Expecting Rain

Here is an article about the song that brings up what the song realy means:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ ... i_79354004

stopped reading when they said that sad eyed lady of the lowlands is about the catholic church

nvm i'm tempted to read on since i have nothing better to do

I don't believe that anyone (but the man himself - and he ain't talking) can say what any of Bob's songs "really mean" . This article and a trillion others only says what the writer wants the song to mean, if you know what I mean.

The name "Blonde on Blonde" itself is a reference to the Bible?
Hmm..

I thought it was interesting . . . one good thing about interpretations, no matter how whacky, is that since we don't know the absolute truth, then they're all equally valid. i had never considered the confusion of the white horse/pale horse thing, it could create lots of problems for someone.

thanks for posting it.

The article is quite silly. Dylan can't be analyzed in this manner.

But anyway, while I can't tell you what the song is about, I can tell you that it is not about drugs. He said so himself, and it's also quite obvious.

yeah but its damn fun to listen to when your stoned! And when your 16 and listening to it while stoned and then fast forward 10 years later to hearing it in the car all I can think about is those good times stoned. Also just how many times has Bob said something to get people off his back? I mean just cause he said it wasn't about drugs may mean it wasn't about drugs, could be about getting stoned. But I have no idea. HAHA

This song isn't about drugs. What Bob meant was that because he hates everybody in the world, everybody must get rocks thrown at them until they die. It's so obvious. He laughs during the song because of the joy he gets watching people die.

hey, that's not very nice!

Unless Bob says what a song means, and I don't think that
happens often, and even if it did you can't necessarily believe it as
true, you are pretty much free to take a song as whatever you
want to take it as, that's one of the fun things about his music, it's
so open-ended, but when you say it, one ought to qualify it with
something like -- here's the way it strikes me, not (like this article)
as - here's what it really means.

Just a thought.

It is about advertising and how it invades our lives

It's about (to me) sarcasm & innuendo. It's one of his funniest
and most ridiculous songs ever. There's several versions and I
noticed, the beauty of this song is, the worse he sings it, the
better it is.

In this Norwegian book I have, the author goes through every Bob Dylan song and tries to find the meaning of it. About Rainy Day Women, he says that it may be inspired by Ray Charles "Let's Go Get Stoned", that is about getting drunk on alcohol. A "Rainy Day Women" is a marijuana cigarette, according to Time magacine.
And he mentions that Jonathan Cott, a Rolling Stone journalist that interviewied Dylan, asks Dylan this: "Everyone thought it was about being stoned, but I always thought it was about being alone." And Dylan replies: "So did I."

Has Bob Dylan ever given an interview where he didn't lie about something? He is as famous for lying as he is for song writing. I just wish he would step up to the plate and speak out about the draconian pot laws and the damage they have done.

The mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, requested an interview with Dylan years ago when he played there. Dylan's handlers told the mayor that Dylan didn't grant interviews. The Mayor told Dylan's people "OK, then let me call in some of my police officers to search your tour buses". The Mayor got meet Mr. Dylan.

Has Bob Dylan ever given an interview where he didn't lie about something? He is as famous for lying as he is for song writing. I just wish he would step up to the plate and speak out about the draconian pot laws and the damage they have done.

The mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, requested an interview with Dylan years ago when he played there. Dylan's handlers told the mayor that Dylan didn't grant interviews. The Mayor told Dylan's people "OK, then let me call in some of my police officers to search your tour buses". The Mayor got to meet Mr. Dylan.

uggh. is that really true? do you have a source or link for that? i'm very disappointed in bob and agree he should have stepped up to the plate for all of us pot smokers.

William F. Buckley and his magazine National Review have taken up
the pot issue. They are in favor of legallizing it. (I've mention it
before.) So, all of you ought to jump on the bandwagon and
subscribe today! You may learn a thing or two to bolster your
positions on controversial issues.

I'll climb in bed with Bill.

The story about the mayor is from a book titled "The Prince of Providence". You can Google it with Dylans name and it will pop right up.

Bill Buckley has been an advocate of legal pot for about 20 years.

Thanks chrome horse, I just found it!

thats what i think it means

well, i guess its valid . . . but i thought he was laughing because they were having fun in the studio while recording the song. he isn't the type to do a phony laugh, is he?

I think he laughs basically because McCoy or whoever starts going "Woooooo!" during the verses of a song that's new to him.
He must have seen the future and been to a Never Ending Tour gig, you get plenty of that there.

There's more to it. Columbia records changed the lyrics to "Blowin in the wind" because they were afraid of the outrage it would cause. Some lines from the real version:

"How many stones
must one man throw
before he makes people die?"

That also explains the main refrain "the answer my freind is blowin in the wind", because depending on the wind conditions, you may have to throw more stones.

that's what i thought, i may have even read an account of the recording session somewhere but i don't remember the source, i could try to dig it up if anyone cares . . .they should make an "emoticon" with grey hair and a confused look to symbolize "senior moment" I'd use it a lot.