bottom of a world full of lies/I ain't lookin' for nothin' in anyone's eyes." "Well, I was born here and I'll die here, against my will..."

In 1998, Dylan released the song as an eponymous CD single, with three other unreleased tracks:

1. "Not Dark Yet"
2. "Tombstone Blues" (Live, August 4, 1996)
3. "Ballad of a Thin Man" (Live, August 4, 1996)
4. "Boots of Spanish Leather" (Live, August 3, 1996)

In addition, "Not Dark Yet" appears on the album The Passion of the Christ: Songs Inspired By, and also features on the Wonder Boys soundtrack.

"Not Dark Yet" is also played in the ending part of the documentary Why We Fight (2005 film).

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