| Three Dog Night – Joy To The World Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| the bufo alvarius toad of the southern united states contains dmt and bufotenin which are both psychadelic tryptamines and when extracted toad venom is consumed it leads to, well you know- this song | |
| Bob Dylan – I Shall Be Released Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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he's very well read it's well known come on folks Great Gatsby? I see my light shinin' from the West on to the East let's discuss lepers and crooks for a minute here thats what its about Its about Jay |
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| Bob Dylan – Ballad of a Thin Man Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've always thought of this song as being about one of the thinnest men I've ever seen -Bob Dylan during his amphetadmine stage I imagine Dylan underwent even more intense stages of self-analyzation and depression that usual, and this song sort of just attacks himself and what he's become Mr. Jones is just generic obviously |
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| Bob Dylan – Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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can I throw something radical out here? please give me some thoughts Jack Frost, Jack Fate, Jack of Hearts all pseudonyms for Bobby himself? he is a jack of all trades and uses the surname Frost as a producer, the surname Fate in the movie Masked and Anonymous, and perhaps the Jack of Hearts as his pen name in this song Lily, rosemary and the Jack of Hearts from Blood on the Tracks delivers a story in a interesting way, through a deck of cards Dylan, knowledgable about gambling has associated each character with a card Lily the Ace Jim the Diamond King Rosemary the Queen the Jack of Hearts obviously the King and Queen should be coupled, as they are in the beginning, but in a game such as blackjack, the Ace is of more value to the king than the queen , the king couples with the ace but the jack is of more value to the ace than the king the ace turns to the jack regardless of all that stuff and the scematic details of the story Dylan, who calls himself the great thief had problems with his wife Sarah at this time and the omnipresent Joan Baez was on tour with him, Joan I believe at this time was married, I think all these personal intricacies played a huge part in the writing of this song centered around Dylan himself as the Jack of Hearts The many facets of which Im not sure, but would like to see some feedback on this line of thought |
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| Bob Dylan – Gates of Eden Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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religion is bad, that's what you take from this song? religion to me in this song seems nearly irrelevant, there are no truths outside the Gates of Utopia, the Gates of perfection, The Gates of the ground our own sins have sacrificed We as a race and as an ongoing cancer to ourselves are the ones that have forsaken paradise, with selfishness and envy, with greed and with hatred Is religion a part of that, sure as it stands along side egregious economical diversity as one of the things men kill for, for everything one man kills for there is something one man dies for, so many deaths have no meaning and so much killing has no reason, no reason that would exist inside the Gates of Eden |
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| Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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well it is about John Wesley Hardin and is admittedly one of Dylan's most lackluster lyrical efforts personally i enjoy the song a great deal and think the lyrics are interesting, but they lack the true social commentary of Dylan's better folk works, John Wesley Hardin wasn't born in Cheney county and he would probably hurt an honest man, he was renowned in history as 'the meanest man alive' and the song is about that outlaw and the outlaw life Dylan said in an interview that Hardin as a figure interested him and he had a tune that he really liked, when he sat down to write it he just kind of fumbled a bit, but then he said, in an attempt not to make the song seem like just a filler he made it the album title and lead off song that's bobby |
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| Bob Dylan – 4th Time Around Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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yeah its about prostitution, I think it's more of a aimed remark at Lennon then you guy may think 4th time around is supposedly a reference to Dylan saying the Beatles had stolen three songs from him the meaning of stolen there is loose, but he believes Norwegian wood, Hide your love away and one other song that I can't remember were more his than theirs, whatever that may mean 4th time around is him going a little on their side of the line, maybe the central focues on prostitution has something to do with the artists using one another, the crutch part certainly does |
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| Bob Dylan – Drifter's Escape Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Someone needs to help me with this one musically and for some intangilbe reason this is decidedly my favorite song of all time, but I can't grasp with clarity it's meaning John Wesley harding as an album is filled with stories varying from biographical to biblical but are similar in their vague nature Drifter's Escape clearly tells the tale of a hobo who has been unjustly or frivolously imprisoned and a cold hearted legal system eventually overpowered by nature SO what does all that mean? Is this a particular tale or a narrative of the human condition? What is the primary comment Dylan wishes to express In the movie Masked and Anonymous which Larry Charles, a Seinfeld writer co wrote with Dylan there is a scene where Dylan's character Jack Fate and his band play the song Meanwhile the character discuss the song's meaning Penelope Cruz states that she loves the songs Dylan plays because they are not precise and they are completely open to interpretation Meanwhile elsewhere John Goodman and Luke Wilson are talking about it Luke Wilson says the song is about trying to get to heaven, stating "you gotta know the route before you start out" but John Goodman concludes the scene stating that the song is written with a Jekyl and Hyde underlying, with Hyde narrating this particular story. that the song is about killing your conscience and accepting debochary as saintly if it please your appetite and your desire is the courtroom that of the law, that of God or that of one single man's psyche? |
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| Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well I was reading the book Dylan's Vision of Sin, not one i would particularly recommend for its criticism but a well-researcehd piece of work nonetheless And what Dylan did was he borrowed the structure from the ballad "Lord Randall" "O where ha you been, Lord Randal, my son? And where ha you been, my handsome young man?" "I ha been at the greenwood; mother, mak my bed soon, For I'm wearied wi hunting, and fain wad lie down. The song was written as previously posted during the Cuban missle crisis and is filled with imagery and metaphor about the the event and the times. The blue eyed son I believe refers to an ideal or archetype of innocence and purity(coming from a Jew mind you). |
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