| The Beatles – She's Leaving Home Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Has anybody ever considered that this song might be an extended metaphor about a girl who committs suicide? Some of the lyrics seem to contradict themselves -- for instance, they mention that "she's leaving home after living alone for so many years," yet it should be implied that the girl in this song lived with her parents for all of her life to that point. Could this mean that she felt alone all of her life, a reason she killed herself? She left her parents a letter. Could this be a suicide note? There's always a letter to go along with suicide. Then again, the whole "meeting a man from the motor trade" thing does sort of debunk this idea. That "living alone" line just gets me every time. I know I'm reading into this too much, but it just doesn't make sense. | |
| Bob Dylan – Gates of Eden Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I was surprised that this song wasn't even listed on this website, so I added it. Undoubtedly, "Gates of Eden" is one of Bob's deepest and most poetic songs, one that I couldn't begin to comprehend until I really focused when I listened to it. My take on this song is that it's a reflection of all the problems in the world when Bob wrote it, especially the threat of nuclear war. For instance, a good part of the first verse could describe a nuclear explosion, and the "all and all can only fall with a crashing but meaningless blow" line definitely points to, in a tragic way, the idea that the end of the world is imminent and will ultimately be for nothing. Dylan concludes every verse with a contrast between his world and the perfection of Eden. In a way, it seems like he's sad that, according to the Biblical creation story, man ever "ate the apple" and was forced to leave Eden in the process. We would've been much better off there. I might go verse-by-verse into this song later. There are some that I still don't understand (like "The motorcycle black madonna"), but I have an interpretation for most of it. Overall, this is a sad but beautiful song. Though it's filled with great imagery, the last three simple, direct lines (At times I think...) are my favorite. |
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| Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song changed my outlook on life. In particular, the first few lines of the last verse: "Ah get born, keep warm, short pants, romance, learn to dance, get dressed, get blessed, try to be a success, please her, please him, buy gifts, don't steal, don't lift, twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift. " ...kill me every time. Is that what life is really about? Dylan doesn't need to come out and condemn such a bleak existence in this song like he does in others on "Bringing It All Back Home" (especially It's Alright, Ma), but he really gets his point across in a big way. |
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| Bob Dylan – Tombstone Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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smeared -- basically, that line is a purposely ambiguous and awesome pun. Dylan plays with word connotations here. Yellow's most obvious connotation is the color. However, it can also mean "cowardly" or "scared." Chicken's most obvious connotation is the food. However, it can also mean the same thing as the second connotation of yellow -- scared (You're chicken!) So, no matter which way you look at this statement, one of the words will screw up the sentence's meaning. For instance, the sun definitely can't be chicken, but something that's yellow can be. What an awesome pun. This song is amazing. The lyrics are great, and Michael Bloomfield's guitar work is exceptional. |
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