| Bob Dylan – Neighborhood Bully Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[AsafN:14415] Oh god another mainstream media non-thinker who has swallowed a lifetime of lies. Israel is a racist supremist state of criminals. | |
| Bob Dylan – Neighborhood Bully Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[sansworld:14414] What kind of rubbish is that? The US has sent huge forces to the Mid East on behalf of Israel who want Iraq and Syria knocked out. Israel is a racist state. Stop your Jew run mainstream media lies. People are waking up to this shameful charade Israel plays. | |
| Bob Dylan – Neighborhood Bully Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[ratanx:14413] What an ill-informed piece of garbage your comment is. Zionist Israel is indeed a neighborhood bully and a scourge to every human on earth. They dominate public opinion in the US with their propaganda and lies and media ownership and control. They dominate the banking industry and have most of the world hooked up to their big fat Ponzi scheme. Israel is a racist, supremist state run by racists who have been cucking the US for years now. And you wouldn't know any better because you've been trained by the media all your life. Shame on your lack of awareness. | |
| Bob Dylan – Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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**** Verse 3....I mean "is complicated" Sorry...I'm a few beers in. Fuck work |
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| Bob Dylan – Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This is what I think: Verse 1...Dylan ditches preconceived notions. He meets a woman who has a child out of wedlock (big deal back in those days) but the woman is ok with it. She is not beaten down or encumbered as a single mother. He sees she is free. She flippantly says that love is 'just a four letter word'. She shrugs off her difficult situation. Verse 2...The woman is on the phone perhaps, or in conversation with the father of her child They are arguing. Maybe he is trying to win her back. His love she doesn't want. She doesn't believe in him. All he says is 'words'. Dylan realizes they are talking about an idea of love, with a child involved. He realizes tha his idea of 'love' is perhaps not the same as theirs. Their idea of love has a dimension he knows nothing about. That's why he 'kept his mouth shut'. Verse 3...he has a revelation about attitude...about the strength of the woman to go it alone. He dismisses himself but they/ she doesn't notice. They don;t notice him because they are concerned with a stage of life that he is an infant to: having a child. He hears what she says to the father of her child. He is energized/ inspired by her strength. She doesn't want this man. He wants to find someone else who shares his realization of the spirit in the woman/ mothers mind...to be independent...to take on life as a single mother...to not slave herself to someone she obviously does not love. It's inspirational for Dylan. He is looking to strip away all of his preconceived notions...starting with the idea that a woman will submit to a man. He wants to find a place where this kind of freedom of thinking is shared. He believed in 'love' before this...but now he realizes that 'love' is not so complicated. He thought that there would be nothing more absurd than to think that love is just a 4 letter word. A true believer in 'love'. But he knows better now. Verse 4...he can't say or interpret exactly what the relationship/ malfunctioning relationship is between the mother and the father of her child...he can only interpret their/ her words in terms of his life and how what they say impacts on his thoughts. He had thought of love as kind of foolproof...love itself to be virtuous and true. But now he does not believe that. He sees that love can come and then go just as fast. It can touch a couple but then leave them just as quick. Love is free. It belongs to no-one. He realizes that his mistakes are in his perceptions. His perceptions are not 'the thing'. He knows now that love is a casual word, especially on the lips of those who do not really understand the nature of love...such as the man and woman of the story who have had a child out of wedlock and who realize (especially the woman) that they do not love each other. Verse 5...I think Joan Baez wrote the last verse....and of course it's all about Dylan. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – May This Be Love Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This is just about Jimi saying that he has a guard a protection and shield from the bullshit of life. It's the waterfall that can shield out all the bullshit of an inauthentic life...the inauthentic life. He is safe...safe from life's bullshit and within there is love. That's all as far as I can see. It's fucking beautiful. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Dandelion Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song could be about the ritualistic murder of children | |
| Bob Dylan – Lay Down Your Weary Tune Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I've been a BD fan for a while now. Knew OF this song, but never really listened to it. Bored at work....read the lyrics....listened on youtube. What a gorgeous song. This was written back in the day when Dylan was super charged with a feel for what is right and what is just. He was so attuned to the real warmth of things amidst a cold or crazy world. He had a feel and touch for arcing his songs around that kind of feeling. His melodies did it, his voice did it, his harmonica did it and if that wasn't enough...he wrote lyrics of beauty and truth and skill and quality. Lay Down Your Weary Tune, like someone posted earlier is basically a song where the singer stands in awe of creation...of earth, of nature. He stands in awe, humbled in his own attempts...in his own struggles to express himself. It says that the true melodies are played by the trees and the oceans, the mornings and the sky...and what's more, they don't need applause. Beauty and life is in nature and sometimes, when we can't express it, that's where we should look. That Bob Dylan managed to use the theme of a struggle for expression in a song about where to find true expression...and have the song be expressive....well that's pretty damn good. I think 'awe' is the wrong word to use. He doesn't really stand in awe...he stands in a more subtle way...something like the way a tired child might come to his mother's arms...fall to her and be held, eyes half closed. Or like someone who's walked a long way and finally come home. So I think standing in 'awe' is wrong...that kind of implies some kind of mejesty...when really it's something more humble than that...it's standing in love maybe....I don't know It's a great song. I need more time to think about it. I only just heard it today. |
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| Bob Dylan – Heart of Mine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I love this song. Seems to be about his longing for a girl he knows doesn't want him. He tells himself not to show his hand so to speak. Don't declare your love for her because she isn't interested. Makes me think of a girl I love right now. So sad. | |
| Bob Dylan – Highlands Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The song sounds to me like the lament or the helplessness of someone who has been everywhere, seen everything and still hasn't worked it out...still can't find peace...can't find what it's all about....but he'll keep trying, and keep trying until he finally gets to where it's at and what it's all about. It's a weary song, a tired song and it's also a very funny song. | |
