Bob Dylan has just released a 16-minute, 55-second song about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It’s called Murder Most Foul.
The epic is the folk rocker’s first original song since 2012 and details the grim and visceral nature of the U.S. president’s death in 1963.
In the second verse, Dylan, 78, sings: “The day they blew out the brains of the king / Thousands were watching; no one saw a thing / It happened so quickly, so quick, by surprise / Right there in front of everyone’s eyes / Greatest magic trick ever under the sun / Perfectly executed, skillfully done / Wolfman, oh wolfman, oh wolfman howl / Rub-a-dub-dub, it’s a murder most foul.” A statement released in conjunction with the track on Friday revealed that Murder Most Foul is a