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Blowin' In The Wind Lyrics
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. Yes, 'n' how many years can a mountain exist Before it's washed to the sea? Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head, And pretend that he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. Yes, 'n' how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.
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05-03-2002
"how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?" and "how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?" are very clear anti-war messages and Dylans saying that people still don't realize that war is pointless.
Additionally, the line about the mountain washing to the see shows that nothing lasts forever, the line about people not being free shows that there is too much oppression in the world. He also talks about people turning their heads and pretending they do not see the trouble in the world. Dylan is saying that the answer to all these questions is right in front of us, yet we do not see it.
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05-14-2002
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05-14-2002
It's kind of Bob's way of sayin' that yes, love is all that can change everything. And I agree with him :).
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05-14-2002
It's kind of Bob's way of sayin' that yes, love is all that can change everything. And I agree with him :).
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05-28-2002
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06-20-2002
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07-06-2002
i kinda just had an epiphany, back in the early 1900's woodrow wilson tried to prevent future wars w/ the treaty of versailles. of course stalin and mussolini were both against him but he called world war one, "the war to end all wars" he saw this answer blowin' in the wind and tried to bring it to light but failed to do so. this shows some people can see this wind but the world in general is too involved in its own betterment to try and prevent future events which keep this world from being peaceful.
also another thing it reminds me of is books like '1984' in which it shows that a utopian society will never happen.
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08-04-2002
Everytime I hear it, it's like the first time. I just listen, it's unbelieveble brillant.
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09-23-2002
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10-27-2004
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11-14-2004
and I adore it.
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11-19-2004
Reffering to "MrMojoRisin5552", this person is absolutely right. Nothing in this song links to Kennedy and everyone I talked to, mostly musicians, never said anything about Kennedy, mostly about war and reality.
04-28-2009
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11-19-2004
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11-24-2004
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12-17-2004
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01-05-2005
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01-09-2005
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02-24-2005
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03-01-2005
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03-24-2005
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05-04-2005
Blowin in the wind, wind is something that we know exists, we feel it all the time, but we can't actually see it, we can only see how it impacts us (tornados, a light breeze, ect.)
It is definatly a thought provoking song if you really try to analyze it. The message is also ambigious to a certain extent as well. Is it anti-war, anti-oppression? When you first listen to it you figure that's the obvious meaning, but when I listen to it a second time I think something completely different.
I think it's about how some people get so caught up in leaving a "legacy" or "proving themselves"... the line about how many roads must a man walk, before he is called a man. It's almost like Dylan is trying to tell the world that it's really not necessary to always try to upstage ourselves, and as long as everyone is happy and loves eachother and is good to one another.
Definatly a powerful song, and I'm not even a folk fan at all, but Dylan was definatly a genius.
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05-10-2005
I agree with diseased_and_amused that it is a general song. Dylan was just making observations on the problems he saw in the world, not specific incidents, I think.
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05-20-2005
Episode 2 "Gospel Highway" was about the cross over from Gospel to Soul with the main focus being on Sam Cooke.
In this they claim that Sam Cooke's final song was a response to Bob Dylans Blowin in the Wind.
Whether or not Dylans message was about segregation wasn't mentioned by Cooke apparently was stunned to realise that this was a white man singing about something that blacks didn't dare.
In this context "How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man" reffers to the calling of Black Men "boy" by white oppressors.
On this note the song is about the oppressed and how even though they are something they are not recognised as being so.
Another way to phrase the question may be
How long will it be before a black man is called a man?
However the rhetorical questions open up a much wider range of things that can be considered.
Cannon Balls may reffer to war but they could also reffer to legal verbal abuse or legal segregation of "races"
THere are other questions there that can also reffer to all forms of oppresion. The mountain could be a current state and how long will it be until its eroded away?
I see it as a range of questions that reffer to the many unjust things in this world.
War and Oppression being jsut 2 of them
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06-16-2005
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06-16-2005
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