Dylan & the dead hav[ing] eyes These things are just hooks, fish hooks in the back of your neck... nothing means anything, people just showing off, dancing to a pack of lies – lotta people gotta be dead first before anybody takes notice, the same people who praise you when you’re dead, when you were alive they wouldn’t give you the time of day. I like to wonder about some of these people who elevated John Lennon to such a mega-god as if when he was alive they were always on his side. I wonder who they think he was singing to when he sang ‘just give me some truth. ‘ You never know do you? When people don’t get threatened and challenged, I mean in some kind of way, they don’t get confronted, never have to make decisions, they never take a stand, they never grow, live their lives in a fishtank, stay in the same old scene forever, die and never get a break or a chance to say goodbye. I have views contrary to all that. I think that this world is just a passing-through place and that the dead have eyes and that even the unborn can see and I don’t care who knows it. I don’t know, I can go off on tangents... things that got nothing to do with music... The great folk music and the great rock n’ roll, you might not hear it again. Like the horse and buggy. Sure, a horse and buggy is more soulful than a car but it takes longer to get where you’re going and besides that, you could get killed on the road.” [1985]
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:21:32 +0000