Posted on 06/19/2002 11:45:18 AM PDT by dennisw
Amazing Dylan lyrics on Israel. Must read the entire lyrics.
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The Neighborhood Bully
by Bob Dylan - 1983
Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.
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,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.
Hah. You're doomed :))).
That's a bit too easy, I'm afraid. Please explain to us about your material on the "Jewish genocidal hatred". Against white people, to boot.
But it gets away from me sometimes.
It does? Nothing gets away from me. You must learn to focus, Pinlighter. Answer the question, please.
That's wierd. I saw him several years ago and he absolutely trashed all his songs and sounded, even for him, absolutely awful. He also looked like he was rode hard and put away wet. I pretty much prefer pre-crash Bob.
Dunno if you understand it or not, but it does have a significance. It stands for "Zionist Occupied Government" and is sort of an ideological plank for neo-Nazis everywhere. One of the owners of an American Nazi site, faem.com, who is a former US military man, claims to be the inventor of the term. Much as LarryLied claims to be the inventor of a favourite term of his - "holocaustism" - which only appears on various Nazi and holocoust-denial sites.
It's an unfortunate name to put on a kids page, I'd say.
1) You know the information is accurate.
Duhh, like I’ve said several times before, scientist.
1-A I don’t know about the validity of the list.
1-B I’d guess that every one of those identified as Jews were Jews or their parents were.
1-C I reject the list though based both on my belief that communists adhere to no religion, as well as the missing Christians.
1-D You’re suggesting there was not one Christian in the communist hierarchy?
1-E Similar lists can be constructed to prove National Socialism was a purely Christian enterprise. An equally false and hateful conclusion. 1-F The structure of the data is bogus, the source is bogus, the conclusion is bogus (talking about Nazism as a Christian invention, don’t care what you think about Jews and Communism).
2) You want to obfusticate the information with attacks ad hominem
Ad hominem? No sir.
I’ve been straightforeward. Your data comes from historical revisiónist sites and hate sites. That’s a fact, easily verified, sources you defend, not obfuscation. Readers can accept it, or ignore it based on the source.
I see. Do you have any literature references for this rather novel interpretation of history?
Where's my e-mail?
Don't be so impatient, Pinlighter :). It'll come when it comes.
I agree, probably because I listened to it way too much when I was a kid.
That one, he had a co-writer too. I love his older (newer, I mean) old man lyrics. "Time Out of Mind" is so depressing("it's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there") it makes me laugh. Plus, it's just beautiful. Love this thread. I could go on and on about Dylan.
I believe he is a Christian, still. Still plenty of suggestions of it in his lyrics.
Nah, don't be sorry. The thread is churning out good information. Although the way the wind is blowing you'd almost think we weren't in Kansas anymore :)).
What about Street Legal? "The vows that we kept have been broken and swept 'neath the bed where we slept".
That tune is so dull but the lyrics turn it into a song. Again, so funny, talented, and devastated-
I enjoy "Saved". Didn't expect anyone to mention it on this thread. I bought a new copy and listened to it for the first time in 20 years, last year. All the lyrics I'd forgotten, came back to me immediately.
Time Out Of Mind: I don't understand Cold Irons Bound, but think it's one of the best songs.
Current favorite lyric from that album: "...big white clouds, like chariots that swing down low...well my hearts in the high-lands..." And "I'm already there in my mind. That's good enough for now."
Any conservative woman comes on this thread praising Time out Of Mind, I'm going to send her love notes thru freeper mail.
Live 1966 is great: particularly the knock-out "I don't believe you". This was one of the concerts where the audience was upset at the rock 'n roll. Someone from the Scot communist party yells out "Judas!"
I think most in the audience were complaining because of the volume, not the electricity. It sure is ear-splitting when I play it.
After the Judas yell, Dylan can be heard saying to the band , "play f*ing LOUD" and he goes into an accusatory "Like A Rolling Stone". It's marvelous. And at the end just some smattering of applause. It was 1966 after all.
Theres a forum over at bobdylan.com. Guardian socialists asking questions like: "Was Dylan certifiably insane when he converted ?" He sure upsets some people.
"Lay Lady Lay" (on Skyline) and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" are my two fave Bobby D tunes.
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