The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #149706   Message #3487130
Posted By: The Sandman
06-Mar-13 - 01:24 PM
Thread Name: Nailing your colours to the mast...
Subject: RE: Nailing your colours to the mast...
the times are a changing, at the time seemed important, it may have a few weaknesses, but it also had power.
paul macCartney is [imo] technically a very good lyrics writer, use of meter, internal rhymes, use of assonance,but he does not bother much about trying to change the world.,
but shes leaving home has a power and an empathy that a lot of people understand.
dylans best song imo here, may have a couple of technical weaknesses, but it is still powerful





Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain.

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud.

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.
verse 3 ends with dylan sort of enigmatic rubbish,[ like i see through etc] but despite that it is still a great song that uses a trad tune,
so a great song can still have a few flaws