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| Bob Dylan – You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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this is one of the most beautiful, unassuming songs he ever wrote. that last verse is as close to perfect as he ever got--nothing more than it needs to be, but everything it should be. It's like, I know you gotta go, and that's alright because I'll be seeing you and thinking about you all the time. Unsurpassed beauty. |
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| Bob Dylan – Boots of Spanish Leather Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is sad. Unrequited love, settling for less than what you want. This song pretty much embodies what I like about folk music. It's real stories, not sugarcoated stuff that'd never happen. Folk artists get the truth, I think. And Bob's one hell of a folk artist. |
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| Bob Dylan – Billy Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Billy, you're so far away from home.
I think this is a very autobiographical song for Bob. He said in the "No Direction Home" interview that at the beginning of his career, he set out looking for "home," and he didn't know what it looked like, but he knew he had to go there. Of course, in 1973, he was nowhere near home. He probably still isn't. He is Billy. |
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| Bob Dylan – All Over You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is just a really, really funny pun. This is the kind of song that makes Bob a great writer: he can write a song like this with no real meaning, and it can still make the listener come back a million times to listen to it again. |
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| Bob Dylan – It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I feel like this has a lot to do with Bob's move from acoustic to electric, that he's telling his fans that he's done with that scene. Although I don't think any of Bob's songs really meant to capture any specific event (except for the ones that cite specific events), just capture emotions. This captures the emotion of knowing it's time to get up and move on. |
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| Bob Dylan – Song to Woody Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is an example of the great songs that get produced when the writer is truly inspired. It sounds like Bob knew he NEEDED to write this song. It comes straight from the heart. |
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| Bob Dylan – Positively 4th Street Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Used to like some girl, or some friend, and now he's got that feeling where he never wants to see them again. I know that feeling rather well. |
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| Bob Dylan – It Ain't Me Babe Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The difference between the way this song is played on Another Side and Rolling Thunder Revue and Real Live is incredible. On Another Side it sounds like kind of a joke, but it tugs at your heart anyway. On Rolling Thunder it sounds like breaking free, and on Real Live it just sounds straight-up sad. All in all, I'd say it's pretty much just one of the saddest, most honest songs ever written. |
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| Bob Dylan – Maggie's Farm Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I honestly think it's about his expected folk music and how he's not going to do it anymore. I say this mostly because of the album that it's on and what the album did to his folkie fans. Maggie's Farm I guess would be his expected churning out of "Times they are a-changin'"s, but he didn't want to do that anymore, hence "I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more." |
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| Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I'd have to agree. I think that he addresses many specific issues in this song, but all in all, his belief that "Highway 61" is just a cesspool is the overriding theme. |
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| Bob Dylan – Tombstone Blues Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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First, let me say the problems I think Bob addresses in this song, then I'll explain what I think it all means. I think he talks about economic problems (Jack the Ripper at the head of the chamber of commerce), people overdramatizing their problems, and being ignorant about them ("Swallow your pride, you will not die, it is not poison"), the stupidity of the government (The commander-in-chief claiming that the sun isn't yellow but chicken), then he explains it all.
I think the last verse basically means that Bob wishes he could put the problems of the world in simpler terms, rather than this confusing metaphor-y song. He wishes he could, but the problems are already so complicated that he is unable to put them simply.
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