a lot of these dylan interpreters have appeared on my list of videos lately.....watched one where three guys were talking serious dylan stuff when a member of the audience asked have any of you ever net dylan and they all said no.....then i ask myself what does that matter?....has this guy ever met dylan?.....bobbie is obviously from another dimension and just happened to grow up on earth....bob the d has ALWAYS been my hero....i discovered him in 1968 peeling potatoes for the army....have never stopped listening to him.....
Several of Dylan's songs have a female image as a salvation figure, like Dante's Beatrice; "come in she said, I'll give you shelter..." , "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"... "...as lady and I look out tonight on Desolation Row... "Visions of Johanna"... I could go on... That "Pete Townshend" quote "...eyesight to the blind" [6:51] is from bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson.
"The preacher rides a mount and doom alone that counts". I believe this is reference the high priests oof the church who were the primary force demanding crucifixion, they rode around on mules all the way up to Calvery. The doom, was their intention, they viewed Jesus as a threat to their position and the beliefs of their church, their perceived doom of Jesus was the only thing they cared about. "Silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair, she walked to me so gracefully, took my crown of thorns". I believe this is a reference to Mary Magdalene and her rebirth and washing the feet of Jesus when she became a follower.
This makes a lot of sense. And Dylan made tons of Bible references long before his Christian period. Gates of Eden is another one. The Times They Are A-Changing. It's brilliant how he used it in his lyrics--particularly in Shelter from the Storm.
I know Dylan denies this, but Shelter from the Storm is obviously about his marriage to Sara, just told with Biblical references to Jesus, and maybe a little bit of Anton Chekhov's philosophy thrown in.
Why can’t this song just be about Grace… falling from it and then being given it once again. Maybe the beauty of Dylan’s music is that it is so difficult to interpret! It’s all YOUR interpretation and how it speaks to the individual in a meaningful way and then what we do with it “that counts” in my humble view
Because his words are important enough to be understood like stories from the Bible. It’s obvious he’s a unique genius that’s on the level of other icons or prophets such as MLK. It’s also about our history and a timepiece.
Certainly the singer here identifies his suffering with that of Christ, with the hope or promise of grace, as you say. But who is this Christ and what is it in those ancient writings that is to be found?
I think this is a song about Christ's relationship with our faith, his church, the woman he sings about in the song. Christ is the groom and is married to the church, the bride. Our faith in him builds his church, which gives him shelter from the storm of the sins of the world that he must bare. He needs us like we need him. He is in a foreign land now but will return and make the world beautiful. We adorden our faith/church with silver and flowers, and this releaves the crown of thorns by giving his suffering meaning. I well up every time I hear this song because it's truth is that God needs us like we need him.
I agree with you..often Dylan's lyrics sound biblical but it's just his preferred imagery.I.am sure this is centred on Sara who gave him refuge from rock and roll fall out from the state of collapse he had been in when he was coming off drugs..
Dylan said the song is about his ex and the dissolution of his marriage. She was good to him until she wasn't, but still he has good feelings about the good times they had. The Christ analogies highlights her betrayal and his feelings of abandonment when he needed her support.
Jesus is our Shelter from the Storm.... My Favorite Dylan song..,.live at Red Rocks Colorado Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High School California USA
I think Dylan is surrealistic - it is not supposed to literally mean something specific. But this certainly helps you understand where some of the imagery comes from, and it's significance.
I think this song is a tribute to Joan and Sara who often 6:22 gave him shelter from the growing craziness of his career. It may also have an underlining religious theme.
Great analysis. Perhaps he is contrasting the ideas you raise here, with bitter scorn at the fact that his marriage, ultimately, provided him no shelter from the storm.
It seems to me you are on a good track here. Keep up the good work! Whatever happens, Jesus is Lord. He suffered on the cross and then conquered death so that we can overcome death with his testimony. Jesus is Lord! and I believe Bob saw that clearly and wanted to write and sing about it, in his own mysterious way.
bob dylan himself has said that his words are for your own interpretation, so this is one person take on it but to call it an absolute would be a betrayal to his words
The Baptist announcedvthe Kingdom of Heaven on Earth -: it was the Body of Jesus it is now the Earthly body of the Risen Christ -: the ECCLESIA in the scripture
I think it’s being over analyzed… it’s poetry… with Dylan using references both understood and not… understood… lines that are separate and not necessarily connected… “ Blood On The Tracks “… collectively was written around Dylan’s marriage coming apart… and divorce… there’s entirely too many things… left to speculation… about what Bob or his wife Sarah… were going through. Personally… I think of this period of Dylan’s career… as a very productive time with three of my favorite studio albums in a row… “ Planet Waves “… “ Blood On The Tracks “… and “ Desire “ … quite a remarkable period… with each album played over and over… by me… I enjoy them each in their own right. … Once again… Thanks… Bob… for all the music 🎶 🌜🌞🌛
I don't look for a deep, mysterious meaning. The movie in my head is being weary and tired from life and a feminine, kind and caring woman offers "shelter from the storm".
