| Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Joan Baez – Play Me Backwards Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think I've cracked this one for good! This might not sit well with some people but I believe it explains the mysteries of Bob's life, and this song, very satisfactorily. This was a landmark album from acoustic to electric. Something happened to Bob before writing this album. His whole style and aims changed. He went from beuatifully true songs that needed very little explanation to these mystical songs which have had people perplexed for over 50 years now. Why did he suddenly stop writing songs in protest of the Government? This is what irked many people. He is very vague about what type of songs he was trying to write. He would say something different in almost every press conference. This is where I think I've cracked what happened. To fully understand this a little background knowledge is required. Actually a lot. So if you are interested, please do some research about Billy Graham, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Hunter. All characters who Bob has had close relationships with. Robert Hunter attended Bohemian Grove in 2008. He is who Bob co wrote Together Through Life With. So if you have discovered anything about those people there, and Bohemian Grove, you will know the types that Bob is close with. So, this is what I put forward as the meaning of this song. I believe Mr Tambourine man is Lucifer. Bob was labelled a threat but also a potential ally by the government rulers. They took him aside and explained his options. He decided to make a deal with them in which he would be initiated into their secret order and have access to much knowledge that is kept from the general population. In return he would now essentially be under their jurisdiction and would have to give up his current trend of anti establishment music. From this point on, no matter how good his intentions he would always have to work within this contract he signed. Whether or not you think he made the right decision is a matter of your own opinion. He almost certainly faced some kind of destruction to either his character perception or career or even physical body if he had not signed it, but he had to give up a certain amount of his creative freedom in signing it. The contract also would have guaranteed him his hugely successful career. If you have not already, please watch the 60 mins interview from 2004 in which he puts these things about as plainly as can ever be expected of him. |
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| Bob Dylan – My Wife's Home Town Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A bit silly and funny? Well, yes, if you aren't aware of it's meaning. I believe it is a pointer to where Bob's convictions lie. If you watch the 60 mins interview you can see him claim to have made a "bargain" with someone or something a long time ago to get him to where he is today. The "chief commander of this world and the world we can't see". He is initiated into the occult world of the Freemasons. I believe around the time of "Another side of Bob Dylan", either shortly before or shortly after he was scouted out by the PTB as a potential threat to their agenda. His next album "Bringing it all Back home" has a much more esoteric and abstract theme to it. The songs on that he refers to as magical. A recent video by Lil Wayne portrays him being initiated by a beautiful woman. The beautiful woman is a symbol of what the Devil has to offer as very appealing. Vis a vis, Hell's My Wife's Hometown. Bob still retains much control over his creative output. Nevertheless he is still tied by the bargain he made in his past. Whoever or whatever he made that bargain with he refers to as his wife in this song. Lucifer. So, he is being honest to anyone with ears to hear. Hell's his Wife's Hometown. Believe it or not. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Slow Cheetah Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The slow cheetah is a symbol of stepping away from the norms and realising your own nature and then understanding you needn't always be running at top speed. That is why it is so euphoric. And when that understanding comes to him, to his forest, he says "Looks like it's on today." "Waking up dead inside of my head", is how he used to be during his drug addiction and that was because he was always running. The understanding of the wisdom of the slow cheetah is what saved him. The "mysterious girl misunderstood" is him saying you must look inside of someone to understand them and often a "wedding cake" exterior can be hiding deep mysteries. These are aspects of life that need to be explored. Again he says: "Why try and run away". Again he is saying to slow down and look at what's in front of you. The "girl in the store" is the opposite of the girl "dressed like a wedding cake". She wishes she was dressed like a wedding cake and is all focussed on how she doesn't look as a pose as to how she does look. She spends her money from her store job on more magazines that keep her illusory world active and at the same time keeps her working in a dead end job. All because she wouldn't stop and think and realise who she was: "She barely knew her name." "Everyone has so much to say, they talk, talk, talk their lives away". Here is another reference to people going outside of themselves instead of turning their sight inwards. The burial ground is symbolic of his old ways that he left behind him when he began to understand the slow cheetah. That is why there is a "Merry old sound" going on there. Now that the old ways of running all the time are dead and buried "It's on today". This could also be him expressing his gratitude to Hillel for teaching him how the path of drug addiction often ends, and for giving him a wake up call to get out of it. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Slow Cheetah Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well, This is what I get from this song. First he's talking about himself and about his drug addiction and how he realised it was not a good stuation to be in. He is still thankful for it, though, because he says: "I had a chance to break." It was a chance, and he took it, and he is here now singing a great song about it. The slow cheetah is a symbol of how he realised that you needn't always be ahead of everyone else. You need to focus on yourself and find your personal peace. The cheetah arrives at his forest and: "It's on today." The slow cheetah is a very positive image, "It's so euphoric, no matter what they say." He doesn't care what anyone else thinks, he knows the wisdom of the slow cheetah. The slow cheetah is another way of saying, "Get out of the rat race." The mysterious girl verse is also about looking inside and past what you see on someones exterior. Why is she dressed like a wedding cake? That is why she is mysterious. Instead of running away from life's mysteries he chooses to accept them. This also shows a powerful insight into the supposed mystery of women. Then he sings about a totally transparent girl who spent her life trying to shape her exterior to match the magazine image. The sadness of this situation is emphasized by her paying for her illusionary world with her hard earned dollars. She is stuck in a self perpetuating cycle. He is kindly putting this phenomenon into words to help people extricate themselves from it. Then he's saying how everyone: "Talk, talk, talks their life away". Another pointer to look inside at your thoughts instead of trying to distract yourself with your own words. The funeral march is a: "Merry old sound." Here, he is showing how death needn't be a mournful thing and symbolically, of course, death can be just ending of old ways and beginning of new ways. In other words, a death of a mind pattern. If it was a destructive mind patern then death in this case is a very positive thing. This is what he is doing with his own music, showing how his old ways died to make way for new ways and it all happened because he understood the slow cheetah. |
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