High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "My Back Pages" is a song written by Bob Dylan and included on his 1964 album, Another Side of Bob Dylan. It is stylistically similar to his earlier folk protest songs and features Dylan`s voice with an acoustic guitar accompaniment. However, its lyrics—in particular the refrain "Ah, but I was so much older then/I`m younger than that now"—have been interpreted as a rejection of Dylan`s earlier personal and political idealism, illustrating his growing disillusionment with the 1960`s folk protest movement with which he was associated, and his desire to move in a new direction. Despite having been written in 1964, the song was not performed live by Dylan until 1988.