White Ladder

White Ladder comes from Dylan's A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall- I saw a white ladder all covered with water.. the rest of the song doesn't mean too much. You figure it out.

Okay, so what exactly did Dylan mean? I think this song represents someone who is pretty f**ked up on substances. David Gray has made no big secret of his involvement with such ("Betty Ford, won't you be my valentine?"). "Don't wanna feel tonight?" Most of us are familiar with the perfect solution to that problem. White ladder could be cocaine. I am not condemning Gray here. He simply has a great way of putting feelings into songs. This one is about forgetting.

These lyrics are wrong. The correct lyrics are as follows:

White ladder Water and wine Forever crying Oh time Don't wanna fail tonight There's no rhyme or reason to love This sweet love

White river Thunder and war How many time Oh no Don't wanna fail no more Ther's no rhyme or reason to love This sweet, sweet love

To the night another body To the night another name To the night another valentine A burning flame To the night another body To the night another name To the night another valentine A burning flame

Tall order Tremble inside Forever crying Oh my Yeah Yeah Yeah Dont wanna fail tonight There's no rhyme or reason to love This sweet, sweet love

To the night another body To the night another name To the night another valentine A burning flame To the night another body To the night another name To the night another valentine A burning flame To the night another body To the night another name To the night another valentine A burning flame

White ladder Water and wine Don't wanna fail tonight

Bored of life as it seems (to the night...to the night...to the night...) also the "I,m bored"-way of singing....the best is "There's no rhyme or reason to life... This sweet life" both sarcastic and ironic. nice song

All possibilities I'm sure. However, David said himself that the lyrics to this song are merely random ramblings that rhymed and fit the pre-written song. As for the term "White Ladder".... I highly doubt it refers to cocaine. True, it was a Dylan lyric, but in the Album "Sell, Sell, Sell", Gray used it as merely a reference to a person's spine. As far as for it's deeper meanings, Gray has said that, to him, it was, like the lyrics to the song, a pretty little phrase that is far too often over-analyzed and honestly has little meaning.

That seems to me to be fairly insulting to his listeners, but then maybe songwriters write about nothing all the time. Nonsense worth listening to. I am disappointed.

Lyrics drummed up to fit with a pre written song? The music is too simplistic for this to be true. This song is about a string of one nighters.

To the night another body To the night another name To the night another valentine ..... White ladder Water and wine Don't wanna feel tonight

Is that a Rolling Stones sample at the beginning?

theres a lot of biblical symbolism in this song..first the white ladder is the tree of life..found in the bible or jacobs ladder..its spiritual..and the ladder is found on the mountaintop of God..the ladder has twelve rungs. each denoting a different aspect of self. each teaches contrast of truth found in life....water (jesus) and wine(Holy Spirit). mankind lives in darkness..ie the night. another body, another name, another valentine and last the burning flame...thats the body dening the loves the world has formerly to offer the new spirit while traveling up the ladder..really its the spirit passing through the flaming sword found when going back into "paradise"...most of davids songs are littered with these symbols.. another thought on the white ladder..try thinking of the "shaft of light" that traveled out of the jewish tabernacle into heaven.. when you think of the burning flame..well your spirit is inside of it. wether your in pain or your a part of the flame. (climbing "up" the flame). all christians fight this battle of spirit versus flesh..this is daves statement..kinda like "babylon"

theres a lot of biblical symbolism in this song..first the white ladder is the tree of life..found in the bible or jacobs ladder..its spiritual..and the ladder is found on the mountaintop of God..the ladder has twelve rungs. each denoting a different aspect of self. each teaches contrast of truth found in life....water (jesus) and wine(Holy Spirit). mankind lives in darkness..ie the night. another body, another name, another valentine and last the burning flame...thats the body dening the loves the world has formerly to offer the new spirit while traveling up the ladder..really its the spirit passing through the flaming sword found when going back into "paradise"...most of davids songs are littered with these symbols.. another thought on the white ladder..try thinking of the "shaft of light" that traveled out of the jewish tabernacle into heaven.. when you think of the burning flame..well your spirit is inside of it. wether your in pain or your a part of the flame. (climbing "up" the flame). all christians fight this battle of spirit versus flesh..this is daves statement..kinda like "babylon"