God Don't Make Lonely Girls

First of all, I don't think this song is necessarily from Jakob Dylan's perspective. He's written a lot of songs about fictional characters. I think this is a story about a very lonely man falling in love with a stripper. If he really does "get the girl" at the end, then it's kind of a sweet song about a diamond in a rough, managing to love in a sleazy situation, the whole "Pretty Woman"-prostitute-with-a-heart-of-gold thing. But if he doesn't get the girl and he's just dreaming about what he'd do if she went home with him, the song becomes more of a sad story about how lonely he is and how these peep shows prey on his loneliness by dangling an illusion in front of his face.

This song is amazing. It's about a girl he sees at a peep show (I think everyone knows what that is), and he sorta falls in love with her. He thinks she deserves a lot better than what she has. Eventually he gets her to come home with him. Where things go from there I guess is up in the air, but he's trying to give her a new start.

I love this song...just the tune, the words, the meaning...everything!

This song is awesome.

I think this song is about fantasizing about the woman at the peep show being the perfect girl - I don't think he actually acts on it. Professional girls don't go home with their patrons or let them know them, unless of course, you're Jakob Dylan :-)

I wonder if (A) he really thinks this way or (B) if this song is just sarcasm. If (A) is the case, then this song is really corny, but sweet at the same time. If he's being sarcastic by saying that he is picturing this sluttish-looking girl from a peep show as a wholesome, good-hearted female, then I suppose it's kind of funny. I find it hard to believe, though, that a guy can see a peep show and change the images completely in his head rather than just think about sex, so option B makes much more sense.

I don't think the song is exactly sarcasm, but it's probably a representation of wishful thinking at its finest. (Compare The Who's "Trick of the Light", Elton John's "Island Girl", The Police's "Roxanne" for other knight-in-shining-armor scenarios.)

It's not sarcastic, it's a fictional character. I agree (and also think it's pretty unambiguous) that it's about how a man is projecting his fantasies onto a woman. He clearly doesn't care about her as a real individual human being. He only wants to mold her into a role that fits his self-serving fantasy. That's kind of why he's at a peep show.

Compare this with his song that goes "You don't have to be my girl, you don't have to be his girl, you can always be your own girl." This song is the exact and polar opposite of that one.