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Days of Wonder Lyrics
Cherry picking through the stars
And falling cannonballs
Waiting for the break of dawn
To start its morning crawl
Polluted rays of filtered light
Tropical and warm
Making shadows through
The snow white resin covered skulls
Happy birthday to the war
Standing by the wall
A rainbow made of stars
Under seven different shades of grey
Spreading out across the arc
Days of wonder spent
Out there killing time
Now this may not leave a mark on me
But I sure as hell was there
Caravanning on the moonlit
Locust covered trail
We came out like a stream of bats
Exploding from the well
Slipping through the whirlpools
Of trees and floating cars
Behind winter coated mule
Down record breaking falls
Into oblivions open jaws
Standing by the wall
A rainbow made of stars
Under seven different shades of grey
Spreading out across the arc
Days of wonder spent
Out there killing time
Now this may not leave a mark on me
But I sure as hell was there
Happy birthday to the war
Days of wonder spent
By a rainbow made of stars
Under seven different shades of grey
Spreading out across the arc
Standing by the wall
Out there killing time
Now this may not leave a mark on me
But I sure as hell was there
Educated under God
To walk a neutral line
Give me neither poverty
Nor riches in my time
Take my body and my mind
My heart is far behind
With one dozen poems in my ears
Ricocheting wild
And falling cannonballs
Waiting for the break of dawn
To start its morning crawl
Polluted rays of filtered light
Tropical and warm
Making shadows through
The snow white resin covered skulls
A rainbow made of stars
Under seven different shades of grey
Spreading out across the arc
Days of wonder spent
Out there killing time
Now this may not leave a mark on me
But I sure as hell was there
Locust covered trail
We came out like a stream of bats
Exploding from the well
Slipping through the whirlpools
Of trees and floating cars
Behind winter coated mule
Down record breaking falls
A rainbow made of stars
Under seven different shades of grey
Spreading out across the arc
Days of wonder spent
Out there killing time
Now this may not leave a mark on me
But I sure as hell was there
By a rainbow made of stars
Under seven different shades of grey
Spreading out across the arc
Standing by the wall
Out there killing time
Now this may not leave a mark on me
But I sure as hell was there
To walk a neutral line
Give me neither poverty
Nor riches in my time
Take my body and my mind
My heart is far behind
With one dozen poems in my ears
Ricocheting wild
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Submitted by
prayingmantis84 On Jun 03, 2005
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This is totally a song about war. I kind of figured it out with the skull line.
It's an anti-war song, I guess. not really sure.
Yes, it's a song about war, and, judging by the tone of the last verse, it's an anti-war song.
What I don't quite understand is why Dylan couples a song about war with so much beautiful natural imagery.
My best guess is that Dylan is trying to drawn our attention to the beauty that we miss while we're busy "killing time" and running "into oblivion's open jaws."
I don't necessarily agree with the anti-war sentiments. "Happy Birthday... to the War." I can't say why, when or where. Perhaps about the end of the Mayan calendar? Or maybe it's a 6-6 to the 8-8 because of some deviant 4-20. Like I said, there's no saying why, when or where. But I absolutely love that line: "the cement on me may walk on me but i sure as hell was there."