| Grateful Dead – Franklin's Tower Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well, obviously, he is using Franklin's tower, and the bell, as his form of telling a story. Liberty bell??? Uh, yeah, that is a no brainer, but he is using the story of Ben Franklin to make a point about freedom. That is as plain as the paper he wrote it on. When you start making more of it than the allegory intended, that is when you need to stop and take a breath. Since meaningful stories are nearly always applicable to larger issues, allegories may be read into many stories, sometimes distorting their author's overt meaning. |
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| Grateful Dead – Franklin's Tower Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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P.S. Far be it for me to quote religious text, but....along these same lines is the following: Proverbs 11:29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. |
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| Grateful Dead – Franklin's Tower Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think you guys are trying to read too much into this. While he could indeed have implied some of the things mentioned, it is more basic. "Roll away the dew" is a message to shake off your sloth and wake up, quit lying down in the grass collecting dew. "Another times forgotten space", is referring to when you were alive in the womb about to be born into the current "reality". And the best lyric of all, "if you plant ice, you're going to harvest wind", is simply what is stated: ice is a cold substance that melts away and leaves nothing. If you don't plant the seeds of love in your life, you harvest wind. | |
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