I don’t care what it’s exactly about unless Bob Dylan wants to explain it. I love this song no matter what you say. You’re acting like Indiana Jones and you are ridiculous😂
He was heavily influenced by the Bible, even from the beginning. He would even convert to Christianity in the late 70s, but you dont have to belong to a religion to read and be inspired by their scripture.
To know Bible verses is not to understand the Bible.I don't know many people that know bible verses but don't know what that means ash jesus he'll tell you
Go ahead search the Scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life and they are they that testify of me.... And the angel told Joseph that he was to take Mary as his wife and unto them the Messiah would be born. Joseph said get out of here that's not what w e believe it's not even close. And the Angel said it's not what you've been taught. I'm telling you straight up that is how it's going to be. So Joseph took Mary as his wife and unto them the child was born. Joseph was a just man and Mary a virgin, the handmaid of our Creator, God's wisdom the feminine principle of the Elohim. The only part of God's mind we can know. She is the teacher. My love she speaks in silence without ideals or violence doesn't have to say she's faithful but she's true like ice or fire... We're living in a world where people expect everything to be handed to them. What's the meaning of your songs they all wanted to know. I don't know what you're talking about go ask somebody else. By the time the 80's rolled around Bob's singing reached a point you could barely make out what he was singing about. What does it matter they don't understand what I'm saying anyway? I'm at the end of the video now and there's a picture of Jesus on the wall, white Jesus. Imagine how that would make you feel if you were black. Jesus is white, Santa is white, Uncle Sam is white. I know how I would feel. No matter what I ever did or could say I could never be part of that world. Now imagine if you walked into a Church and on the wall it had a picture of Jesus and he was black. Big afro, full lips and flared nostrils. Would you still go to Church and call yourself a Christian? Be honest with yourself what I think about you doesn't matter. If I say Jesus died for my sins isn't that saying I killed Jesus? Should I be rewarded for believing that? Jesus didn't come to save anybody he came to show us how to overcome the death that came in the beginning. Nobody in this world told you that you are already dead they told you that after you die is when you either go to Heaven or Hell. God is the God of the living not the dead...
"She" is Wisdom. Wisdom in the Bible is referred to in the feminine "she, her, lady" and Wisdom from God gives "shelter" to those who know it. Shelter from the corruption and deception and misery of the world. Wisdom (She) applies to each verse in the music that it is used here. Wisdom was "born" from the beginning... PROVERBS 8:22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. PROVERBS 8:34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.
she was probably a harlot who took him in , when he was at his weakest & what seemed to be shelter, later turned out to be an error Beware of blasphemy , not saying this is a song of one but as you know they do exist ...You sound like you're trying to make something good out of something worldly to me ..I can take the lyrics of the song Sheep from PF, believe it or not & make it something you wouldn't expect, when it sounds like anti scripture . What we want isn't always what we need & the imagination can be deceitful in deed Who is the author of confusion bro?
This is about the eternal feminine. It’s not about Jesus. All the male characters-including the storyteller are harsh or lost. He is given nurturing and respite by a woman. Why can’t there be a woman with silver bracelets and flowers in her hair?
No doubt the song is clothered in Western mysticism,. However, with a little closer looking, a lot of Easterism mysterism can also be discerned, typical of Dylan
What did Jesus Warn us most about . False teacher. The Good news of the Kingdom is beautiful and forever . This lady offers temporary peace. This song is about the false Christianity. It steel the crown she overs Doom to scare you. She took clothes ect.
Sure he is Jewish, but he constantly refers to Jesus of Nazareth in his work from his very first album to Rough and Rowdy ways 2020. He's a literate man, like the Jewish philosopher Maimonides 1138-1204 he diolnges with various religious positions. Whether Bob is Messianic or some other type of Jew, I think his work has brought great richness to the world of the Torah and prophets and to the Christian world view too. In his recent 2022 interview for The Wall Street Journal he said " I'm a religious person. I read the Scriptures a lot, meditate and pray, light candles in church. I believe in damnation and salvation, as well as predestination. The Five Books of Moses, Pauline Epistles, Invocation of the Saints, all of it."
@@alisonbeek7766 The Jews I knew did not believe in after life. They had incredible mocking swear variations for Jesus. Dylan seemed to be the most well-read of the rockers, Bowie used tons of religious references, The Stones too. Religious imagery is pretty rich for mining as a writer of any sort.
