| The Rolling Stones – Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I don't think they did it for "obvious" reasons (i.e. I guess you are saying that the band's name is in the song). They did it because it is a brilliant song and nobody BUT the Stones could cover this song and rival Dylan's version. | |
| Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This has been one of my favorite songs all (well, most) of my life. I felt vicariously satisfied through the best "telling off " lyrics ever written - directed in my mind to various self absorbed (usually rich) women I have known at different times in my life who I felt deserved to be put in their place and know "How does it feel?" Like a pay-back song it feels good to sing along to, whilst never having the nerve to verbalize your feel the person you imagine singing it to. Then, after all of these decades, I read brettjv's very well substantiated interpretation and I clearly see a completely viable alternative to my previous belief of the meaning of the song. Most interpretations I read seem to reflect the writer's own baggage and it's a stretch to understand how they extrapolated such meanings from the lyrics. But brettjv's interpretation is like realizing that he solved the riddle! (even if I previously didn't think it was a riddle - but rather took the lyrics more literally for so long) His interpretation also fits historically since it has been generally considered that Edie Sedgewick was "Miss Lonely" . She was a beautiful starlet/model from a wealthy family, hobnobbed with the rich and famous etc., and steadily declined into addiction and finally actually married another patient that she met while in a psychiatric hospital after a drug arrest. Eventually she died of an overdose. "Go to him, he calls you, you can't refuse. When you got nothin, nothing to lose..." Makes perfect sense. Brilliant. |
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