What is your favorite song that has no real consensus on what it's about?
I'll start with one of mine. Between the Bars - Elliott Smith.
This is one of his most popular songs that I have always interpreted as the bottle of alcohol having a conversation with the person. I had a conversation with a friend who is also a huge Elliott fan who thinks its got a different meaning (my interpretation being the most common one I think)
Such a beautifully written song if you haven't heard it. I think most if not all of Elliotts songs can be interpreted in multiple ways as he was a true master of his craft but this one I think has the strongest dispute.
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Mr Tambourine Man by Dylan.
There are more theories than words in the song. Same as American Pie and A Horse with no Name.
I often wonder whether the writer is sitting in a corner having a good ol' chuckle reading the theories.
My own theory is that he was off his head on acid an ' saw a guy with a tambourine the size of a bin lid an' took it from there.
Sid
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@OutOfTowner Agreed on that interpretation - I think it's pretty blatant, even.
@sidshovel One of my favorite Dylan lines is in that one: "And but for the sky, there are no fences facing." I mean, what a magnificently poetic way to say "the sky's the limit." He's an absolute wonder of a writer, 60+ years and counting.
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60+ he's 83, but technically you're correct, an' still a great writer!
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I was referring to his 60+ years of writing masterpieces.
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Can't argue with that!
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Just thinkin' on those numbers, I wonder if Dylan holds the record for the longest span of songwriting?
Anyone know of somebody else who beats him?
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Kiss From a Rose - By Seal
In Your Eyesl - By Robert Palmer
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds -- Beatles
My Back Pages -- Dylan and as performed by The Byrds
Carefree Highway -- Gordon Lightfoot
Tuesday's Dead -- Bitterblue -- Morning Has Broken -- All by Cat Stevens
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Well technically Cat Stevens didn't write Morning Has Broken, only did an arrangement of it. Eleanor Farjeon wrote it. Swap it for Longer Boats!
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Why do you want to understand it for ? Then you have to think about the deep meaning on a trip to Walmart to buy Chili
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