| Paul Simon – Hearts And Bones Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I read in Wikipedia that this song was written before Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher were married in 1983. They had an on and off again relationship from 1977-1983 and Simon copyrighted the song in 1982. She did not have any children with Paul Simon. Anyway the song is intriguing to me. Why would he marry her when he knew they were on the descending arc of a love affair? "On the last leg of the journey They started a long time ago The arc of a love affair". It appears to me that there is something missing in the relationship. The phrase "one and a half Jews", the wandering, the Blood of Christ, rainbow in the desert. You know where is the other half?, what is the destination, the blood of Christ, and the rain that would come with a rainbow. Also the difference are highlighted, she is west coast, he is east coast. The marriage is outrageous, she is a burning bride and he is burned, love is like being struck by lightning. But mostly, hearts and bones. Hearts are a symbol of life and love and action. Bones are a symbol of death. They don't really swirl together to make something that won't come undone. They need muscle and sinew, which don't sing very well. But, Simon seems to be mourning this lost relationship. The hearts and bones reminds me of dry bones in the desert in the book of Ezekiel. It would take a miracle to keep these two together. It seems outrageous to marry someone when you have recognized that the end of the love affair is coming. Simon says, she doesn't know about Mexico and the freedom it represents. He cannot love her where she is, but only while wandering. This line makes it even more amazing that they got married. Lightning struck and a swirling confusion of hearts and bones, but divorce seems inevitable. |
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| Bob Dylan – I Want You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I would like to explore that Dylan the Poet is talking about a larger theme of the 60s sexual revolution. I think the theme is "True Love is dead." The guilty undertaker (sexual revolution)signs that True Love is dead. The lonesome organ grinder is separated and gets no true love just a coin or two. The silver saxophones grease the music of bars and hook up scenes. The church bells and the wedding bells are cracked and the washed out horns are no longer triumphantly proclaimin true love. The poet cannot accept it... it's not that way, I wasnt born into the generation in which true love died. I want you.. I want true love. Drunken Politician leaps to his suicide in the street. No love for politicians. Mothers weep for children lost to the streets and the revolution. Saviours are sleeping but they would provide True Love. They expect me the poet to open the gate of true love again, but Dylan's cup is broken. He does not have true love and wants it so bad. All my father's I feel refers to Dylan's poetical influences. The modernist poets disavow true love and embrace science and disdain the romantic poets. The daughter's of the sexual revolution are putting him down because he is romantically proclaiming that he wants True Love. They put him down because they are free, now from "True Love." He moves down the social ladder to the Queen of Spades, maybe a bar or hotel, the chambermaid, the hotel room maid or the waitress. He is not afraid to look at her to see if she still believe in True Love. She understands and agrees about True Love. She knows that he wants True Love but he does not want it with her. The Queen of Spades could be a symbol of death. She wants true love but for him it would be death with the chambermaid. So, it does not matter because she is not part of the sexual revolutionaries. Dancing child with His suit could be Cupid or Pan with his Pan flute. He is taking away Cupid's flute because he doesn't want just lust or to temporarily be in capricious love. He took away the flute and wasn't that cute to him. He took away the lust flute and wants True Love. He wants the real thing. This is just my humble opinion of what this poem is about. I dont claim to have anything other than my own point of view about this poem. I love this poem and most everything Bob Dylan wrote. I think of him as a "Great" poet. Paul |
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