AND, I also recently finished a bio on Nick Drake. Ps: I think Bob got a Congressional medal of poetic license, so he's allowed to say "knowed". 'course, by they time they get there, my back might have some knives already attached. Though if there's anywhere where there's likely someone perceptive who's got your back, it's here on reddit.
Trust me, give me long enough & there's a good chance I'll say something to offend! Not that I necessarily intend that, it just seems to happen. The friendly person who's barely hanging on to a linguistic outcropping, is quite kind to be interested in whatever else I have to say. Music, however, is fairly safe to comment on, though it's a mine field, too. Adams remark), one is dissuaded from commenting on anything (& I have a big mouth, too!), as it's frustrating to be accused of total bs, and that it can become impossible to prove a point with belligerent psychos. (Look Mom! I just went back in time & ended slavery! Can I have a cookie?!)Ĭonsequently (&, of course, after having to tell all my black friends that they must now shun me b/c of my J. 'course, armchair observationists are just that, & I'd like to see these self-righteous accusers go back in time & show us all just how THEY would have made it all better back then. Not long ago - elsewhere on the net - I posted a political comment about John Adams, and how I thought he might have been, overall, the most pragmatic and forceful member of the usa's "founding fathers".(Last year I finally got around to reading David McCollough's excellent book about Adams, so I thought I knew a thing or two about him) But I was accused of being a bigot & racist for saying anything positive about him or any of those other rich white guys (Adams was one of the few non-rich guys.) because they all had let slavery be a part of the original structure of the usa. I mean, at least I wasn't drawn & quartered as can happen to anyone making a seemingly innocent post. 'Ello! Just thought I stop back this morning to see if anyone else had anything to say about this great song, & was pleasantly surprised at the comments. hence, that eternal alternative: The Road! It also is a quiet vicarious sigh over a melancholic personal situation. and kinda makes me like playing this song. And I can play a kind of double time fingerpicking thing for an instrumental break, which makes it all fun - but heavy, too. I know I feel a more complete sense of assured finality (like "assured guarantee"?) with the lyrics this way in this progression. she was probably young - & hot! - but that only goes so far. Too clutching, un-independent, and insecure. I mean, it's really all about his lover's intractable possessiveness that creates the schism.
Anyway, if you dig in, I think it makes more sense to present the story this way (not that writers in the 60's always made sense! & therein lies quite a paradox.), at least to me. So long honey, babe Where I'm bound, I can't tell But goodbye's too good a word, babe So I'll just say fare thee well I'm a-thinking and a-wond'rin' walking down the road I once loved a woman, a child I'm told I give her my heart but she wanted my soul But don't think twice, it's all right. We never did too much talking anyway(!) But don't think twice, it's all right. It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal Like you never done before It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal I can't hear you any more But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say To try and make me change my mind and stay. It ain't no use in turning on your light, babe That light I never knowed And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe I'm on the dark side of the road Now I ain't saying you treated me unkind You could have done better but I don't mind You just kinda wasted alotta precious time But don't think twice, it's all right. It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don't matter, anyhow And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don't know by now When your rooster crows at the breaks of dawn Look out your window and I'll be gone You're the reason I'm traveling on But don't think twice, it's all right. Wherever!.AND, after extensive testing, I re-shuffled the lyrics this way: or one o' 'em.īut ya know, I been singing it off & on, now & then, here & there, by & by, o'er hill 'n' dale. Perhaps the greatest breakup song of all time. They don't make 'em like this anymore, do they.
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