First of all, the Jack of Hearts does not get killed; Rosemary saves him by killing Big Jim, the husband she despises, with a pen knife. She chooses to do "one good deed before she died" and consigns herself to the gallows.
Secondly, Rosemary is Lily's...wait for it...mother! Why do you think Dylan wrote the lyrics of the final verse like so: "She was thinking about her father who she very rarely saw / Thinking about Rosemary, and thinking about the law..."
Rosemary "had done a lot of bad things," including having a child out of wedlock. What makes the story so sordid and even more Shakespearean is that Rosemary's unfaithful husband is having a dalliance with her daughter.
@johnrausch3rd Thank you I did not observe this. The cold revolver clicking is Jim holding Jack of Hearts at gunpoint, then Rosemary saves Jack by stabbing Jim before he can shoot, I guess?
@johnrausch3rd Thank you I did not observe this. The cold revolver clicking is Jim holding Jack of Hearts at gunpoint, then Rosemary saves Jack by stabbing Jim before he can shoot, I guess?
@buffering a "cold" gun is one that doesn't have any ammo in it--that's certainly the meaning here. more specifically, and I think probably the meaning here since we're talking about stages and costumes, is that a cold gun is a prop gun.
@buffering a "cold" gun is one that doesn't have any ammo in it--that's certainly the meaning here. more specifically, and I think probably the meaning here since we're talking about stages and costumes, is that a cold gun is a prop gun.
The lyrics pointedly DON'T say who is holding the gun.
The lyrics pointedly DON'T say who is holding the gun.
Whoever holds it, the possibilities are that:
Whoever holds it, the possibilities are that:
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they know it's empty, and are just cocking it ("click") to try to scare their target;
they don't know it's empty, and are cocking it ("click") with the intent to kill;
they don't know it's empty, and they actually pull the trigger, which results in the "click" (which would surprise them).
Everyone has missed what seems obvious.
First of all, the Jack of Hearts does not get killed; Rosemary saves him by killing Big Jim, the husband she despises, with a pen knife. She chooses to do "one good deed before she died" and consigns herself to the gallows.
Secondly, Rosemary is Lily's...wait for it...mother! Why do you think Dylan wrote the lyrics of the final verse like so: "She was thinking about her father who she very rarely saw / Thinking about Rosemary, and thinking about the law..."
Rosemary "had done a lot of bad things," including having a child out of wedlock. What makes the story so sordid and even more Shakespearean is that Rosemary's unfaithful husband is having a dalliance with her daughter.
Nobody writes a song like Bob Dylan.
Precisely!
Precisely!
The one thing I can't figure out is why the Colt revolver merely "clicked." Did Lily empty the cylinder? Was it Rosemary? Could've been either one.
The one thing I can't figure out is why the Colt revolver merely "clicked." Did Lily empty the cylinder? Was it Rosemary? Could've been either one.
@johnrausch3rd Thank you I did not observe this.
@johnrausch3rd Thank you I did not observe this.
@johnrausch3rd Thank you I did not observe this. The cold revolver clicking is Jim holding Jack of Hearts at gunpoint, then Rosemary saves Jack by stabbing Jim before he can shoot, I guess?
@johnrausch3rd Thank you I did not observe this. The cold revolver clicking is Jim holding Jack of Hearts at gunpoint, then Rosemary saves Jack by stabbing Jim before he can shoot, I guess?
@buffering a "cold" gun is one that doesn't have any ammo in it--that's certainly the meaning here. more specifically, and I think probably the meaning here since we're talking about stages and costumes, is that a cold gun is a prop gun.
@buffering a "cold" gun is one that doesn't have any ammo in it--that's certainly the meaning here. more specifically, and I think probably the meaning here since we're talking about stages and costumes, is that a cold gun is a prop gun.
The lyrics pointedly DON'T say who is holding the gun.
The lyrics pointedly DON'T say who is holding the gun.
Whoever holds it, the possibilities are that:
Whoever holds it, the possibilities are that:
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