<Dd> Sometimes must have to stand naked </Dd> <P> These lines seemed particularly prescient when Dylan performed the song on his 1974 tour with the Band, a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States as a result of the Watergate crisis . After the song has confronted sex, religion and politics, it ends with the lines: </P> <Dl> <Dd> And if my thought - dreams could be seen </Dd> <Dd> They'd probably put my head in a guillotine </Dd> <Dd> But it's alright, Ma, it's life and life only </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> And if my thought - dreams could be seen </Dd>

Who is not busy being born is busy dying