| Bob Dylan – Sweetheart Like You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"But you're right, jassss, it's kind of funny that he would put such an ambiguous line in the song at all." That's Dylan he thrives on vague lyrics, just listen to Mr Tambourine Man. |
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| Bob Dylan – Sweetheart Like You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| Bob Dylan – Sweetheart Like You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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You're about 99% right. On one level it's about Lady Liberty, the spirit that the statue represents. The statue is like a snapshot of that spirit frozen in time. The song describes the descent into "the land of permanent bliss," you can almost taste the sarcasm as he spits out those words describing post modern America where Liberty is abused by decadence & religious zealots. On another level, applying Jungian analysis, she's the female component of the male psyche, the "Anima" who, like Beatriz in Dante's Inferno, is the guide that symbolically leads the soul out of the Inferno through purgatory and, ultimately, to Heaven. You were 100% correct when you said "Great song, from a highly underrated album." |
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