@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
I got my back to the sun 'cause the light is too intense
I can see what everybody in the world is up against
You can't turn back you can't come back, sometimes we push too far
One day you'll open up your eyes and you'll see where we are
Sugar Baby get on down the road
You ain't got no brains, no how
You went years without me
Might as well keep going now
Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff
Plenty of places to hide things here if you want to hide 'em bad enough
I'm staying with Aunt Sally, but you know, she's not really my aunt
Some of these memories you can learn to live with and some of them you can't
Sugar Baby get on down the line
You ain't got no brains, no how
You went years without me
You might as well keep going now
The ladies down in Darktown, they're doing the Darktown Strut
You always got to be prepared but you never know for what
There ain't no limit to the amount of trouble women bring
Love is pleasing, love is teasing, love's not an evil thing
Sugar Baby, get on down the road
You ain't got no brains, no how
You went years without me
Might as well keep going now
Every moment of existence seems like some dirty trick
Happiness can come suddenly and leave just as quick
Any minute of the day the bubble could burst
Try to make things better
For someone, sometimes you just end up making it a thousand times worse
Sugar Baby, get on down the road
You ain't got no brains no how
You went years without me
Might as well keep going now
Your charms have broken many a heart and mine is surely one
You got a way of tearing a world apart, love, see what you done
Just as sure as we're living, just as sure as you're born
Look up, look up seek your Maker 'fore Gabriel blows his horn
Sugar Baby, get on down the line
You ain't got no sense, no how
You went years without me
Might as well keep going now
I can see what everybody in the world is up against
You can't turn back you can't come back, sometimes we push too far
One day you'll open up your eyes and you'll see where we are
Sugar Baby get on down the road
You ain't got no brains, no how
You went years without me
Might as well keep going now
Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff
Plenty of places to hide things here if you want to hide 'em bad enough
I'm staying with Aunt Sally, but you know, she's not really my aunt
Some of these memories you can learn to live with and some of them you can't
Sugar Baby get on down the line
You ain't got no brains, no how
You went years without me
You might as well keep going now
The ladies down in Darktown, they're doing the Darktown Strut
You always got to be prepared but you never know for what
There ain't no limit to the amount of trouble women bring
Love is pleasing, love is teasing, love's not an evil thing
Sugar Baby, get on down the road
You ain't got no brains, no how
You went years without me
Might as well keep going now
Every moment of existence seems like some dirty trick
Happiness can come suddenly and leave just as quick
Any minute of the day the bubble could burst
Try to make things better
For someone, sometimes you just end up making it a thousand times worse
Sugar Baby, get on down the road
You ain't got no brains no how
You went years without me
Might as well keep going now
Your charms have broken many a heart and mine is surely one
You got a way of tearing a world apart, love, see what you done
Just as sure as we're living, just as sure as you're born
Look up, look up seek your Maker 'fore Gabriel blows his horn
Sugar Baby, get on down the line
You ain't got no sense, no how
You went years without me
Might as well keep going now
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Sugar Baby Lyrics as written by Bob Dylan
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Discovered this song like an hour before. Being a big Dylan buff, whatever he does speaks to me. This song is pretty cool too. The song is pretty much self explanatory. Probably some Biblical references are hiding here and there, someone with a knowledge in that field might wanna enlighten us.
The theological character of this song becomes evident from the following line : Look up, look up - seek your Maker - 'fore Gabriel blows his horn<br /> <br /> This implies that there is a maker who will call to account in the future, which may happen unexpectedly even for those who believe in him. The judgment will be initiated by Gabriel blowing his horn. This refers to 1.Corinthians 15,52: in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (This is also cited in Handel’s Messiah).<br /> <br /> The last book of the bible called Revelation describes in mysterious pictures a plan of God, represented by a book sealed with seven seals that could not be realized before Jesus died, which is expressed as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals (chapter 5). Each seal opens a new phase of history. The seventh seal brings seven trumpets given to angels (chapter 8). Each trumpet brings a new type of global war. Gabriel’s horn stands for the last of these seven trumpets. Chapter 10,7 reads: but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets.<br /> <br /> The believers are addressed as Sugar Baby. The bible speaks more of Christianity as the body of Jesus than of Christianity as his bride. For example 1.Corinthians 12,27: Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. - However, the characterization of Christianity as Jesus’ bride can be found in several more Bob Dylan songs: Sweetheart like you, When the night comes falling from the sky, perhaps Cry a While and the scenery of The groom’s still waiting at the altar.<br /> <br /> The initial report on creation in the bible (Genesis 1) ends with: Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. This is followed by a detailed view on the creation of Eve, where unexpectedly something was not good: It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him. This leads further to a statement cited by Paul in Ephesians 5,31 and characterized by him as a great mystery: For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. Paul understood it tentatively as a prediction of what Jesus did for not staying alone.<br /> <br /> I hope this is sufficient, though not too long.<br />