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| Type O Negative – Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young cover) Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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There is a cogent effort on this string to interpret the song as a metaphor for heroin use. I must admit I wondered about the same possibility. But I believe the song is simply a beautiful imagistic musical tribute to a young lady that has either caught the author's fascination or is an idealized product of his imagination. The drug interpretation can be applied to many songs (as the Michelle Pfeiffer character does to Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" in the film "Dangerous Minds." That interpretation is rather forced and falls way down the list of plausibility for that joyful anthem to imagination and freedom from stress and responsibility. So I'm with those who see "Cinnamon Girl" as a very well crafted bit of youthful romantic idealism. |
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| Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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People who are into drugs tend to see drug references. I've known this song well since it came out. I wanted to laugh out loud when Michelle Pfeiffer taught the drug interpretation to her class in "Dangerous Minds." One can find lyrics in the song that can be identified with drug high experiences. But the song is a lot more than that, and I doubt that Dylan wrote it as a paean to drug use. The song is about artistic inspiration, about perception of the world around, and about mysticism--about looking for and finding, however temporarily, surcease from care and worry, from the demands and trammels of prosaic and mortal existence. |
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