This song isn't about love or about war. He was talking to all the people who were trying to make him the leader of a movement he wanted no part of. It was popular to be a rebel then, and they made him out to be their leader, but Bob wasn't all that "'rebellious" if anything he was rebelling against the rebels see the song "my back pages" where he talks about about pointing at the mongrel dogs who teach, fearing not id become my enemy at the moment that I preached" Bob wanted people to think for themselves and not judge others
This song isn't about love or about war. He was talking to all the people who were trying to make him the leader of a movement he wanted no part of. It was popular to be a rebel then, and they made him out to be their leader, but Bob wasn't all that "'rebellious" if anything he was rebelling against the rebels see the song "my back pages" where he talks about about pointing at the mongrel dogs who teach, fearing not id become my enemy at the moment that I preached" Bob wanted people to think for themselves and not judge others