Not all songs are like Like a Rolling Stone, chosen by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest rock and roll song of all time (not in the least biased by the naming, of course), and some more simple numbers prove this once again. Like a Rolling Stone contains 409 total and 187 unique words, a long song, perhaps, but consistent with Dylan's oeuvre. In comparison with the total RS500 (in which Dylan holds 14 places), Dylan's songs are on the average longer and use a greater vocabulary:

                              RS500                                         Dylan
                Total Lyrics         Unique               Total Lyrics           Unique

AVG               227           91                                   297           133
MIN                 48           24                                     17           16
MAX           3010           699                                   1838           617