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you gonna look fine
be primed for dancing
you're gonna trip and glide
all on the trembling plane
your diamond hands
will be stacked with roses
and wind and cars
and people of the past
i'll call you thing
just when the moon sings
and place your face in stone
upon the hills of stars
and gripped in the arms
of the changeless madman
we'll dance our lives away
in the ballrooms of mars
you talk about day
i'm talking 'bout night time
when the monsters call out
the names of men
bob dylan knows
and i bet alan freed did
there are things in night
that better not to behold
you dance
with your lizard leather boots on
and pull the strings
that change the faces of men
you diamond browed hag
you're a gutter-gaunt gangster
john lennon knows your name
and i've seen his
be primed for dancing
you're gonna trip and glide
all on the trembling plane
your diamond hands
will be stacked with roses
and wind and cars
and people of the past
i'll call you thing
just when the moon sings
and place your face in stone
upon the hills of stars
and gripped in the arms
of the changeless madman
we'll dance our lives away
in the ballrooms of mars
you talk about day
i'm talking 'bout night time
when the monsters call out
the names of men
bob dylan knows
and i bet alan freed did
there are things in night
that better not to behold
you dance
with your lizard leather boots on
and pull the strings
that change the faces of men
you diamond browed hag
you're a gutter-gaunt gangster
john lennon knows your name
and i've seen his
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It's about having fun in mars, being famous, where everybody knows your name and you're recognized. Bob Dylan knows (Song for Bob Dylan)...
Mars => the god of War.
Dancing => Fighting
Ballrooms of Mars => Battlefields
Witn my comments on the lyrics between brackets.
you gonna look fine
be primed for dancing
[in your uniform with your battle gears]
you're gonna trip and glide
all on the trembling plane
[that carry you to the battlefields of a foreign country]
your diamond hands
will be stacked with roses
and wind and cars
and people of the past
I'll call you thing
just when the moon sings
and place your face in stone
upon the hills of stars
[all iconic images of the return of the war hero]
and gripped in the arms
of the changeless madman
we'll dance our lives away
in the ballrooms of mars
[The crazyness on the battlefields has not change throughout History]
you talk about day
i'm talking 'bout night time
when the monsters call out
the names of men
[Not about the mediatized crazyness in daylight but about the hidden crazy face of those who plan who are going to die the next day]
bob dylan knows
and i bet alan freed did
[Dylan anti-war R&R hero, Freed anti-racial segregation R&R hero]
there are things in night
that better not to behold
[That's why they are not mediatized]
you dance
with your lizard leather boots on
[Maybe refering to the special ops officers who used to add personal distinctive features to their uniforms]
and pull the strings
that change the faces of men
[Maybe refering to booby traps like the Claymore]
you diamond browed hag
you're a gutter-gaunt gangster
[Maybe reference to their dealings with the drug lords for military intelligence]
john lennon knows your name
and i've seen his.
[Lennon anti-war R&R hero, the inspiration for this song]
The song is almost entirely about dancing, aside from that he makes references to the qualities of a woman's beauty and his "Rock" icons. Not to mention placing a face in stone upon a hill of stars, some would consider this a metaphor for an eternal pedestal.
It sounds like he's saying "I love Rock and Roll and it helps me show my love for you, with dance. Not only that, my love is as eternal as rock and roll and the men that make it that way."
Beautiful mysterious song. Like the best of Bolans songs it works just below the conscious. I think it's about the influence of his musical heroes. He works in haunting images of cars and escaping into the night. His songs foretell his own tragic end.
Yeah, I thought so. So shut up.
I think these lyrics don't really mean anything, just describing a dream or something. It's pure poetry.
Your diamond brown hair
instead of whatever the hell it says above? I guess what I think doesn't make much sense, but neither does the line in the lyrics above.
Wonder why someone would even bother to post about lyrics he hates? Eeyore may not be quite retarded, but he probably has an IQ of, oh maybe 90.