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| Bob Dylan – Desolation Row Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i am not sure about when exactly the album came out but the songs were written prior to his crash. he performed some of them, this on in particular, on his '66 tour which preceded the accident. other than that, i think your analysis is spot on. |
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| Bob Dylan – Ballad of a Thin Man Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I always felt that this song was about the media, in particularly journalists. if you watch the interviews with bob dylan you see that they often asked him obsurd questions regarding the meaning of everything he said or did. i believe it is a taunt at them both lyrically and in general. In the lyrics there are a lot of questions asked with somewhat cryptic answers in response. This was often the case during those sessions. |
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| Bob Dylan – Lay Down Your Weary Tune Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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i was reading "Positively Fourth Street" by David Hadju and he wrote that Dylan actually wrote this song while he was living in California with Joan Baez. One night he and Richard Farina went surfing in the moonlight and Dylan came back and wrote this song in one sitting. He [Hadju] seemed to imply that it Dylan was writing about Joan Baez and that he is critiquing her |
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