this song to me is very fleeting. meaning is not all to clear but this is what i think it is.
basically to me the man in the long black coat is death.(cliched after reading all other posts i know but yeah!)
the 1st stanza paints a story of death in the town, (cotton dress hanging dry, bent over backwards from the hurricane breeze). the lady departed with death,(gone with the man in the long black coat)
somebody's seen him hangin' around-death is looming and is round the corner(outskirts of town)
he had a face like a mask- no-one has seen death personified, i think it would have a stern~austere face.
There was dust on the man-dust cause he's travelled around leaving with other people whose time had arrived, or not.
sermon he gave- admonishing the dying or enlightening the dead about how they lived life. i personally thought this was an extremely heavy stanza cause the whole idea about your conscience being vile but at the same time you having to satisfy it is very paradoxical.
It ain't easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat,-death is hard to swallow, its hard to accept death. acceptance is the last stage in the 5 stages of death.
She went with the man
In the long black coat.-yet everyone dies in the end
There are no mistakes in life some people say
It is true sometimes you can see it that way. -pretty true,many people believe this,specially beauty pageant winners who say "i would change nothing in my life, i learnt from my mistakes, made me a better person!!!"
But people don't live or die, people just float.-brilliant,i think this is dylan trying to infuse his philosophy into the song a little. brilliant.
She went with the man
In the long black coat-again everyone dies
There's smoke on the water, it's been there since June,-death has always been around, or maybe the lady he talks about started showing symptoms since june?
Tree trunks uprooted, 'neath the high crescent moon
Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force
Somebody is out there beating the dead horse.-death is out there looming and becomes clear slowly.
She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote,
She gone with the man
In the long black coat. -i think instead of the idea that she was murdered by the man in the long black coat, nothing she wrote meaning no-one knows when they are going to pass?
this was a great song, and yes, the man in the long black coat is death.
song is about someone who is mourning this girl or woman. dylan's rendition has sorrowful horns, french horns?, accompanying the lyrics.
pulse and vibration, rumbling force, someone is out there beating on a dead horse...reveals someone's sorrow and incomprehension on coming to grips with the loss of this woman....
this was a great song, and yes, the man in the long black coat is death.
song is about someone who is mourning this girl or woman. dylan's rendition has sorrowful horns, french horns?, accompanying the lyrics.
pulse and vibration, rumbling force, someone is out there beating on a dead horse...reveals someone's sorrow and incomprehension on coming to grips with the loss of this woman....
this song to me is very fleeting. meaning is not all to clear but this is what i think it is.
basically to me the man in the long black coat is death.(cliched after reading all other posts i know but yeah!)
the 1st stanza paints a story of death in the town, (cotton dress hanging dry, bent over backwards from the hurricane breeze). the lady departed with death,(gone with the man in the long black coat)
somebody's seen him hangin' around-death is looming and is round the corner(outskirts of town)
he had a face like a mask- no-one has seen death personified, i think it would have a stern~austere face. There was dust on the man-dust cause he's travelled around leaving with other people whose time had arrived, or not.
sermon he gave- admonishing the dying or enlightening the dead about how they lived life. i personally thought this was an extremely heavy stanza cause the whole idea about your conscience being vile but at the same time you having to satisfy it is very paradoxical.
It ain't easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat,-death is hard to swallow, its hard to accept death. acceptance is the last stage in the 5 stages of death.
She went with the man In the long black coat.-yet everyone dies in the end
There are no mistakes in life some people say It is true sometimes you can see it that way. -pretty true,many people believe this,specially beauty pageant winners who say "i would change nothing in my life, i learnt from my mistakes, made me a better person!!!"
But people don't live or die, people just float.-brilliant,i think this is dylan trying to infuse his philosophy into the song a little. brilliant.
She went with the man In the long black coat-again everyone dies
There's smoke on the water, it's been there since June,-death has always been around, or maybe the lady he talks about started showing symptoms since june?
Tree trunks uprooted, 'neath the high crescent moon Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force Somebody is out there beating the dead horse.-death is out there looming and becomes clear slowly.
She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote, She gone with the man In the long black coat. -i think instead of the idea that she was murdered by the man in the long black coat, nothing she wrote meaning no-one knows when they are going to pass?
this was a great song, and yes, the man in the long black coat is death. song is about someone who is mourning this girl or woman. dylan's rendition has sorrowful horns, french horns?, accompanying the lyrics. pulse and vibration, rumbling force, someone is out there beating on a dead horse...reveals someone's sorrow and incomprehension on coming to grips with the loss of this woman....
this was a great song, and yes, the man in the long black coat is death. song is about someone who is mourning this girl or woman. dylan's rendition has sorrowful horns, french horns?, accompanying the lyrics. pulse and vibration, rumbling force, someone is out there beating on a dead horse...reveals someone's sorrow and incomprehension on coming to grips with the loss of this woman....