Like Alec who started the thread I do not mean to be accusatory or inflammatory. But I really think if you don't 'get' the song it's because you either have never had injustice weigh on you, or you are not an empathetic person, not that there is something faulty in the song.

The line quoted above "How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man?" I guess you have to feel in your own mind what it's like to go to WW II, return, be a responsible adult, and have people still think they can call you 'boy', and wonder how blessed long this must go on.   If you can't relate, I guess you can't relate, but I can't see tearing up a beautiful moving song over it.