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She's got everything she needs, she's an artist,
She don't look back.
She's got everything she needs, she's an artist,
She don't look back.
She can take the dark out of the nighttime,
And paint the daytime black.
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees.
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees.
But you'll wind up peeking through her keyhole
Down upon your knees.
She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall.
She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child, the Law can't touch her at all.
She wears an Egyptian ring that sparkles before she speaks.
She wears an Egyptian ring that sparkles before she speaks.
She's a hypnotist collector, you are a walking antique.
Bow down to her on Sunday,
Salute her when her birthday comes.
Bow down to her on Sunday,
Salute her when her birthday comes.
For Halloween give her a trumpet,
And for Christmas, buy her a drum.
She don't look back.
She's got everything she needs, she's an artist,
She don't look back.
She can take the dark out of the nighttime,
And paint the daytime black.
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees.
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees.
But you'll wind up peeking through her keyhole
Down upon your knees.
She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall.
She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child, the Law can't touch her at all.
She wears an Egyptian ring that sparkles before she speaks.
She wears an Egyptian ring that sparkles before she speaks.
She's a hypnotist collector, you are a walking antique.
Bow down to her on Sunday,
Salute her when her birthday comes.
Bow down to her on Sunday,
Salute her when her birthday comes.
For Halloween give her a trumpet,
And for Christmas, buy her a drum.
Lyrics submitted by Philadelphia Eagles, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Track duration: 02:47
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We start out with the "she belongs to me" mentality but the truth that we end up hypnotized and "collected" is so often true.
The song is about 'Statue Of Liberty'.
It's an apprecation for a woman who has the ability to make men "worship" her by keeping herself attractive, strong, and elusive instead of becoming overly-available and needy-clingy.
Personally I find that when I'm in a place where I feel confident, independent, and non-clingy myself, it can sometimes be REALLY nice and refreshing to come across a very strong, elusive and independent woman--like the one he is singning about. Her strength and non-neediness is respectable in my opinion--someone who makes you proud, sparkles, not willing to ''fall,'' etc...
She can take the dark out of nighttime
And paint the daytime black.
That's what artists do, they manipulate colors. In my opinion, Dylan is idealizing her or making a sarcastic notion of idealizing her.
does it matter who she was?
an Artist.
a Queen.
a Goddess.
he will give her everything because she has lost everything
(she's got no place to fall)
he will worship her in all earthly ways that he knows.
she will always hold a part of herself back.
before he knows it, he will be just going through the motions.
she belong to him because he is the only one who really sees her.
she is magic.
This song recently found its way into my playing rotation, here's my current take, perhaps relevant to some current experinces.
Yup, he idolizes, and that means objectifies the woman, and after a bit this gets a bit tired for everybody, and he's history, the walking antique.
Point to me is, what happens when you put a woman on a pedestal; it does nobody any good. You idealize her and give her superpowers to make you miserable or elated, and nobody should hold that power over you but you.
Close relationships function best when folks want to learn to know each other, not worship each other and depend on them for taking away the dark and bringing the light.
my .02, subject to change , of course YMMV :-))
think that dylan is subtly conveying irony in that the song's melody and vibe are so upbeat and peppy, creating the initial mood of the song to make this image of a woman he really respects/admires. then when you actually listen to the lyrics he is incredibly condascending and really degrades her personality and actions. he mocks her by saying she thinks she has godlike powers, she can never be wrong, we should worship her, etc, while simultaneously undermining her opinion of herself vs. what he actually perceives her as. this song is similar to positively fourth street in the sense that the music and the lyrics are complete juxtapositions of one another