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If your memory serves you well
We were going to meet again and wait
So I'm going to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late.
No man alive would come to you
With another tale to tell
And you know that we shall meet again
If your memory serves you well.
This wheel's on fire,
Rolling down the road.
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode.
If your memory serves you well
I was going to confiscate your lace
And wrap it up in a sailor's knot
And hide it in your case.
If I knew for sure that it was yours
But it was oh so hard to tell
And you know that we shall meet again
If your memory serves you well.
This wheel's on fire,
It's rolling down the road.
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode.
If your memory serves you well
You'll remember you're the one
That called on me to call on them
To get you your favours done.
And after every plan had failed
And there was nothing more to tell
You knew that we should meet again
If your memory serves you well.
This wheel's on fire,
It's rolling down the road.
Best notify my next of kin
That this wheel shall explode.
We were going to meet again and wait
So I'm going to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late.
No man alive would come to you
With another tale to tell
And you know that we shall meet again
If your memory serves you well.
This wheel's on fire,
Rolling down the road.
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode.
If your memory serves you well
I was going to confiscate your lace
And wrap it up in a sailor's knot
And hide it in your case.
If I knew for sure that it was yours
But it was oh so hard to tell
And you know that we shall meet again
If your memory serves you well.
This wheel's on fire,
It's rolling down the road.
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode.
If your memory serves you well
You'll remember you're the one
That called on me to call on them
To get you your favours done.
And after every plan had failed
And there was nothing more to tell
You knew that we should meet again
If your memory serves you well.
This wheel's on fire,
It's rolling down the road.
Best notify my next of kin
That this wheel shall explode.
Lyrics submitted by johntherevelator
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'0'? No one has commented on this song? Unbelievable.
The wheel is a symbol of eternal life through rebirth, his "wheel" is his soul.
The song is a conversation between the protagonist and God. God promises immortal life through servitude and threatens his ambitions (every plan has failed) by not answering his prayers (called on me ....to get your favors done). This is defiantly rejected by the protagonist who chooses destruction/Apocalypse - a wheel on fire. Notify my next of kin is meant to antagonize, as if to say, tell that to somebody that cares. One of Dylan;s boldest efforts in my view.