Everything Is Broken

"Everything is Broken" is a song written and recorded by American musician Bob Dylan, and released on his 1989 album, Oh Mercy. The song's lyrics describe Dylan's detachment from his world at the time of its writing.^[1] The track found on Oh Mercy is a re-working of a take recorded earlier. The original version, recorded by Dylan in March 1989 in New Orleans, was included on the 2008 compilation album The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006. A cover version appears on Kenny Wayne Shepherds hit album "Trouble Is...

Composition

Originally recorded as "Broken Days" in March 1989, Dylan had rewritten the song entirely by April, giving it its current name. "Everything is Broken" is one of Dylan's songs that he has reworked many times over. In an interview with Nigel Williamson (the author of The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan) and Oh Mercy's producer, Daniel Lanois, he described how Dylan would rework his songs over and over again:

"I sat next to him for two months while he wrote [Oh Mercy] and it was extraordinary. Bob overwrites. He keeps chipping away at his verses. He has a place for all his favorite couplets, and those couplets can be interchangeable. I've seen the same lyrics show up in two or three different songs as he cuts and pastes them around, so it's not quite as sacred ground as you might think.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Williamson, N. The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan (1st ed, 2004), p. 296

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Studio albums	Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan The Times They Are a-Changin' Another Side of Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home Highway 61 Revisited Blonde on Blonde John Wesley Harding Nashville Skyline Self Portrait New Morning Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Planet Waves Blood on the Tracks Desire Street-Legal Slow Train Coming Saved Shot of Love Infidels Empire Burlesque Knocked Out Loaded Down in the Groove Oh Mercy Under the Red Sky Good as I Been to You World Gone Wrong Time Out of Mind Love and Theft Modern Times Together Through Life Christmas in the Heart Tempest

Live albums	Before the Flood Hard Rain Bob Dylan at Budokan Real Live Dylan & the Dead The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration MTV Unplugged Live 1961–2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances Live at The Gaslight 1962 Live at Carnegie Hall 1963 In Concert – Brandeis University 1963

Compilations	Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II Dylan The Basement Tapes Masterpieces Biograph Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3 The Best of Bob Dylan (1997) The Essential Bob Dylan Bob Dylan: The Collection The Best of Bob Dylan (2005) Blues Dylan The Original Mono Recordings The 50th Anniversary Collection

The Bootleg Series	Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006 Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969–1971)

Concert tours	England Tour (1965) World Tour (1966) Tour with The Band (1974) Rolling Thunder Revue (1975–1976) World Tour (1978) Gospel Tour (1979–1980) World Tour (1981) European Tour (1984) True Confessions Tour (1986) Tour with the Grateful Dead (1987) Temples in Flames Tour (1987)

Never Ending Tour	1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Films	Madhouse on Castle Street Dont Look Back Eat the Document Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Renaldo and Clara Hearts of Fire Masked and Anonymous No Direction Home I'm Not There 65 Revisited The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963–1965 Inside Llewyn Davis

Writings	Tarantula Writings and Drawings Lyrics: 1962–1985 Drawn Blank Chronicles: Volume One Lyrics: 1962–2001 The Definitive Bob Dylan Songbook

Books about Dylan	The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia Bob Dylan, Performing Artist Invisible Republic The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan

Related articles	American folk music revival Awards The Band Bootleg recordings Chimes of Freedom (album) Discography Electric Dylan controversy Great White Wonder List of artists who have covered Bob Dylan songs List of Basement Tapes songs List of Basement Tapes songs (1975) The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams Related topics Songs recorded by Bob Dylan Songs written by Bob Dylan Theme Time Radio Hour Traveling Wilburys

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Bob Dylan singles discography

1960s

1962	"Mixed-Up Confusion" / "Corrina, Corrina"

1963	"Blowin' in the Wind" / "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"

1965	"The Times They Are a-Changin'" / "Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance" "Maggie's Farm" / "On the Road Again" "Subterranean Homesick Blues" / "She Belongs to Me" "Like a Rolling Stone" / "Gates of Eden "Positively 4th Street" / "From a Buick 6" "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" / "Highway 61 Revisited"

