Nostradamus!! Dylan was a prophet! Or...everybody who was around at the time knows this was about dope.
I was in college 1969-1973 and my cousin who is just a bit older than me told me all about the SDS. Now my mother, an Oklahoma Democrat, thinks that cousin is a wierdo. Even my mother has been fooled by the liberal democrat party. When you try to tell her about the Weathermen and SDS and liberals taking over her party she thinks the messenger is nuts. She won’t believe it. Well, I lived it, and it is true, they took over the Democrat party. It is sick and sad.
I have decided that this is my nominee for "Lamest Post of the Year"
What about the line,”The pump don’t work cause the vandals took the handle”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xIulyVsG8
But that isn't the first time he's been accused of clairvoyance. He did actually begin performing A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall some time before the Cuban Missile Crisis. Creeped a lot of people out.
There are some people who don't like his voice - the Guardian once called it a "catarrhal death rattle." I sense a certain negativity there...
Unless I (and HumanEvents) got the time line wrong, and he wrote the song AFTER the bombings began, this is really weird. Check out the following lyrics from the Dylan tune. It almost seems like he knew in advance what Ayers and company were planning. Yet Dylan claims today he wasn’t even in to the radical politics of the sixties and seventies.
[snip]
I report, you decide.
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The song in question was released in april of 1965. You can look it up.
Ayers and company did not use bombs until, what, 1969?
You got the timeline wrong, all right.
*Subterranean ping*
The pump don’t work cause the vandals broke the handle...I HATE when that happens, although I live in a state where I don’t have to pump my own gas.
"They took their name from the lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," from the Bob Dylan song "Subterranean Homesick Blues". They also used this lyric as the title of a position paper they distributed at an SDS convention in Chicago on June 18, 1969, as part of a special edition of New Left Notes.
Oh, Bama
Can this really be the end?
To be stuck inside of Denver
With the Chicago blues again.
Mother's in the kitchen Washing out the jugs;
Sister's in the pantry Bottling the suds;
Father's in the cellar Mixing up the hops;
Johnny's on the front porch Watching for the cops
This election can be summed up as Bob Dylan’s Revenge.
I didn’t like his whiny, no talent (to me but then I think Neil Diamond is not a singer either) ass then, and I don’t like it now. I didn’t like the airheaded losers who rocked to his crap then, and I don’t like them now. I didn’t like The Weathermen then, and I don’t like their wigger act now.