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Absolutely Sweet Marie Lyrics
Well, your railroad gate, you know I just can't jump it
Sometimes it gets so hard, you see I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet With all these promises you left for me But where are you tonight, sweet Marie? Well, I waited for you when I was half sick Yes, I waited for you when you hated me Well, I waited for you inside of the frozen traffic When you knew I had some other place to be Now, where are you tonight, sweet Marie? Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously But then, now again, not too many can be like you, fortunately. Well, six white horses that you did promise Were fin'lly delivered down to the penitentiary But to live outside the law, you must be honest I know you always say that you agree But where are you tonight, sweet Marie? Well, I don't know how it happened But the river-boat captain, he knows my fate But ev'rybody else, even yourself They're just gonna have to wait. Well, I got the fever down in my pockets The Persian drunkard, he follows me Yes, I can take him to your house but I can't unlock it You see, you forgot to leave me with the key Oh, where are you tonight, sweet Marie? Now, I been in jail when all my mail showed That a man can't give his address out to bad company And now I stand here lookin' at your yellow railroad In the ruins of your balcony Wond'ring where you are tonight, sweet Marie.
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04-15-2003
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02-01-2005
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02-03-2005
Does this mean sexual arousal?
George Harrison did a great rendition on Dylan's 30th anniv Concert.
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03-19-2005
11-28-2009
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10-27-2005
Sometimes it gets so hard, you see
I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet"
Sounds like she shuts him out (physically?), so he's forced to take care of his own, uh, "needs".
Beating on my trumpet?
Seems fairly obvoius to me. ;-)
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07-25-2006
Anyway great song, its pretty obvious that its about a girl that he wants but can't get for whatever reason. I love the 'beating on my trumpet' line.
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11-02-2006
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03-16-2007
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06-05-2007
"he knows my fate" - his fate is to die.
As to how, why, when and where: "ev'rybody else, even yourself They're just gonna have to wait."
She is so wrapped up in herself. He's mocking her ignorance of the fact that death will come to her too - she's not that special ; she's one of those people "that think death's honesty Won't fall upon them naturally" _ it's alright ma (i'm only bleeding)
Sorry - it doesn't make sense the way I wrote it.
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08-16-2007
'And now I stand here lookin' at your yellow railroad
In the ruins of your balcony'
To me this always suggested moonlight falling through the balcony railings/pillars creating a pattern that looked like a 'yellow railroad' (a repeated pattern like railway sleepers on a rail line). Always considered that a beautiful image, economically put across.
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04-14-2008
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06-12-2009
"I can take him to your house but I can't unlock it; you see, you forgot to leave me with the key."
This means she might have said it but she can't come through and actually do it.
"..looking at your yellow railroad/in the ruins of your balcony."
The ruins of the balcony represent BROKEN promises.
"I'm just sitting here, beating on my trumpet/with all these promises you left for me."
This one's obvious.
Marie can't keep her word, that's really all I got from it.
And this song really started making sense to me after my girlfriend broke all her promises...hmm.
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08-28-2009
So he's thinking of her, sitting here "beating on his trumpet"
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12-16-2009
what bob said according to wiki:
"That's about as complete as you can be. Every single letter in that line. It's all true. On a literal and on an escapist level.... Getting back to the yellow railroad, that could be from looking someplace. Being a performer, you travel the world. You're not just looking out of the same window everyday. You're not just walking down the same old street. So you must make yourself observe whatever. But most of the time it hits you. You don't have to observe. It hits you. Like, "yellow railroad" could have been a blinding day when the sun was so bright on a railroad someplace and it stayed on my mind.... These aren't contrived images. These are images which are just in there and have got to come out."
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