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| Bob Dylan – Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Man, like so many others i love this song, hats off to Dylan for another magnificently eloquent song. I also want to say that i completely agree with everyone else's take on the song, thats one of the reasons its such a good song, it can fit in so many different situations and can be interpreted in so many ways. I definitely feel like it could be a mutual split, with both sides wronged, or a bitter one, ridden with sarcasm, but one opinion I particularly agreed with SexieSadie's comments. In the current relationship im involved in, I imagine this song is kind of like a guys true thoughts about a relationship that is not really working. Shes still in love with him, and he still has feelings for her but he realizes that its just not meant to be. All the things he listed are result of his solitary brooding over the conflicts that exist between them. Essentially the route of the problem is a lack of communication, hes thought of all these things that he wants to tell her but cant. I think the title line is kind of like him saying here are all the things that need to change but dont bother trying to fix them cause there just not meant to be fixed. Not only are the lyrics fantastic but i also love the finger picking of the guitar it really fits the melancholy almost mournful mood of the song. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Atlantic City Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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he reminds me of a john steinbeck of music, he seems to always be writing about the tough life of down and out people who struggle to get by but like steinbeck there is always hope |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Lost In The Flood Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Early15 definitely knows what he is talking about but I dont think it's meant to be taken so literally, I think it is about human nature for evil in general. Each verse is an example of some of the fates we suffer due to our imperfections, and lost in the flood is basically saying he could not over come his human tendency for destruction of ourselves and everything around us. Whether bruce meant to say that or if we are reading into it too much doesn't matter it is still one fo the best written songs ever. Best line in my opinion:
Nuns run bald through Vatican halls pregnant, pleadin' immaculate conception
And everybody's wrecked on Main Street from drinking unholy blood |
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| Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I agree that while Dylan could have been involved with drugs during the writing of this song, though this was a little earlier in his career before he dabbled too heavily, it seems unlikely that this song is solely about drugs. Like much poetry it may have started as a song about drugs but evolved to something different, but for certain reasons it is not very probable that the songs main focus is a dealer. I believe that his inspiration for this song was possibly a street musician witnessed in New York or someplace and he decided to write about the escape offered by music and art along with the sense you achieve from narcotics. Escape and freedom are the focuses of this song not the specific drug or music that permits you to obtain it. |
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| Neil Young – My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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although people have excellent points and have anylyzed and determined an exact meaning for each and every line, i dont believe this song is meant to be looked at line for line. While it may have a specific inspiration, i believe the song is just about leading the kind of glorious life everyone dreams of but no one really wants, a short but exciting life, that makes you more famous in your death than you ever could be alive |
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| The Who – Squeeze Box Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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i like the idea that its from a kids point of view and hes trying to explain the act of sex which is something he doesnt understand with terms like "sqeezebox" given to him by his parents |
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| Bruce Springsteen – A Love So Fine Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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anybody else notice this is the same song as so young and in love but with a different chorus. possibly and earlier version of the latter? help me out |
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| Bruce Springsteen – The Angel Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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guys?! come on this song is so well written and no comments. here is my idea but someone else has got to help me out: the angel is some kind of local hero, a teenage rebel with a motorcycle who all the kids idolize. however parts of the song seem a little sexually suggestive, but i dont know.
Also they left out the last line of the song here it is:
The woman strokes his polished chrome and lies beside the angel's bones. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Incident On 57th Street Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i also wanted to add something that i found pretty cool, when bruce says:Upstairs a band was playin', the singer was singin' something about goin' home
he was referring to the song i don't wanna go home by southside johnny and the asbury jukes, of whom bruce was a good friend.
Also for anyone who likes this song there is an amazing version from main point '75 on youtube, great concert by the way |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Incident On 57th Street Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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this song reminds me so much of a west side story, not that hard to understand but such a great epic tale from early in bruces career, that whole album is fantastic. this song is a great story about a forbidden love that was never meant to be, just to young kids caught up in the fiery passions of young love in the city |
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| Bruce Springsteen – 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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guys once again almost no comments especially on a song thats considered one of bruces best written.
i feel that its about a kid, like bruce, who has fallen in love with asbury park, but knows that its time for him to leave, this message is really portrayed in the lines:And you know that tilt-a-whirl down on the south beach drag/ I got on it last night and my shirt got caught/ And they kept me spinnin'/ I didn't think I'd ever get off
this is such a great metaphor for his feelings about leaving the shore, he had so much here that when it comes time to move on he finds the trip impossible, a dilemma i am sure bruce was faced with when he started getting big and going on tours |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Bishop Danced Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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come on guys this song is so fun, nothing to poignant but still great.
what i take to be is just a fun dance song that could have been played by the pioneers around the campfire, any other ideas |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Adam Raised a Cain Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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dude this is probably the best song off the whole album between the amazing guitar, lyrics and powerful vocals from bruce, he was wasnt even singing, more like moaning and wailing into the mike, so raw and magnificent, only bruce could do it.
