Disease of Conceit Lyrics
From the disease of conceit.
Whole lot of people struggling tonight
From the disease of conceit.
Comes right down the highway,
Straight down the line,
Rips into your senses
Through your body and your mind.
Nothing about it that's sweet,
The disease of conceit.
From the disease of conceit,
Whole lot of hearts shaking tonight
From the disease of conceit.
Steps into your room,
Eats your soul,
Over your senses
You have no control.
Ain't nothing too discreet
About of disease of conceit.
From the disease of conceit,
Whole lot of people crying tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Comes right out of nowhere
And you're down for the count
From the outside world,
The pressure will mount,
Turn you into a piece of meat,
The disease of conceit.
That the doctors got no cure
They've done a lot of research on it
But what it is, they're still not sure
From the disease of conceit,
Whole lot of people seeing double tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Give ya delusions of grandeur
And a evil eye
Give you idea that
You're too good to die,
Then they bury you from your head to your feet
From the disease of conceit.
A beautiful exposition on sin.
-Pie
Give you idea that You're too good to die, Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit.
Yeah. I'd like to think Dylan admonishes people against beaviour that isolates them from others. Whether its being religious (Oh Sister), being a schmuck (Like a Rolling Stone), don't be a prude (Lay Lady Lay), or conceipt. On the other hand, he does send the island of fags and gamblers to the bottom in Black Diamond Bay.
Tele evangelist Marvin Gorman's downfall in 86,Jim Baker in 87, & Jimmy Swagart in 88, all fell due to their conceit & moral faliings. Re: Jimmy Sawagart wiki. Dylan wrote this in 89. Dylan's mention of sickness of the soul, delusions of grandeur, and the idea that your to good to die comments was written after tele evangelist Jimmy Swagarts downfall. He mentions a priests transgressions with a prostitute again in The Man With The Black Coat in the same O Mercy album.
Tele evangelist Marvin Gorman's downfall in 86,Jim Baker in 87, & Jimmy Swagart in 88, all fell due to their conceit & moral faliings. Re: Jimmy Sawagart wiki. Dylan wrote this in 89. Dylan's mention of sickness of the soul, delusions of grandeur, and the idea that your to good to die comments was written after tele evangelist Jimmy Swagarts downfall. He mentions a priests transgressions with a prostitute again in The Man With The Black Coat in the same O Mercy album.
A very beautiful song, and like arabhammerhead said, somewhat like Lay Lady Lay I think that song is about conceit as well, and Like A Rolling Stone It shows the emotional evolution of Dylan, too
Like A Rolling Stone is angry, youthful, spite-fulled, vengeful, mean and oppositional toward the girl who is now no longer in the lap of luxury.
Lay Lady Lay is more a middle-aged, everyman view of it, just an honest working-class joe who loves this girl. I love the line "my clothes are dirty but my hands are clean"
And here, he is expanding the idea of conceit into a universal thing. Like the narrator in Like A Rolling Stone, is now suffering from the disease as much as the girl was at one time, and maybe the woman in Lay Lady Lay didn't lay, because she was conceited. And so her and the man in the song both suffer. It ties in everything. Very important song, to me, in the Dylan canon.
Tele evangelist Marvin Gorman's downfall in 86,Jim Baker in 87, & Jimmy Swagart in 88, all fell due to their conceit & moral faliings. Re: Jimmy Sawagart wiki. Dylan wrote this in 89. Dylan's mention of sickness of the soul, delusions of grandeur, and the idea that your to good to die comments was written after tele evangelist Jimmy Swagarts downfall.
This song just shows me who I really am, how rotten my heart is, and my need for mercy. Oh mercy!
Yes, conceit has very much to do with sin. This includes the observation that most religious people are quite confident that their personal problems with sin have essentially been solved. They are sure: A thorough check of convictions (= penance) is certainly of fundamental importance, but only for others. However much their personal “beliefs” deviate from those of others or from the overall evidence in the scriptures: On judgment day the judge day will bow to their versions if they remain free from doubt. What nonsense! They will miss the mark because of this unjustified conviction of safety.
Those who do not need to listen will become deaf. “Over your senses / You have no control.” Do you believe that Assad thinks he is a cruel tyrant? I assume he rather thinks he loves his people and has to protect it from terrorists. There are hundreds around him that confirm this thinking.
Deceit is much more common than you think.