Ty for the nice compliment, coldirons! Dylan was certainly enigmatic but as a true folkie he was always steeped in the language of Christianity, right from his first album or before. But the few albums before his conversion, you can see it gradually coming more and more into focus. This song is probably the most conclusive example of it.
Personally i think that the song is about loss, the verse about "Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you." i beleive that he is discussing people discounting the gifts, aspecially the giftof love that he had given to a woman he no longer posesses. The scar and heart shaped tattoo are in refrence to the idea of a broken heart and loss.
Personally i think that the song is about loss, the verse about "Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you." i beleive that he is discussing people discounting the gifts, aspecially the giftof love that he had given to a woman he no longer posesses. The scar and heart shaped tattoo are in refrence to the idea of a broken heart and loss.
Also i beleive the verse about "I don't need your organization" definately doesn't suggest to me that Dylan was happy to be engulfed into the folds of an organized religion.
Also most biblical refrences to Jesus do not suggest he had blond hair, in this case who is the blonde haired lover in the seventh verse?
Contrastly a lot of the imagery in the lyrics suggest a willingness for christianity. was the song perhaps written at a time when Dylan was either considering the decision for a conversion or regretting it.
A lot of symbolic songs contain religious/christian symbolism, which does not always have anything to do with an approaching conversion. in fact it is just as likely to be mocking as awed.
Ty for the nice compliment, coldirons! Dylan was certainly enigmatic but as a true folkie he was always steeped in the language of Christianity, right from his first album or before. But the few albums before his conversion, you can see it gradually coming more and more into focus. This song is probably the most conclusive example of it.
Personally i think that the song is about loss, the verse about "Renegade priests and treacherous young witches Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you." i beleive that he is discussing people discounting the gifts, aspecially the giftof love that he had given to a woman he no longer posesses. The scar and heart shaped tattoo are in refrence to the idea of a broken heart and loss.
Personally i think that the song is about loss, the verse about "Renegade priests and treacherous young witches Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you." i beleive that he is discussing people discounting the gifts, aspecially the giftof love that he had given to a woman he no longer posesses. The scar and heart shaped tattoo are in refrence to the idea of a broken heart and loss.
Also i beleive the verse about "I don't need your organization" definately doesn't suggest to me that Dylan was happy to be engulfed into the folds of an organized religion.
Also most biblical refrences to Jesus do not suggest he had blond hair, in this case who is the blonde haired lover in the seventh verse?
Contrastly a lot of the imagery in the lyrics suggest a willingness for christianity. was the song perhaps written at a time when Dylan was either considering the decision for a conversion or regretting it.
A lot of symbolic songs contain religious/christian symbolism, which does not always have anything to do with an approaching conversion. in fact it is just as likely to be mocking as awed.