As for the lyrics, even the title gets you thinking, proposing the idea that it was the father adam that raised cain to be the terrible son he was makes you take a whole other outlook on the story, plus he worked this idea into his own relationship with his father.
the best lines by far are:He was standin' in the door I was standin' in the rain
With the same hot blood burning in our veins
Adam raised a Cain
What a picture!!! this is really the guts of an explosive relationship with a father. Kind of like you cant stand your old man, but you are so exactly like him in so many ways, and he is responsible for everything you dont like about yourself... man i could go on but this song does the job |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Backstreets Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i have always felt that this song would be a great soundtrack to a montage of kids having fun in summer, enjoying the last moments of their totally free and innocent youth, because while the lyrics tend to indicate a relationship whith a girl, the song is really just about kids who want to be friends forever but realize they cant.
my favorite line, no special metaphor or anything but still powerful, is "Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see/ Trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be/ And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest/ Stranded in the park and forced to confess" |
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| Bob Dylan – Spanish Harlem Incident Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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man it depresses me to see such few comments especially on such a well written song
i like the idea of joan baez being the inspiration for this song, especially since bobby was still young when he wrote this and though he was wise beyond his years this song proves that even he doesnt know how to fully understand and express his feelings toward women |
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| Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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while people seem to focus on the apocalyptic message in the song, which is probably the main point, the song also refers to racism and prejudice in several of the lines. One line says "i saw a white man walk a black dog" this most likely is a metaphor for the white mans supposed superiority over the black man. Also the main refrain about a blue eyed son could be referring to the white children of america, saying the hard rain that will fall is the need for change in our racist ways |
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| Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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building on what shep420 is saying i think that highway 61, as represented in dylan's song and as proven throughout history, is a place where anything can happen, howver the events are usually of an obscene quality, i.e. abe killing his son, rob johnson selling his soul, etc. |
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| Bob Dylan – Tombstone Blues Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i love this song and lyrics are fantastic with so many allusions, metaphors, and punns, however while each line has its own meaning, find it impossible to look at the whole song if you focus on each stanza separately.
i think the most important stanza is the last one before the refrain, just throwing it out there but the lines suggest that the main character is crazy and contains much random knowledge. Considering this idea allows the rest of the song to be disjointed and utterly nonsensical. And while this may not be the eloquent metaphor for todays society that everyone expects from booby d, i think hes earned the right to have a little fun with his songs. |
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| Bob Dylan – I Want You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i like andrewjg's interpretation about the song referring to many lovers, however i think he's reading into it too much. i don't believe each stanza has one specific meaning rather the title " i want you" is something that can be felt by people of all backgrounds and he expresses this in the lines. \
PS for bruce fans, there is an amazing cover of this song from the main point '75 check it out on you tube |
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| Bob Dylan – Ballad of a Thin Man Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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First i'd like to say that there is definitely more than one way interpret this song, and this is one of the main reasons that dylan is such a great writer.
My opinion on the song is that Mr. Jones is the average, upperclass, white collar worker, hence the average name and the 4th verse with the line "you're very well read its well known." Mr. Jones, like many americans feel like they know everything, but really they are ignorant and naive in the true happenings of the world. Each bizarre encounter represents an everyday occurance that puzzles these arrogant citizens.
This song like many others from dylan is kind of like a pessimistic judgement on todays society, and also like the rest of his songs it isn't quite supposed to be inspected line by line but instead taken as a whole. |
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| Bob Dylan – Desolation Row Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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heres my best interpretation of it: desolation row is a state of mind which can not be labeled as good or bad, but it is simply a place in everyones mind that they escape to when they are tired of the world and want to be by themselves. for some it is like isolated depression for others it may be meditation. in the last stanza of the song it suggests that the whole story is really the letter and the acharacters are the people mentioned by the writer of the letter but with different names given to them by the reader and that the reader is part of this world outside of desolation row which can be both good and bad |
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