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Artist:

Bob Dylan

Song:

Like A Rolling Stone

Album: 

Highway 61 Revisited

Year: 

1965

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Bob Dylan began as a Woody Guthrie acolyte, imitating the dust-bowl balladeer as faithfully as a baby boomer from Hibbing, Minnesota, could. It...
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The Meaning of "Like a Rolling Stone"

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TAGS: Like a Rolling Stone, ballad, Bob Dylan, meaning, 1965, Highway 61 Revisited, poem

PUBLISHED: June 28, 2009

Bob Dylan is a brilliant artist that has meanings to his songs. But would you call them songs? I wouldn't. I would go more with ballads; songs that have meaning to them...like poems. Like a Rolling Stone is one of the most popular known songs of Bob Dylan in the 60s and even now. The question is why? Is it the tune? Is it the words? Or is it the meaning held in those mere words? What do these words mean? This songs means that you should watch out if you live a good life; something or anything could happen and you could lose it all. A rich/fortunate person (Dylan hints that it's most likely a woman) has the perfect, wealthy life and ignores the warnings of life and falls hard with nothing left to spare. Because they did not see it coming, they have no clue what to do. Watching all their peers live fortunately, what would you do? "You better take a diamond ring--you better pawn it babe!" Yeah, buy stuff from things you wouldn't ever dream of buying from. This ballad/song/poem (whatever you like to call it) is like a warning to those who want to become famous and those who are famous. Fame and fortune is the beauty of becoming popular world-wide/nation-wide, but there are things that can make you fall and not be able to get back up. You need to know how it would feel to be anything you can never imagine being; like a rolling stone :) . Bob Dylan has multiple songs like this that has meanings, but if you google this and find out the meaning; don't blame me that I am wrong. I read between the lines and that is the beauty in which Bob Dylan has created. Everyone obviously has their own views on everything. You have just experienced my view to Like a Rolling Stone. Listen to the ballad/song/poem, analyze the words, and then read between the lines (your opinion to what it all means). Feel free to tell me your views, I'll be happy to read them all :)

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