The first verse tells you all you need to know about the songs intent . It says It was in another lifetime full of toil and blood blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud , I came in from the wilderness A creature devoid of form Come in she said I'll give ye shelter from the storm .
very cool .....Dylan is a master poet but also seemingly very conflicted between his Christianity and his secular leanings ......in an infamous interview with the late Ed Bradly he alludes to going to the crossroads and making and upholding his end of a "bargin with the supreme master and commander of the thing you see in this world and all the other things you cant see" to get where he is IE; fame and fortune ...an obvious reference to robert johnson's deal with the devil for fame and fortune. it seems to me that he may wish to escape his Faustian bargin by embraging Christianity ... but his often seemingly morose personna reveals that he knows the futility of that due to his iron clad contract with the devil he signed many decades ago .....
Love this!!!!!
a lot of these dylan interpreters have appeared on my list of videos lately.....watched one where three guys were talking serious dylan stuff when a member of the audience asked have any of you ever net dylan and they all said no.....then i ask myself what does that matter?....has this guy ever met dylan?.....bobbie is obviously from another dimension and just happened to grow up on earth....bob the d has ALWAYS been my hero....i discovered him in 1968 peeling potatoes for the army....have never stopped listening to him.....
Several of Dylan's songs have a female image as a salvation figure, like Dante's Beatrice; "come in she said, I'll give you shelter..." , "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"... "...as lady and I look out tonight on Desolation Row... "Visions of Johanna"... I could go on...
That "Pete Townshend" quote "...eyesight to the blind" [6:51] is from bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson.
The beauty of the art of music and lyrics is that it can weave a story and be relatable for many…
"The preacher rides a mount and doom alone that counts".
I believe this is reference the high priests oof the church who were the primary force demanding crucifixion, they rode around on mules all the way up to Calvery.
The doom, was their intention, they viewed Jesus as a threat to their position and the beliefs of their church, their perceived doom of Jesus was the only thing they cared about.
"Silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair, she walked to me so gracefully, took my crown of thorns". I believe this is a reference to Mary Magdalene and her rebirth and washing the feet of Jesus when she became a follower.
This makes a lot of sense. And Dylan made tons of Bible references long before his Christian period. Gates of Eden is another one. The Times They Are A-Changing. It's brilliant how he used it in his lyrics--particularly in Shelter from the Storm.
It matters because he’s such a unique genius who finds serenity for so many, secretly through his words.
I know Dylan denies this, but Shelter from the Storm is obviously about his marriage to Sara, just told with Biblical references to Jesus, and maybe a little bit of Anton Chekhov's philosophy thrown in.
Why can’t this song just be about Grace… falling from it and then being given it once again. Maybe the beauty of Dylan’s music is that it is so difficult to interpret! It’s all YOUR interpretation and how it speaks to the individual in a meaningful way and then what we do with it “that counts” in my humble view
Please tell me your interpretation. What this song by Dylan means to you.
@@marcusantonious8244 just a deep feeling in the soul! just feel, no thinking or interpretations! it is art!
Because his words are important enough to be understood like stories from the Bible. It’s obvious he’s a unique genius that’s on the level of other icons or prophets such as MLK. It’s also about our history and a timepiece.
If you can’t understand his meaning then you are missing out on something special.
Certainly the singer here identifies his suffering with that of Christ, with the hope or promise of grace, as you say. But who is this Christ and what is it in those ancient writings that is to be found?
I think this is a song about Christ's relationship with our faith, his church, the woman he sings about in the song. Christ is the groom and is married to the church, the bride. Our faith in him builds his church, which gives him shelter from the storm of the sins of the world that he must bare. He needs us like we need him. He is in a foreign land now but will return and make the world beautiful. We adorden our faith/church with silver and flowers, and this releaves the crown of thorns by giving his suffering meaning. I well up every time I hear this song because it's truth is that God needs us like we need him.
"Doom alone that counts" is in reference to fulfilling the prophecy.
Correct
Dylan's song is a tribute to his wife, Sara, who saved him from a life of destruction. All this overthinking is ridiculous.
I agree with you..often Dylan's lyrics sound biblical but it's just his preferred imagery.I.am sure this is centred on Sara who gave him refuge from rock and roll fall out from the state of collapse he had been in when he was
coming off drugs..
Dylan said the song is about his ex and the dissolution of his marriage. She was good to him until she wasn't, but still he has good feelings about the good times they had. The Christ analogies highlights her betrayal and his feelings of abandonment when he needed her support.