1966	"One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" / "Queen Jane Approximately" "Rainy Day Women ♯12 & 35" / "Pledging My Time" "I Want You" / "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" (live with The Hawks) "Just Like a Woman" / "Obviously 5 Believers"

1967	"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" / "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" / "To Ramona" (only in Europe)

1968	"Drifter's Escape" / "John Wesley Harding" "All Along the Watchtower" / "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"

1969	"I Threw It All Away" / "Drifter's Escape" "Lay Lady Lay" / "Peggy Day" "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" / "Country Pie"

1970s

1970	"If Not for You" / "New Morning" "Wigwam" / "Copper Kettle"

1971	"Watching the River Flow" / "Spanish is the Loving Tongue" "George Jackson" (band version) / "George Jackson" (acoustic version)

1973	"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" / "Turkey Chase" (instrumental from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) "A Fool Such as I" / "Lily of the West"

1974	"On a Night Like This" / "You Angel You" "Something There Is About You" / "Tough Mama" "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" (live with The Band) "All Along the Watchtower" / "It Ain't Me Babe"

1975	"Tangled Up in Blue" / "If You See Her, Say Hello" "Million Dollar Bash" / "Tears of Rage" "Hurricane" (Part 1) / "Hurricane" (Part 2)

1976	"Mozambique" / "Oh Sister" "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again" (live) / "Rita May"

1978	"Baby, Stop Crying" / "We Better Talk This Over" "Changing of the Guards" / "Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)" "Is Your Love In Vain?" / "We Better Talk This Over"

1979	"Maggie's Farm (live) / "All Along the Watchtower" "Forever Young" (live) / "All Along the Watchtower" / "I Want You" "Man Gave Names to All the Animals" / "When You Gonna Wake Up?" "Gotta Serve Somebody" / "Trouble in Mind" "Precious Angel" / "Trouble in Mind"

1980s

1980	"Slow Train" / "Do Right to Me Baby" "Solid Rock" / "Covenant Woman" "Saved" / "Are You Ready?"

1981	"Heart of Mine" / "Let It Be Me" "Dead Man, Dead Man" / "Lenny Bruce"

1983	"Union Sundown" / "Angel Flying too Close to the Ground" "I and I" / "Angel Flying too Close to the Ground" "Sweetheart Like You" / "Union Sundown"

1984	"Jokerman" / "Isis"

1985	"Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)" / "We Better Talk this Over" "When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky" / "Emotionally Yours"

1986	"Band of the Hand" / "Joe's Death" (Michael Rubini) "Got My Mind Made Up" / "The Usual"

1988	"Silvio" / "Driftin' too Far from the Shore"

1989	"Everything Is Broken" / "Death is Not the End" "Slow Train" (live with The Grateful Dead)

1990s

1990	"Political World" / "Ring Them Bells" (only in the UK and Australia) "Most of the Time" / "Most of the Time (edit piece) "Unbelievable" / "10,000 Men"

1991	"Series of Dreams" / "Seven Curses" "Blind Willie McTell" / "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (from The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3) "Step it Up and Go" — (no b-side)

1993	"My Back Pages" (with Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, George Harrison) — (no b-side)

1995	"Dignity" (live on MTV Unplugged) / "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" (live version) "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" / "John Brown" (both live on MTV Unplugged)

1998	"Not Dark Yet" / "Tombstone Blues" (live) / "Ballad of a Thin Man" (live) / "Boots of Spanish Leather" (live) "Love Sick" / "Tombstone Blues" (live)

2000s

2000	"Things Have Changed" / "Make You Feel My Love" (live) / "Hurricane" / "Song to Woody" (live)

2006	"Someday Baby" / "Someday Baby" (edit piece) "Rollin' and Tumblin'" / "Not Dark Yet" / "High Water (for Charley Patton)"

2007	"Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" (Mark Ronson remix version) / "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" (album version)

2008	"Dreamin' of You" (edit piece) / "Dreamin' of You" (album version)

2009	"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" / "Down Along the Cove" (live) "I Feel a Change Comin' On" / "I Feel a Change Comin' On" (edit piece) "Must Be Santa" / "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"

2010s

2010	"The Times They Are a-Changin'" (demo version) / "Like a Rolling Stone"

2012	"Duquesne Whistle"

2013	"Wigwam" (demo version) / "Thirsty Boots"

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