My Back Pages (4:23)

“My Back Pages” is a song written by Bob Dylan and included on his 1964 Another Side of Bob Dylan album (see 1964 in music). It is stylistically similar to his earlier folk protest songs and features Dylan’s voice with an acoustic guitar accompaniment. However its lyrics and in particular the refrain “Ah, but I was so much older then/I’m younger than that now” seem intended as a rejection of Dylan’s earlier personal and political idealism, coupled with his growing disillusionment with the 1960s folk music “protest scene” with which he was associated.