Dylan never said that. He said the critics said that and they were stupid and misleading.
Everybody sees a movie of a picnic and comes away saying they saw a movie of a murder. Everybody cept me
Jesus is our Shelter from the Storm....
My Favorite Dylan song..,.live at Red Rocks Colorado
Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High School California USA
I think Dylan is surrealistic - it is not supposed to literally mean something specific. But this certainly helps you understand where some of the imagery comes from, and it's significance.
think the lady in question is mother nature. She has no malice . no judgement or condemnation. just warmth and shelter.
I think this song is a tribute to Joan and Sara who often 6:22 gave him shelter from the growing craziness of his career. It may also have an underlining religious theme.
Great analysis.
Perhaps he is contrasting the ideas you raise here, with bitter scorn at the fact that his marriage, ultimately, provided him no shelter from the storm.
I believe people can interpret the song they way they want.
Dylan made a lot of allusions in his songs.
Some were silly and some were spot on...
and sometimes the cigar was just a cigar.
Peace on earth.
Why would people listen to music if they couldn’t derive meaning from it on their own?
Mary is the shelter from the storm. It is a womb like image. Think of the pieta.
Exactly.
It seems to me you are on a good track here. Keep up the good work! Whatever happens, Jesus is Lord. He suffered on the cross and then conquered death so that we can overcome death with his testimony. Jesus is Lord! and I believe Bob saw that clearly and wanted to write and sing about it, in his own mysterious way.
It's Jesus who traded his innocence for scorn. the hilltop village is golgatha, the physical hill where Jesus was scorned and injected (rejected).
bob dylan himself has said that his words are for your own interpretation, so this is one person take on it but to call it an absolute would be a betrayal to his words
This is just my interpretation. I'm not saying it is the only interpretation.
“She” is God. Shelter from the storm is the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Church is referred to as She, the body of Christ
The Baptist announcedvthe Kingdom of Heaven on Earth -: it was the Body of Jesus it is now the Earthly body of the Risen Christ -: the ECCLESIA in the scripture
The song is about Mary Magdalene.
No no no no its not
I think it’s being over analyzed… it’s poetry… with Dylan using references both understood and not… understood… lines that are separate and not necessarily connected…
“ Blood On The Tracks “… collectively was written around Dylan’s marriage coming apart… and divorce… there’s entirely too many things… left to speculation… about what Bob or his wife Sarah… were going through.
Personally… I think of this period of Dylan’s career… as a very productive time with three of my favorite studio albums in a row… “ Planet Waves “… “ Blood On The Tracks “… and “ Desire “ … quite a remarkable period… with each album played over and over… by me… I enjoy them each in their own right. … Once again…
Thanks… Bob… for all the music 🎶
🌜🌞🌛
Dylan is endlessly profound.
I offered up my Innocence...and got repair with scorn....
Thanks Mom
I don't look for a deep, mysterious meaning. The movie in my head is being weary and tired from life and a feminine, kind and caring woman offers "shelter from the storm".
I don’t care what it’s exactly about unless Bob Dylan wants to explain it. I love this song no matter what you say. You’re acting like Indiana Jones and you are ridiculous😂
Lol
It's a song about heroin addiction. Bob was describing his.
in jungian terms he is referring to the eternal feminine, the anima, she who redeems the brutality of the unconscious masculine .
If Bob wanted to say this was Jesus inviting him in he would have used the masculine. No reason not too. He's talking about Sara here.
Lol. Crack the meaning of a song and the world is just not ready to accept it.
Not surprising to me. I can't light no more of you're darkness...
He was heavily influenced by the Bible, even from the beginning. He would even convert to Christianity in the late 70s, but you dont have to belong to a religion to read and be inspired by their scripture.
Dude! I knew the bible verses! I was hoping for a bit of insight!
To know Bible verses is not to understand the Bible.I don't know many people that know bible verses but don't know what that means ash jesus he'll tell you
Sometimes song writers don’t know why they right; it’s divine intervention.
I think you have to identify who "she" is.
It’s just a great song and your like raiders of the lost ark 😂each to there own I love Dylan playing it live
❤
he said it was about his wife
Jesus was scorned by the Nazarenes
She is .Mary Magdalene.
Go ahead search the Scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life and they are they that testify of me....
And the angel told Joseph that he was to take Mary as his wife and unto them the Messiah would be born. Joseph said get out of here that's not what w e believe it's not even close. And the Angel said it's not what you've been taught. I'm telling you straight up that is how it's going to be. So Joseph took Mary as his wife and unto them the child was born. Joseph was a just man and Mary a virgin, the handmaid of our Creator, God's wisdom the feminine principle of the Elohim. The only part of God's mind we can know. She is the teacher.
