ok i just signed up after seeing the lack of commentary on this song. i have always felt that it is talking about the way people with power or who recieve power go a little nuts. first few verses about the city counsel trying to bring back a dead horse. and in latter parts it talks about how people try to keep their power through flattery or making people feel important the king of the phillistines for instance. but i must say that the drugged period of dylan is a very unique and abstract form of conveying messages. honestly some probably mean nothing and he is laughing at fools like us trying to analyize everything
@riderofwaves I couldn't agree more. I don't think any of his songs had any deep meaning. He was a Gemini type. Mercurial, mischievous and eternally vague, as Joan Baez says in
Diamonds and Rust - You who are so good with words and at keeping things vague.
@riderofwaves I couldn't agree more. I don't think any of his songs had any deep meaning. He was a Gemini type. Mercurial, mischievous and eternally vague, as Joan Baez says in
Diamonds and Rust - You who are so good with words and at keeping things vague.
ok i just signed up after seeing the lack of commentary on this song. i have always felt that it is talking about the way people with power or who recieve power go a little nuts. first few verses about the city counsel trying to bring back a dead horse. and in latter parts it talks about how people try to keep their power through flattery or making people feel important the king of the phillistines for instance. but i must say that the drugged period of dylan is a very unique and abstract form of conveying messages. honestly some probably mean nothing and he is laughing at fools like us trying to analyize everything
@riderofwaves I couldn't agree more. I don't think any of his songs had any deep meaning. He was a Gemini type. Mercurial, mischievous and eternally vague, as Joan Baez says in Diamonds and Rust - You who are so good with words and at keeping things vague.
@riderofwaves I couldn't agree more. I don't think any of his songs had any deep meaning. He was a Gemini type. Mercurial, mischievous and eternally vague, as Joan Baez says in Diamonds and Rust - You who are so good with words and at keeping things vague.