 SongMeanings Interpretations
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Bob Dylan - Simple Twist of Fate Lyrics
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This song is saying great love requires fate. No matter how hard someone tries to make their own fate, it wont work. The real, authentic fate is in the hands of ...
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Bob Dylan - I Want You Lyrics
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Dancing child with His suit could be Cupid or Pan with his Pan flute. He is taking away Cupid's flute because he doesn't want just lust or to temporarily be in ...
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Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street Lyrics
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This song is acually about reporters cuz dylan hates them. He wrote it because they were always on his back and acted like his friends and then wrote bad things ...
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NOFX - Bob Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older ...
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Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Bob Dylan - Love Minus Zero/No Limit Lyrics
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Dylan is saying he can save the raven. This final reversal is also a reversal on another level. You can notice that the structure of the entire song is like the ...
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Bob Dylan - Shelter from the Storm Lyrics
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The biblical references are just a way of describing a man's life and the challenges he faces. And the ultimate message of the song is he is admitting he didn't ...
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Bob Dylan - Gates of Eden Lyrics
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Dylan means that you and everything you love is going to die, after it decays and become perverted, etc.... Whether you are a prince, a princess, a black ...
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Bob Dylan - Sweetheart Like You Lyrics
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"What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?" - what's Liberty doing in the US, which Dylan saw at the time as a place of decay and greed? This song ...
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Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues Lyrics
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The chorus notes that capitalism is tough and that here Dylan is singing about it from a relatively comfortable position.Verses 3&4 are about being made to shut ...
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Bob Dylan - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Lyrics
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“Well, I get lost inside my head / In this chaos, you're my calm / And I will find my feet again / 'Cause еven the worst days of my life will always еnd / At ...
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Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Bob Dylan - Boots of Spanish Leather Lyrics
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This book stated that Spanish Boots/Leather represented torture during and after the Spanish Civil War. Thus, it was interpreted that the man was saying, "you' ...
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Bob Marley and the Wailers - Three Little Birds Lyrics
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Yes, he did partake in many things, but most of all he belived in the "good book." The "three little birds" refer to God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. One ...
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Bob Marley and the Wailers - Redemption Song Lyrics
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In other words, I think he is saying that Africans shouldn't just accept oppression as a part of life, but that they should live up to the ideals of the true ...
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OutKast - B.O.B. Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older ...
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Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man Lyrics
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The song is a spoof on the media. Mr. Jones is a journalist. Bob was upset about how the paparazzi invaded his privacy and reporters were always asking him what ...
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Bob Dylan - Tomorrow Is a Long Time Lyrics
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This song is about the meaning of life and love to me. What do you love about life? I love nature, mountains, rivers. I love the sun, the moon and the stars. I ...
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Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Bob Dylan - Oh, Sister Lyrics
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25 Comments ... "father" could be god. so sister could really mean any women. also "Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore. You may not see me tomorrow." is a ...
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Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Lyrics
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The obvious major theme of this song is Dylans moving on out of the folk scene, and giving a kind of warning to others than you can't stop change. But as is so ...
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Bob Seger - Turn The Page Lyrics
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Although this song does have many literal implications about being on the road I believe the deeper meaning of this is referring to a past relationship with ...
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Bob Dylan - 4th Time Around Lyrics
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So the song is just describing an encounter he had with one girl (his 4th girlfriend) that taught him that the more you accept from your girl, the more she will ...
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Bob Dylan - Queen Jane Approximately Lyrics
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Queen Jane approximately is a reference to a person Bob knows, a person caught up in his/her lifestyle of misplaced morals and pursuits. A person Bob wishes ...
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Bob Dylan - Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) Lyrics
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My two bits: This song represents the desperation Dylan felt in his life as he fully came to understand the darkness and futility of the world. Dylan sees those ...
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Bob Dylan - Hurricane Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Bob Dylan - Sara Lyrics
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' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate.
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Bob Marley and the Wailers - Small Axe Lyrics
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The "small axe" is the people, which Marley claims will rise up and take down the "big tree" that is the government. While that would eventually happen, Marley ...
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Drive-By Truckers - Bob Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping. ... This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others ...
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Bob Dylan - Forever Young Lyrics
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Second, the song is a prayer and that you find eternity in truth, courage, righteousness, justice, kindness, honesty and love. Dare to be all you can be by ...
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Bob Dylan - Girl from the North Country Lyrics
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A song of dedication to a true love that has been lost. Not a wanting of return of the girl but to make sure that she is taken care of because her comfort calms ...
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Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me Babe Lyrics
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This song reminds me of coming out of a bad relationship and meeting someone great but you just don't have the energy to start another relationship and give ...
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Bob Marley and the Wailers - Duppy Conqueror Lyrics
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Such dreams are considered to be bad luck in Jamaica. Bob said when he was alive that he had the same ghost visit him several times and then all of the sudden ...
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Bob Dylan - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere Lyrics
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It immediately hints at hopelessness, nihilism and world weariness. The first words quickly express how effimeral and transient things are with symbolic ...
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Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics
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This was for rich people and poor people. He claimed that the Tambourine Man symbolized DEATH and that's it. The entire song is about death and not drugs. He ...
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Bob Marley and the Wailers - Iron Lion Zion Lyrics
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It means : Im gonna as Strong (Iron) as God (Lion) in Heaven (Zion). Think about it, the Rastafarian belief has its CONVICTIONS and a Rasta cannot be deterred ...
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Bob Seger - Night Moves Lyrics
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It was a relationship that was sexual and exploratory in nature, more than based on romantic notions of love and such. "Working on mysteries without any clues." ...
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Bob Dylan - Every Grain of Sand Lyrics
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'Onward in my journey I come to understand/That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand'. These grains of sand that reminded Dylan of his 'Master's hand ...
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Bob Dylan - One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) Lyrics
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This song is about a guy who falls in love with an uneducated, beautiful, mysterious, travelling gypsy who he is love with, but her commitment is to nature and ...
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Bob Dylan - Quinn the Eskimo (Mighty Quinn) Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Bob Dylan - All I Really Want to Do Lyrics
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This song is about the pursuit of simple friendship, free from the complexities of love, family, politics, and judgement...maybe.
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Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited Lyrics
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I believe this song is about the History of American music and how it relates to Highway 61. The first verse is about Gospel music and Hymns, like the Cristian ...
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Bob Marley and the Wailers - Natty Dread Lyrics
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This ...
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Bob Marley and the Wailers - No Woman No Cry Lyrics
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Bob Marley is singing to his best friend, the woman he loves. He is singing about all the good and bad times he has had with her. He is asking her to be strong ...
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Bob Seger - Like A Rock Lyrics
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Like a Rock, released 1986, is a protest song set 20 years after the fact, It's about remembering how we were when the country was young (the 60's in this case) ...
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Bob Dylan - Ring Them Bells Lyrics
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This song is about humanity turning their back on god "it's rush hour now, on the wheel and the plow" Progress, business, money.
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Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping. ... This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, ...
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Bob Dylan - I and I Lyrics
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I and I is an expression to totalize the concept of oneness, the oneness of two persons. So God is within all of us and we're one people in fact. The term is ...
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