| Bob Dylan – I Want You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I do not see that each stanza is a continuation of the previous but varied types of love. In order to understand this part, it is important to know that Dylan wrote this song during the Viet Nam conflict. 'The drunken politician leaps' is that they are drunk with the power over other people's lives, 'upon the street where mothers weep,' can be interpreted as the very ones he the politician proclaims to protect is done so by sacrificing the sons of mothers off to war. 'And the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.' These 'saviors' again are those who are part of the political machine and who really have no idea what is going on other then they foist upon themselves as 'saviors', the solution to the ignorant masses. Yet they wait for you, meaning the soldiers are the key to their success. But the soldiers don't know even to what purpose they are fighting 'and wait for them to interupt...' meaning they hope the power brokers will come out of their drunken stupor before they, the soldier, has to be '...drinkin' from my broken cup...' This is clearly is in reference to Christ asking God to have the cup be taken away, yet it was for this very purpose he came to earth to take the cup for the salvation of mankind. I believe the 'broken cup' signifies that the purpose for which he the soldier is called to die is not a pure one but 'broken' because it is based on the whimsy of political machinations. 'And ask me to open up the gate for you' I believe this signifies the gate can only be open by the soldier in order for the politician to enter to the next arena of his success. Ultimately, this is about love 'where mothers weep'. A love so powerful as it is unconsolable knowing her child will never return home and cries on the street, 'I want you... so bad.' |
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| Bob Dylan – I Want You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Here is my spin: A man, a lover lost his wife and refuses the necessary steps to deal with it. True love was lost. The 'undertaker' sees this and is 'guilty' how he himself reacts to the inevitable monochromatic world of death. 'The lonesome organ grinder' is the lover who realizes that he can no longer entertain and delight his lover and has nothing to offer but tears. The 'silver saxophnes' are the instruments of lovers, and say that you need to move on and stop grieving, yet the lover thought that his love for her was eternal so anything afterward would be 'cracked bells', signifying marriage and any celebration would be nothing more than the sound of 'washed out horns' as if to mock his true love that 'blow into my face with scorn' because it wasn't supposed to be like this. He can't reconcile that fact that she is now gone because, 'But it's not that way, I wasn't born to lose you.' And so yearns, 'I want you, I want you, honey I want you... so bad'. I'll keep working on the next stanzas. ibdman |
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