My love she speaks in silence without ideals or violence doesn't have to say she's faithful but she's true like ice or fire...
We're living in a world where people expect everything to be handed to them. What's the meaning of your songs they all wanted to know. I don't know what you're talking about go ask somebody else. By the time the 80's rolled around Bob's singing reached a point you could barely make out what he was singing about. What does it matter they don't understand what I'm saying anyway?
I'm at the end of the video now and there's a picture of Jesus on the wall, white Jesus. Imagine how that would make you feel if you were black. Jesus is white, Santa is white, Uncle Sam is white. I know how I would feel. No matter what I ever did or could say I could never be part of that world. Now imagine if you walked into a Church and on the wall it had a picture of Jesus and he was black. Big afro, full lips and flared nostrils. Would you still go to Church and call yourself a Christian? Be honest with yourself what I think about you doesn't matter. If I say Jesus died for my sins isn't that saying I killed Jesus? Should I be rewarded for believing that? Jesus didn't come to save anybody he came to show us how to overcome the death that came in the beginning. Nobody in this world told you that you are already dead they told you that after you die is when you either go to Heaven or Hell. God is the God of the living not the dead...
"She" is Wisdom. Wisdom in the Bible is referred to in the feminine "she, her, lady" and Wisdom from God gives "shelter" to those who know it. Shelter from the corruption and deception and misery of the world. Wisdom (She) applies to each verse in the music that it is used here. Wisdom was "born" from the beginning... PROVERBS 8:22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. PROVERBS 8:34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.
Lol...Dylan uses biblical imagery...he's sooo well read. But l hear none of this silly stuff...l hear the song as Dylan's answer to "Diamonds n Rust".
Bob Dylan blood on the tracks alternate takes
she was probably a harlot who took him in , when he was at his weakest & what seemed to be shelter, later turned out to be an error Beware of blasphemy , not saying this is a song of one but as you know they do exist ...You sound like you're trying to make something good out of something worldly to me ..I can take the lyrics of the song Sheep from PF, believe it or not & make it something you wouldn't expect, when it sounds like anti scripture . What we want isn't always what we need & the imagination can be deceitful in deed Who is the author of confusion bro?
This is about the eternal feminine. It’s not about Jesus. All the male characters-including the storyteller are harsh or lost. He is given nurturing and respite by a woman. Why can’t there be a woman with silver bracelets and flowers in her hair?
She the Church>>
No doubt the song is clothered in Western mysticism,. However, with a little closer looking, a lot of Easterism mysterism can also be discerned, typical of Dylan
What did Jesus Warn us most about . False teacher. The Good news of the Kingdom is beautiful and forever . This lady offers temporary peace. This song is about the false Christianity. It steel the crown she overs Doom to scare you. She took clothes ect.
this proves the resurrection....lol sorry!
Robert Zimmerman is Jewish. No Gospel. Old Testament only.
Sure he is Jewish, but he constantly refers to Jesus of Nazareth in his work from his very first album to Rough and Rowdy ways 2020. He's a literate man, like the Jewish philosopher Maimonides 1138-1204 he diolnges with various religious positions. Whether Bob is Messianic or some other type of Jew, I think his work has brought great richness to the world of the Torah and prophets and to the Christian world view too. In his recent 2022 interview for The Wall Street Journal he said " I'm a religious person. I read the Scriptures a lot, meditate and pray, light candles in church. I believe in damnation and salvation, as well as predestination. The Five Books of Moses, Pauline Epistles, Invocation of the Saints, all of it."
@@alisonbeek7766 The Jews I knew did not believe in after life. They had incredible mocking swear variations for Jesus. Dylan seemed to be the most well-read of the rockers, Bowie used tons of religious references, The Stones too. Religious imagery is pretty rich for mining as a writer of any sort.
The first verse tells you all you need to know about the songs intent . It says
It was in another lifetime full of toil and blood
blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud ,
I came in from the wilderness
A creature devoid of form
Come in she said I'll give ye shelter from the storm .
That creature was Christ before his baptism.
very cool .....Dylan is a master poet but also seemingly very conflicted between his Christianity and his secular leanings ......in an infamous interview with the late Ed Bradly he alludes to going to the crossroads and making and upholding his end of a "bargin with the supreme master and commander of the thing you see in this world and all the other things you cant see" to get where he is IE; fame and fortune ...an obvious reference to robert johnson's deal with the devil for fame and fortune. it seems to me that he may wish to escape his Faustian bargin by embraging Christianity ... but his often seemingly morose personna reveals that he knows the futility of that due to his iron clad contract with the devil he signed many decades ago .....