| Bob Dylan – Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The last stanza says that the world...nature is what we have...god is earth...not somehting in the sky...not heaven...it's here, right in front of us if we know where to look....it's held us all our life, sustained us, it won't leave us....the world, nature, this planet....from it we come...it's beautiful...earthy...natural....not fake, authentic, real, alive, majestic, magnificent....that's what I think anyway | |
| Bob Dylan – Percy's Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| One of the most gorgeous resigned helplessness songs you'll ever hear in your life | |
| Bob Dylan – Mama, You Been on My Mind Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Listened to it about 50 times in a row I should have said. | |
| Bob Dylan – Mama, You Been on My Mind Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I've just listened to the Rolling Thunder 1975 live with joan Baez version of this song. I'm so sad. I wish I could put into words the things that I feel. Gorgeous, mad, brilliant song. About a guy thinking more about a girl than she's thinking about him. Oh man. So perfect for me right now. |
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| George Harrison – All Those Years Ago Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| A lament for John Lennon as sung by his younger mate George. I'm guessing the devil's best friend was Chapman | |
| Sandie Shaw – Puppet On A String Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The most challenging part of the deconstruction of this lyric is for you to be able to decode the intricacies of the, as I have dubbed it, "puppet metaphor". If you can do this. You're good to go. And you will win money |
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| Commuter – Young Hearts Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It sounds to me like, and by the way I love this song, maybe a young guy or a girl...probably a guy has had a fight with his partner and has sped off in a car in anger...but he's lost control, crashed and killed himself. That's not exactly it, but it's somehting like that |
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| Lily Allen – Everything's Just Wonderful Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Screw who we screw...means fucking people over. Everyone is out for themselves. No one alive is human. The entire world has a mental disease. | |
| Lily Allen – Not Big Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Sounds like her bf was a little nervous the first time and couldn't get it up. She must have liked him lots to write a song about him. He must have had an impact. Not a big impact, mind you |
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| Lily Allen – Alfie Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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So it's sampled from Puppet On A String by Sandie Shaw...and the film clip has a puppet? That's cool. I think this song is about drugs |
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| Bic Runga – Sway Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Great song. Love is silly though...love for another person that is. It's fool's gold. But when you're young it's pretty sweet. When you're older you have other fish to fry. | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is about male bravado | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Drifting Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think it's about Jimi's suspicion that there's something more to life than death and taxes and all the crap the majority of people worship. There's something out there, but he doesn't exactly know how to get to it...that's why he's drifting. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Killing Floor Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's about a guy who thinks he should have left his woman a while ago. But I don't really know what it means by 'crying on that killing floor'. Maybe the killing floor is the crappy lino in their cheap unit kitchen where there are several dead cockaroaches. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Out Of Time Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| JumpyJack...have you got anything to add? | |
| The Rolling Stones – Waiting On A Friend Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The sax is ok...but every time I hear sax I think Kenny G, and it's ruined for me. Sax is such a cheesy sounding instrument to me. Anyway, the song isn't about homosexuality.Why do people have to be so graphic, like perverts on the wall? Didn't you hear the lyrics? "Making love and breaking hearts It is a game for youth" The song's about tiredness and weariness. It's about wishing for no more bullshit. It's about finding someone who expects nothing of you. Maybe even someone you can just sit with and don't even have to say a word to. The song is about the island you want to get to after an age of swimming in a rough and vast ocean. It's not about bending some guy over and doing up the bum, you perverts. And to all the teenage psuedo analysts, it's not about drugs, for fck sake ok. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Far Away Eyes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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She's there, but she's not there...she's distant and detached...she's a bit doughey...she's not gonna ask questions. She's a bit lost...maybe she can be seen to be someone innocent...someone without as many troubles as you. That's what I think. |
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| The Beatles – Yellow Submarine Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song is directed at the masses of dumb people...the herd, the sheep. "We all live in a yellow Sub." = heads in the sand. Yellow = the colour of the coward. "We live the life of ease" = we live devoid of truth, but of simple minded comforts. It's a take anyway. |
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| Bob Dylan – My Back Pages Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yeah I think it's about some sort of realisation. There's evidence in the song that he kind of resents his reading or that he ate up what he read and resented that he thought he knew it all. | |
| Bob Dylan – George Jackson Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The lyrics are probably pretty easy to understand. It's pretty straight forward. I always assumed it was about a real incident where a man was killed by bigotts for no reason. There's the whole prisoner/ guard metaphor, the scared of his power, frightened of his love...I see power as anything but physical power in this case. And love as being something alien to bigotts. I love the song. The backup singers are incredible. |
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| Bob Dylan – Chimes of Freedom Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this song is written from the point of view of a young person who is on the cusp of youthful optimism and love of life, and a realisation of all the pain and unfairness that exists in the world. It's very bittersweet. | |
| Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I always imagine Dylan wrote this song from the point of view of a mother. | |
| Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan's Blues Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think it's about freedom. Like from the point of view of someone who sees so many people tied and slaved to so many chains...when really, there aren't any laws. You are free. | |
| Bob Dylan – Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Does anyone know if Bob Dylan ever recorded a version? Brilliant song and a sublime version by Baez. |
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