In the summer and fall of 1999, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon did a joint concert tour, sharing the bill and alternating night by night as to who opened and who closed each show. The sets Bob played were short as compared to his normal gigs. As the tour approached New York City, and the scheduled Dylan/Simon show at Madison Square Garden, a new date was announced at short notice, at a club in the city called Tramps. This would be just Dylan and his band (though Elvis Costello made a surprise appearance for the closer, I Shall Be Released). Among the nineteen tunes they played that night was a very nice version of Every Grain of Sand.

I gaze into the doorway of temptation’s angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name.
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand.

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