| Bob Dylan – I Want You Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The song is about Dylan's lust for Anita Pallenberg Now your dancing child [Jones liked to dance and was immature] with his Chinese suit [Jones had an oriental fetish and wore Asian and Indian get-ups] He spoke to me, I took his flute [Jones pursued a friendship with Dylan and Dylan responded through passive aggressive behavior of stealing some of Jones' musical instruments] No, I wasn't very cute to him, Was I? [sometimes Dylan would insult Jones, in an uncute manner] But I did it, though, because he lied [Dylan justifies his actions because he doesn't like the way Jones lies to Pallenberg] Because he took you for a ride [Jones mistreated Pallenberg and took her for bad rides] And because time was on his side [this is a reference to a Stones song] I want you, I want you, |
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| Lou Reed – Doin' the Things That We Want To Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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He asked about different songwriters I'd interviewed, and when I mentioned Lou Reed, Dylan talked about Reed's "Doin' the Things That We Want To" and its reference to Sam Shephard's play "Fool For Love." He said that Reed's song had inspired Dylan and Shephard to write a sort of response - which emerged in 1986 as "Brownsville Girl." Dylan said that just as Reed's song opened with the narrator at the play, the Shephard/Dylan song would open with the narrator at the movie. Maybe what's most surprising about Bob Dylan is that once you connect with his vision, everything he says makes sense. http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/85-mar.htm |
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