What's Bob Dylan's song "Changing of the Guards" about?
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Lyrically, this song has provoked much critical insight, both positive and negative. According to Oliver Trager, "Changing of the Guards" has been criticized as a "song in which Dylan unsuccessfully and cynically parodies his anthemic self in haunting fashion..." But many have found much depth and meaning in the song's lyrics. Michael Gray sees this song as a thorough description of Dylan's journey, from the beginning of his musical career, about sixteen years prior (the opening line is "Sixteen years"), through his marriage and divorce with Sara Dylan, up to his soon-to-be-announced conversion to Christianity. Indeed, much religious and biblical imagery is readily apparent in this work, especially apocalyptic imagery (not new ground for Dylan). Dylan once commented: "It means something different every time I sing it. 'Changing of the Guards' is a thousand years old'". However, even the song's critical supporters admit that there is a good amount of opacity in this song's lyrics: "Like much in 'Changing of the Guards,' the intended meaning of this passage is opaque..."
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Yes we know who you are refering to, GWB. But it was written in the 60's for LBJ. Another POS. you should get The 30th Aniversay Concert Celebration CD, Eddie Vedder sings this song as a tribute, it's awesome. makes you get goosebumps.
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I love Niel, but Dylan is a better Songwriter. Check out the lyrics to "tweeter and the monkey man" (a Wilbuys take) but a Dylan song. The best!
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Against the Wind\n\nBTW: He was advised not to include these lyrics as he had written them. His advisors (producer I suppose) wanted something more conventional like "wish I had known then what I know now."
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from a POSTER about a circus....\n\nOn January 31, 1967 the Beatles went to Knole Park near Sevenoaks in Kent to make the promotional film for Strawberry Fields Forever. "There was an antique shop close to the hotel we were using in Sevenoaks," remembers former Apple employee Tony Bramwell. "John and I wandered in and John spotted this framed Victorian circus poster and bought it."\n\nInspired by the finely-wrought language and the evocative names of the performers on the poster, John began to compose a song based on it.\n\nThe poster mentions "The Celebrated Horse Zanthus" (not Henry, the horse's name in the song), contains several references to the Hendersons, and advertises Mr. Henderson's "TRAMPOLINE LEAPS AND SOMERSETS! Over Men & Horses, through Hoops, over Garters and lastly through a Hogshead of REAL FIRE!"\nPaul : 'Mr. Kite' was a poster that John had in his house in Weybridge. I arrived there for a session one day nad he had it up on the wall in his living room. It was all there, the trampoline, the somersets, the hoops, the garters, the horse. It was Pablo Fanque's fair, and it said 'being for the benefit of Mr. Kite', almost the whole song was written right off this poster. We just sat down and wrote it. We pretty much took it down word for word and then just made up some little bits and pieces to glue it together. It was more John's beacuse it was his poster so he ended up singing it, but it was quite a co-written song. We were both sitting there to write it at his house, just looking at it on the wall in the living room. But that was nice, it wrote itself very easily. Later George Martin put a fairground sound on it.
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"I Fought the Law" by the Bobby Fuller Four, 1966 I believe.\n\nThe Clash did an awesome cover of it!\n\n(Who the hairy heck is David Lloyd?)
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Lay Lady Lay by Bob Dylan \n \nAlbum:  Nashville Skyline \nDate:  1969 \nU.S. Chart:  7 \nU.K. Chart:  5 \n\n\nDylan wrote this for the 1969 movie Midnight Cowboy. Harry Nilsson's "Everybody's Talkin'," which was released the year before, was chosen for the theme song instead. \nHarry Nilsson wrote "I Guess the Lord Must Be In New York City" for the same movie. The director had asked for a song that sounded like Nilsson's previous recorded cover of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talking." The director finally decided to use the older "Everybody's Talking," and was proven right when the song won an Oscar. (thanks, Leo - Hilversum, Netherlands) \nThis was one of many Dylan songs covered by The Byrds, who also recorded "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Just Like A Woman," and "The Times They Are A-Changin'." There are 2 versions of this on their 2002 Dylan cover compilation, The Byrds Play Dylan. \nMany radio stations refused to play this simply because of the use of the word "lay" in the title, assuming it referred to sex (i.e. "get laid"). Despite the accusation of being "Sexually Titled", Dylan denied any sexual terminology. \nCassandra Wilson covered this for her album Glamoured. In 2001, shortly after the release of his Love and Theft album, Bob Dylan himself went on record as saying "I love everything she does," and said she was the only good thing on the radio (which, he mentioned, "makes hideous sounds"). (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada, for above 2)
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i always understood it to be a reference to westerners oblivious attitude to global events.\n\noverall the song is about the american nations decrepit values and brainwashing of children, about how its been like this since its inception (wich i question) and how it corrupts and destroys everything it touches (wich i more or less agree with) \n\nthe sleep now in the fire is also about being oblivious to americas internal problems and not noticing the flames of self destruction that dooms us all. \n\nwe all just sleep peacefully in the hell that surrounds us, "comfortably numb"
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Yes Pearl Jam had a song on their Yield Album to that effect. It is a very powerful song about the negativity of the way human culture has developed rather the evolution of man. A very cool film clip too which borrows ideas primarily from George Orwells 1984.
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The song is about life and death and what all happen to the world around us.\n\nAt the end of the day it's important what you read in the lyrics and what it means to you.
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Well Bob Dylan must know.
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Eddie Vedder-\n\n "The child in that song obviously has a learning difficulty. And it's only in the last few years that they've actually been able to diagnose these learning disabilities that before were looked at as misbehaviour,as just outright ****ing rebelliousness. But no one knew what it was. And these kids, because they seemed unable or reluctant to learn, they'd end up getting the **** beaten outta them. The songs ends, you know, with this idea of the shades going down- so that the nighbours can't see what happens next. What hurts about **** like that is that it ends up defining peoples' lives. They have to live with that abuse for the rest of thier lives. Good, creative people are just ****ing destroyed."
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Unknown author\nFor those who manned the battle line the bugle whispers low--- and Freedom has a taste and price the protected never know..\nIt's not from "Song Of Myself"-\nby Walt Whitman\nFrom the book "Leaves of Grass"
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The song "Soldier Side", by System of a Down is about young men going off to war and never coming home.\n\n"They were crying when their sons left.\nGod is wearing black. He has gon so far\nto find the truth he's never going back."
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I don't know who bob dylan is, but try googling it or searching it on yahoo.....
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Bob Seger's, "Against The Wind". Just a shot in the dark, very limited information to go on.
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my guess is bob dylan