| Bob Dylan – Dirge Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think what beer good said is about right. It's about his ambivalence about fame. | |
| Bob Dylan – Absolutely Sweet Marie Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the song is about being frustrated that he can't write a song. Marie is the muse. Where are you, tonight, Muse, when I need you? It's so hard to jump the railroad gate and get the song. The trumpet is his instrument--guitar, piano, whatever--that he's waiting to play it on. The promises are promises of inspiration. Muse or fortune or inspiration--all sort of the same. In this case, he was locked in a room writing up songs at the studio for the album while the musicians waited. Why he didn't have all the songs ready, I don't know. I guess he waits until the last minute. The fever is the the desire to write, the Persian drunkard is the drunkard within that calls him away from his work and that he's having a hard time locking away. A lot of his songs are about his relationship with his art. To live outside the law you must be honest, refers (I think) to speaking the truth when you're making unconventional art. I think he was often unsure whether his more surreal songs were just nonsense or poetically truthful. One person's opinion. |
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