"Mr. Tambourine Man" by Dylan. It took me a few years to realize it was about a heroin pusher.
Are you sure about that? In his 1985 Biograph compilation album, he claimed that "Mr. Tambourine Man" is not about drugs, and was inspired by a folk musician named Bruce Langhorne. Dylan seldom made any revealing comments about the meaning of his lyrics and many can be interpreted to have multiple meanings.
pop music fans go for utter gibberish all the time.
"End of the world as we know it" REM, "Blinded by the light" springsteen, "we didn't start the fire" billy joel
it's almost like a rite of passage for pop stars to get away with it.
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once you are popular, you can make people pick through a stream-of-consciousness ramble for pearls of supposed wisdom. Just part of fame
Blinded by the Light - you got me, what's it about? I have some hunches but not all the lyrics line up to fit one interpretation, at least not one i can feel confident of.
I do not know what it is about except Springsteen has discussed it some. Also the cover by MMEB was done with slightly tweaked lyrics including the fact that most listeners thought a feminine hygiene product was involved which was not true. I threw it out there to Deno as a challenge because he says he has “never heard a song I didn’t get. Can’t see that happening.” So then I am saying to him with the challenge that this is difficult to believe.
A song doesn't always have to make sense. It's a multilayered sensory experience, it's not always like reading a book with a linear plot.
It's the way a song makes you feel that's important, even if you don't understand the lyrics or the composing artist's original message. Your interpretation of that song has as much validity as anyone's.
It's like looking at a painting on a wall, maybe you think it's sht, or maybe not. Maybe it makes you feel something, or not. It's all about your own personal interpretation.
A song doesn't always have to make sense. It's a multilayered sensory experience, it's not always like reading a book with a linear plot.
It's the way a song makes you feel that's important, even if you don't understand the lyrics or the composing artist's original message. Your interpretation of that song has as much validity as anyone's.
It's like looking at a painting on a wall, maybe you think it's sht, or maybe not. Maybe it makes you feel something, or not. It's all about your own personal interpretation.
Blinded by the Light - you got me, what's it about? I have some hunches but not all the lyrics line up to fit one interpretation, at least not one i can feel confident of.
I do not know what it is about except Springsteen has discussed it some. Also the cover by MMEB was done with slightly tweaked lyrics including the fact that most listeners thought a feminine hygiene product was involved which was not true. I threw it out there to Deno as a challenge because he says he has “never heard a song I didn’t get. Can’t see that happening.” So then I am saying to him with the challenge that this is difficult to believe.
Okay, now we're getting somewhere. I always glommed onto the Manfred Mann version, never knowing Bruce's was the original. Let me listen to that one a few more times to see if that sheds some light. Damn, though, his version is wordy....
I do not know what it is about except Springsteen has discussed it some. Also the cover by MMEB was done with slightly tweaked lyrics including the fact that most listeners thought a feminine hygiene product was involved which was not true. I threw it out there to Deno as a challenge because he says he has “never heard a song I didn’t get. Can’t see that happening.” So then I am saying to him with the challenge that this is difficult to believe.
Okay, now we're getting somewhere. I always glommed onto the Manfred Mann version, never knowing Bruce's was the original. Let me listen to that one a few more times to see if that sheds some light. Damn, though, his version is wordy....
It's about making the scene, getting the good thing, scoring in a sexual sense. Desire, longing, consummation in desire, and inevitable acquiescence to indulgence and consummation.
Actually very witty lyrics, and they all make sense. It lays out a series of individuals - the adolescent, the old guy, the band members, the boob-job groupie, and others, and how each found their salvation in the act, "making it through the night."
Good song. Not earth shattering concept, but nice story-telling.
And jeez, those references to self-indulgence are just brutal.
Bruce Springsteen Blinded By The Light: The Story, from VH1 StorytellersListen to your favorite Bruce Springsteen tracks: https://bspringsteen.lnk.to/toptrac...
theres a lyric that says “forever never seems that long, until you’re grown.
I didn’t realize until much later (10 years) what that meant. It means that in the context of getting with a girl and becoming more serious and talking about marriage, boyfriends and girlfriends will usually say “I want to be with you forever.” And it’s easy at the time to say that. Then, after you marry them, massive problems arise, you gradually grow apart, or downright get sick of each other and get a divorce because you can’t see yourself with them forever.
forever never seems that long until you’re grown, i.e. forever is easy to say when you are young and until you are mature and realize you don’t want to be with them anymore.
Not a song that fits anywhere, not about trains, prison, lost love, hard times etc, To me its a song about a young guy looking back on some fun times and fun people in his life.
Springsteen looking back?
Need some research, see what we can find.
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Not a song that fits anywhere, not about trains, prison, lost love, hard times etc, To me its a song about a young guy looking back on some fun times and fun people in his life.
Springsteen looking back?
Need some research, see what we can find.
Yeah, esp. after listening to Bruce's vid explaining the references, that's my takeaway, too. Honestly, it's an adventure in storytelling, and I don't think you can read too much into it. He was into structuring the song that flowed a certain way, and less on content, frankly. Mood piece.
“Blinded By The Light” was the first song on Bruce’s debut album “Greeting’s From Asbury Park, N.J.”. Bruce has talked about the song many times before, stating many of the references in the song are personal, including people he knew or had met on the Boardwalks, or had grown up around, or were just direct personal references to himself.
Think my fist thought pretty much fits that. Dude looking back over good times and fun people.
Never curious about that tune until now so it's time to do the work.
“Blinded By The Light” was the first song on Bruce’s debut album “Greeting’s From Asbury Park, N.J.”. Bruce has talked about the song many times before, stating many of the references in the song are personal, including people he knew or had met on the Boardwalks, or had grown up around, or were just direct personal references to himself.
Think my fist thought pretty much fits that. Dude looking back over good times and fun people.
Jeeze posted this link above and Bruce explains song line by line. Most of it is about him.
You can skip it, which I would unless you are a Bruce freak - you get it already.
Bruce Springsteen Blinded By The Light: The Story, from VH1 StorytellersListen to your favorite Bruce Springsteen tracks: https://bspringsteen.lnk.to/toptrac...
Embarrassing to admit but I didn’t realize it meant over people’s privates until I was 34 over 20 years after I first heard the song.
honorable mention the Gay Messiah is Coming by Rufus Wainwright. I didn’t realize the lyrics “the Messiah is coming were a reference to a sexual act and the singer actually making the messiah come with his mouth.
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