not good, not bad...just all right.
This song is about the true reality of lost love, with little hints hidden here and there about what could have been. Pure genius.">
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Meanings & Lyrics Discussion | SongMeanings
not good, not bad...just all right.
This song is about the true reality of lost love, with little hints hidden here and there about what could have been. Pure genius." />
I think two lines in this song can sum up all the feelings of resentment felt by anyone and everyone who has every listened with their heart and not just their ears. These two lines also portray how (I think) Dylan truly feels about the situation which lead him to write this song and how he is going to handle it / move on.
"But goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say fare thee well"
The first line is pretty straight forward and self explanatory, he doesn't want to use the word "goodbye" because that would be a wrongful and misleading word to sum up their relationship (Dylan and Suze). Mainly because the fact that there was never any true "good" intentions of Suze leaving, I feel as though she always knew she would stay in Italy indefinitely. And then the second line is pure genius - "So I'll just say fare thee well". "Fare thee well" sounds almost exactly like "fairly well" and there is no doubt in my mind that the creative genius who is Dylan, did not do this on accident. That line was meant to sum up in a whole what those two had. It could have been "good" but it turned out to be "fairly well". "Fairly well" is also a synonym for "all right" which is how Dylan thinks of how things will turn out --> not good, not bad...just all right.
This song is about the true reality of lost love, with little hints hidden here and there about what could have been. Pure genius.
I think two lines in this song can sum up all the feelings of resentment felt by anyone and everyone who has every listened with their heart and not just their ears. These two lines also portray how (I think) Dylan truly feels about the situation which lead him to write this song and how he is going to handle it / move on.
"But goodbye's too good a word, babe So I'll just say fare thee well"
The first line is pretty straight forward and self explanatory, he doesn't want to use the word "goodbye" because that would be a wrongful and misleading word to sum up their relationship (Dylan and Suze). Mainly because the fact that there was never any true "good" intentions of Suze leaving, I feel as though she always knew she would stay in Italy indefinitely. And then the second line is pure genius - "So I'll just say fare thee well". "Fare thee well" sounds almost exactly like "fairly well" and there is no doubt in my mind that the creative genius who is Dylan, did not do this on accident. That line was meant to sum up in a whole what those two had. It could have been "good" but it turned out to be "fairly well". "Fairly well" is also a synonym for "all right" which is how Dylan thinks of how things will turn out --> not good, not bad...just all right.
This song is about the true reality of lost love, with little hints hidden here and there about what could have been. Pure genius.