| Bob Dylan – It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Interesting and intelligent comments; we are fortunate to have been contemporaries of Bob Dylan; it is similar to the privilege of being alive in 1600 and watching Shakespeare play the ghost in Hamlet at the Globe Theatre. We are spectators to history. | |
| The Doors – Waiting For The Sun Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Here is a teaser for you all, and I pay my respects to the interesting comments which I have read! Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison are America's greatest poets, and rank with Shakespeare, the latter being at his time looked down upon by the literary establishment; as were Bob Dylan (in the beginning of his career) and Morrison. All three are now, or will be recognised as part of the great literary canon of the English language. The "song and dance man" Bob Dylan is being touted as a candidate for a Nobel Prize for literature and Morrison's time will come, because like Bob Dylan he has become a fount for many a doctoral thesis by students of literature. To cut to the teaser, Morrison was so widely read he often used quotes from great books or authors. In the Popul Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Quiche Maya, from the translation of Adrian Recinos (University of Oklahoma Press), it reads, "Our first mothers and fathers did not yet have wood or stonesto keep, but their hearts were tired of waiting for the sun." | |
| Ma Rainey – See See Rider Blues Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| You really feel the sadness and anger at her betrayal by her lover, and as we know these lyrics like dna have spiralled down through time. | |
| The Doors – Shaman's Blues Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It is straightforward- there will never be another one, like you! There will never be another one who can do the things you do! This is straight to the spirit of the hearer. Why is the shaman blue? Well did you stop consider....do you remember, will you stop, the pain? He reiterates, there will never be another one, like you. Everyone has felt the "cold grinding grizzly bear jaws hot on their heels" but "the whole world is a saviour", not one thing, but "the whole world" and who could ever ask for more? This song is a magnificent gift of insight to his fellow travellers, and he asks you to think, "How you must think and wonder How I must feel. Out on the meadows While you're on the field. I'm alone for you. And I cry." I can see why religious maniacs would see these as referenes to a deity, but Jim is saying, and I repeat, the whole world, not Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed alone but the whole world, while you live, is your saviour. Get it? Read more at http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/35139/#dMX7wejfgyCvjKwl.99 |
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| Bob Dylan – Desolation Row Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I enjoyed your intelligent comment. It is a deep mine of language to which this great genius, or as David Bowie called him , "the super brow" took us all, and we are still enjoying the exploration. As he said, "all these people that you mentioned, I know them, they're quite lame, I had to rearrange their faces, and give them all another name." The essence of symbolism is using disparate word images to set these ideas flowing in our minds. Next one in line to the crown was Jim Morrison who has followed Bob as a endless source of mystery and the fount of many a doctoral thesis by those who marvel and describe but can't create. | |
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