| Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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wow rarely have i read interpretations as forced as the ones the bible thumpers keep spewing out here... Basically here is a synapse: The word watchtower is in the song: The word watchtower also appears int he bible!!!!! the word thief appears: there are thieves in the bible!!!! Tarot cards depict jesus as a joker!!!!! Wowwwwww stop the presses discussion over. Impossible to argue with that kind of airtight logic!!!! |
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| Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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wow rarely have i read interpretations as forced as the ones the bible thumpers keep spewing out here... Basically here is a synapse: The word watchtower is in the song: The word watchtower also appears int he bible!!!!! the word thief appears: there are thieves in the bible!!!! Tarot cards depict jesus as a joker!!!!! Wowwwwww stop the presses discussion over. Impossible to argue with that kind of airtight logic!!!! |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Catfish Blues Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| well it's pretty obvious what the song is about.... though i'm not certain the website has correct lyrics posted for this one... | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Well i think Picasso gets it right about the music for the most part. good post... The lyrics do carry more meaning than the ramblings of a drug induced haze however. First off the title: the theme to (slight return) seems related in only one way to the theme of voodoo chile... I.E., the theme of he (jimi) being a "voodoo child" which in numerous hendrix (hear my train a comin, as one example) songs seems to refer to being "special" or extraordinary. Being able to chop down a mountain may very well have been inspired by an acid trip, though i defy you to offer a shred of evidence other than the fact that one can "see" jimi doing this in southern california. You can "see it", great, doesn't mean it EVER happened. chopping down a mountain and making an island out of the pieces would seem to be symbolic of achieving great things, being godlike, being special, being a "voodoo child". Maybe he had a trip about it, maybe not, probably will never know so why pretend like you do???? Now the other part of this song is jimi telling people he's "sorry for taking up your sweet time" this is likely a reference to the people who thought he was worthless growing up, it is well documented jimi hated highschool and the town he grew up in. More telling lyrics: I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time I'll give it right back to ya one of these days Hahaha I said i didn't mean to take up all your sweet time I'll give it right back one of these days Oh yeah If i don't meet you no more in this world then uh I'll meet ya on the next one (I'm pretty sure it's actually "I don't need you no more in this world, I'll meet you in the next one, now don't be late!) These lyrics seem to be resentful of the way people treated him earlier in life, and now jimi doesn't want anything to do with these people so he'll meet them in the next world. So it's a song about jimi making something out of himself despite the people who didn't have time for him when he was a kid. Because he is truly a voodoo child. So in that way it is a song about determination and more specifically: self determination. and i would agree that the word voodoo can be seen as referring to many themes including things like satan or black magic. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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well if you accept that this was indeed a jimi hendrix cover of the bob dylan song by the same name, then i can only assume that hendrix would use and sing the same lyrics as bob dylan... If you don't agree w/ that then you can stop reading my post right now. Now as has been said repeatedly: the correct lyrics are NOT: No one will level on the line Nobody of it is worth But are instead: None of them along the line know what any of it is worth Now sureley hendrix mumbled a bit and may have fudged a few syllables, but those ARE THE LYRICS. As for overall interpretations: the song can be interpreted in a # of ways... from a plain reading of the lyrics the most obvious meaning is some sort of class struggle. There are too many references to class to ignore e.g., a joker and thief, bussines men, plow men, the people "along the line" (conformists perhaps?), princes, all the women, barefoot servants. These all seem to references to people of different classes. Now, The joker is angry about his place in the world; as evidenced by the first verse: too much confusion, can't get no relief. bussiness men drink my win and plow men dig my earth... And none of them know what it's worth!!!! In the second verse the thief responds. He seems to suggest he is a nihilist (many of us believe the world is but a joke) and tries to calm the joker down. the third final verse breaks from the conversation into a third person view. Society moves on: Princes (elites) are keeping view from the watchtower, behind the walls women come and go, barefoot servants too. However outside the walls, the wind is blowing and wild animals are howling, and presumably the thief and joker are the two horsemen.... Will they come in and shake things up?? the end leaves it to the imagination. Now this is to me the most coherent explanation of the song. agree disagree? Certainly there are many references to other themes aside from class struggle, nihilism being one. perhaps religion??? though i admit i see no religious references...I see no reference to Vietnam either, doesn't mean it isn't there however. Always interesting how people will project their own meanings onto songs, but i think my interpretation may be closest to what dylan intended. It's certainly the most complete interp. i've seen on this site! |
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