| Robert Johnson – Kindhearted Woman Blues Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This seems to be about the unnecessary paranoia that we sometimes (always) have with relationships that seem too good to last. Amazing | |
| Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I agree with the God-Jesus idea, but in a sense, it could also be a forecast of the impact that Dylan knows he will have on the world. In a press conference in late 1965-early 1966, with regard to his "going electric", he claims to have known for a long time that he was going to do it, how he was going to do it, and how people would react. In an interview with 60 Minutes, he claimed to have made a deal with some higher power to achieve what he achieved in his songwriting... This song is two things. It's an announcement to the world that Bob Dylan has arrived. No coincidence that Bob's finest work begins with this album, Freewheelin'. He has entered a period of fruitful creativity and intellectual growth, and he is about to explode and he knows it. And he sees so much wrong with the world and he knows that he has the talent and good works to help solve some of these problems. Secondly, it's a call to ordinary people to take responsibility and assume Jesus's position in this song. In the last verse, he vows to travel into the hearts of people and make things better. Bob is saying that we can, too. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – The Stars of Track and Field Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I agree that the girl's sexuality is in question, as is the nature of her promiscuity, but I don't agree that either of these are the focus of the song. Think about the narrator...he (or she, but I think it's a he) attempts to present himself as somewhat neutral and without any emotional investment, ("a boy I never rated") but it's clear that he has a deep lust for this girl ("and feel the city air run past your body"). I think that everything that we learn about the girl's lifestyle ("kissing girls in English at the back of the stairs", "you always get your way") is just speculation on the part of the narrator. I think this is a song about the paranoia that you feel when you long for someone you can't have. This narrator is someone who is not athletic and sees the beauty in athletes, but has become so infatuated with this girl that he is consumed by the idea that athletes are beautiful people. He wants her so badly, yet still questions his own sexuality (here "a boy I never rated" might have more meanings than one) that he reflects this upon his ideal of her. It's a song about feeling sexually sidelined, and not knowing who or what to blame. Who knows |
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