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| The Cure – Killing an Arab Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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It's definitely about the Camus novel. Robert signed my copy of the book when he toured Australia in 1980. |
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| Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Nice link. Like the interpretation at reasontorock. The problem with this song is that it was recorded incorrectly, something Dylan has admiited and commented on. The third verse should be first, then we know who the two riders are. Dylan has commented that he wants to re record the song with the lyrics in correct order. |
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| Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Reasontorock does a good interpretation but is shackled by the fact that Dylan meant the final verse to be first. The review itself admits confusion as to what is happening there. Nice link. |
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| Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Wow, eyeland!
You are so close as Bob Dylan has mentioned in an interview that he had written the third verse first. It got mucked up in the studio. He stated that he intended to re record the song with the verses in the correct order. As you have said, this solves the problem of who the two riders are. From that starting point the song meaning unravels fairly easily. (The joker is a Jungian archetype, even present in most of Picasso's early cubist works...just look for the harlequin costume.) I do see it as a philosophical piece. The final words now become apocopalyptic, "...the hour is getting late". |
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