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| Bob Dylan – I Shall Be Released Lyrics
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@[eawgoalie:30957] Yes, exactly! These are levels of meaning here, as you noted. Which is why I think that this is one of Dylan's most sublime and powerful lines. His brilliance should get him a Nobel Prize! (LOL!). |
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| Bob Dylan – I Shall Be Released Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[eawgoalie:30948] I have another, simpler meaning for this line. See the man is in prison, and he is despondent, so he just sits there with his head down and stares at the floor. Now in the proverbial prison cell there is just a small slit in the wall, high above, that lets in light. And when the sun rising in the EAST, the slit in the wall lights up the WEST side of the cell. As the day goes by and the sun travels to the WEST, the last light shines on the EAST side of the cell floor.. So all day long the prisoner just watches the small shaft of light on the floor travel from the "west down to the east". One of Dylan's deepest and sublime lines. |
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