Beyond Here Lies Nothin’

Beyond Here Lies Nothin’

Bob Dylan

“Beyond Here Lies Nothin'”, the opener of Dylan’s album Together Through Life (2009).

The title of the song is a quote from the ancient Roman poet Ovid. The exact quote can be found in: Ovid The Poems of Exile Tristia and the Black Sea Letters’ translated with an introduction by Peter Green. University of California Press. 2005. Tristia Book II lines 192- 196:

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"

The song closely resembles Otis Rush’s “All Your Love (I Miss Lovin')”. Although there are no direct lyrical references, the melody and arrangement are very similar.