@roxy54 , I’m not that familiar with Metal but my brother used to play these regularly. I get the vague idea of one being about censorship (A little man with a big eraser, changing history) the other damnation (The never ending search for your shattered sanity) but you’re right about them working better with music. Megadeth https://youtu.be/t2osUs_k-9w Slayer https://youtu.be/XtLvlaGJJEU |
How about some more Dylan lyrics? My favourite (Mr Tambourine Man - final verse is as good as it gets for me) has already been mentioned at least twice, so here’s a few others which live strong in the memory. "Your sister sees the future Like your mama and yourself You’ve never learned to read or write There’s no books upon your shelf" [we used to love quoting that last line in our college days!] "I see a lot of people As I make the rounds And I hear her name here and there As I go from town to town And I’ve never gotten used to it I’ve just learned to turn it off Either I’m too sensitive Or else I’m gettin’ soft Sundown, yellow moon I replay the past I know every scene by heart They all went by so fast If she’s passin’ back this way I’m not that hard to find Tell her she can look me up If she’s got the time" "A change in the weather is known to be extreme But what’s the sense of changing horses in midstream? I’m going out of my mind, oh With a pain that stops and starts Like a corkscrew to my heart Ever since we’ve been apart" "Yes, I received your letter yesterday, about the time the doorknob broke When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke All these people that you mention, yes, I know them, they’re quite lame I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another name Right now, I can’t read too good, don’t send me no more letters no Not unless you mail them from Desolation Row" [This next one, Sugar Baby, is my favourite Dylan song, everyone should listen to it at least once] Here’s a Barb Jungr cover https://youtu.be/SlJgKZT3nAw "I got my back to the sun ’cause the light is too intense I can see what everybody in the world is up against You can’t turn back you can’t come back, sometimes we push too far One day you’ll open up your eyes and you’ll see where we are Sugar Baby get on down the road You ain’t got no brains, no how You went years without me Might as well keep going now Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff Plenty of places to hide things here if you want to hide ’em bad enough I’m staying with Aunt Sally, but you know, she’s not really my aunt Some of these memories you can learn to live with and some of them you can’t Sugar Baby get on down the line You ain’t got no brains, no how You went years without me You might as well keep going now The ladies down in Darktown, they’re doing the Darktown Strut You always got to be prepared but you never know for what There ain’t no limit to the amount of trouble women bring Love is pleasing, love is teasing, love’s not an evil thing Sugar Baby, get on down the road You ain’t got no brains, no how You went years without me Might as well keep going now Every moment of existence seems like some dirty trick Happiness can come suddenly and leave just as quick Any minute of the day the bubble could burst Try to make things better For someone, sometimes you just end up making it a thousand times worse Sugar Baby, get on down the road You ain’t got no brains no how You went years without me Might as well keep going now Your charms have broken many a heart and mine is surely one You got a way of tearing a world apart, love, see what you done Just as sure as we’re living, just as sure as you’re born Look up, look up seek your Maker ’fore Gabriel blows his horn Sugar Baby, get on down the line You ain’t got no sense, no how You went years without me Might as well keep going now" |
