| Bob Dylan – Nettie Moore Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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what a beautiful chorus. the line The world has gone black before my eyes, is, like a lot of lines from modern times, from peter green's translation of ovid, this time from amores book 3, poem 5 - a poem where ovid's daydream is explained to him as his fear of his mistress' adultery. |
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| Bob Dylan – Clothes Line Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I love the lyrics to this song. I kind of imagine Dylan's returned home afters months, years of touring, drugs, parties, girls being his life. Then, he comes home to the daily swing of life - the small talk between neighbours, the household chores. The attitude to politics/politicians in the second verse being particuarly interesting. They are not in a position to change things, they have the most casual reactions to what would be no doubt headline news - Ma just wants to know whether the clothes are still wet. |
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| Leonard Cohen – The Old Revolution Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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One of my friends intepretation is the "Into this furnace..." chorus is God speaking speaking to the Jews to enter in the gas chambers, and the "you whom I cannot betray" is heavily ironic as the Jews consider themselves bound into a covenant with God, and it is them whom he loves most. Or, then again, having said that I believe it is Cohen asking us to go into the sites of atrocities to take lessons to learn so these horrors can never be repeated. Hence the line: Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows. I love the version of this done by the walkmen too. |
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