Posted on 10/07/2023 7:10:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
Bob Dylan - Neighborhood Bully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ETdLfXI6r8
Hmmmmm! So many appropriate targets for this.
Neighborhood jihadi bullies about to get stomped like never before.
And hopefully the instigators outside the immediate neighborhood as well (Iran).
Great album. Sly and Robbie.
And a timely song.
Could’ve been an even better album if Dylan had chosen to include “Foot of Pride” and “Blind Willie McTell,” both recorded during the same sessions, and imo among Bob’s best tunes.
Cool song.
Lyrics?? What language is this in??
Dylanese.
Hard to understand but I think the “neighborhood bully” in this song is Israel and the Jews.
I wish he had or would write a song about the REAL neighborhood bully - the Islamic jihadists who would love to behead you if they only could, and someday will on a worldwide scale after the church is gone with Jesus into Heaven.
It’s Dylan, “Neighborhood Bully” is tongue-in-cheek, about how her enemies call Israel a “Bully”.
One of my favorite songs
Lyrics - read them while you listen to the song:
You need to read the lyrics while listening to the song.
Every empire that's enslaved him is gone
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand...
Right, I figured that out.
I don’t think anybody really thinks of Israel or the Jews as bullies, so even though clever, I think it misses the point. The Jews have been trashed for 2000 years. Seems like this is just another song - “tongue-in cheek” - that trashes them again. I think it could even could play into the hands of Israel’s enemies.
I think he should be singing about the REAL neighborhood bullies - the Islamic Jihadists. Why is there a certain fear about doing something like that? The Islamic Jihadists already have a certain hold on a very fearful world.
Right, I figured that out.
I don’t think anybody really thinks of Israel or the Jews as bullies, so even though clever, I think it misses the point. The Jews have been trashed for 2000 years. Seems like this is just another song - “tongue-in cheek” - that trashes them again. I think it could even could play into the hands of Israel’s enemies.
I think he should be singing about the REAL neighborhood bullies - the Islamic Jihadists. Why is there a certain fear about doing something like that? The Islamic Jihadists already have a certain hold on a very fearful world.
That ain't the Palis, that's for sure.
His song isis was pretty good too, thouhg not about the terror group isis.
Of course the REAL neighborhood bully is who the Bible says is “a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him...”
Timely in today’s news - the Palestinians (Hamas), “neighborhood bully” in Gaza, once again attacking Israel.
Infidels is my favorite Dylan album.
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