There are two versions of this song - the one which appears on 'Biograph' was recorded with 'The Hawks', later known as 'The Band', and released officially as a single.
A previous version was recorded during the 'Highway 61 Revisited' sessions and accidentally released as 'Positively Fourth Street' in the first pressing of that single. This version is FAR superior, although the lyrics in the chorus use 'come on' instead of the 'use your hands and legs' that appears in the Hawks' version.
Gotta love the use of the word 'genocide'...I'm perplexed, it sounds more like 'jealous-eyed', but Bob was using a lot of wordplay in his songs at this time.
The lyrics sound like a clever invitation to a woman to an affair. It also sounds like it was released as an attempt to appeal to the pop market to effectively follow-up 'Like A Rolling Stone' (not counting 'Positively Fourth Street', which was a well-timed and opportunistic dig).
It's easy to say now, but the H61 session version of 'Crawl' would have been more effective.
@elephant_range Bob used the line 'you gotta lot of nerve to say you are my friend' to open Positively 4th St as well to close out 'Crawl out Your Window'. Same line, two Entirely different meanings. No one else was considering doing things like that, let alone pulling it off. This guy, along with some critics of Bob's stuff, helped introduce me to things like surrealism and multiple meanings.
@elephant_range Bob used the line 'you gotta lot of nerve to say you are my friend' to open Positively 4th St as well to close out 'Crawl out Your Window'. Same line, two Entirely different meanings. No one else was considering doing things like that, let alone pulling it off. This guy, along with some critics of Bob's stuff, helped introduce me to things like surrealism and multiple meanings.
There are two versions of this song - the one which appears on 'Biograph' was recorded with 'The Hawks', later known as 'The Band', and released officially as a single.
A previous version was recorded during the 'Highway 61 Revisited' sessions and accidentally released as 'Positively Fourth Street' in the first pressing of that single. This version is FAR superior, although the lyrics in the chorus use 'come on' instead of the 'use your hands and legs' that appears in the Hawks' version.
Gotta love the use of the word 'genocide'...I'm perplexed, it sounds more like 'jealous-eyed', but Bob was using a lot of wordplay in his songs at this time.
The lyrics sound like a clever invitation to a woman to an affair. It also sounds like it was released as an attempt to appeal to the pop market to effectively follow-up 'Like A Rolling Stone' (not counting 'Positively Fourth Street', which was a well-timed and opportunistic dig).
It's easy to say now, but the H61 session version of 'Crawl' would have been more effective.
@elephant_range Bob used the line 'you gotta lot of nerve to say you are my friend' to open Positively 4th St as well to close out 'Crawl out Your Window'. Same line, two Entirely different meanings. No one else was considering doing things like that, let alone pulling it off. This guy, along with some critics of Bob's stuff, helped introduce me to things like surrealism and multiple meanings.
@elephant_range Bob used the line 'you gotta lot of nerve to say you are my friend' to open Positively 4th St as well to close out 'Crawl out Your Window'. Same line, two Entirely different meanings. No one else was considering doing things like that, let alone pulling it off. This guy, along with some critics of Bob's stuff, helped introduce me to things like surrealism and multiple meanings.