![]() ![]() What would you call the lyrics of “Subterranean Homesick Blues” by Bob Dylan if it isn’t chaos? And very tongue-in-cheek chaos. And then some other times, they are just words. Sometimes, they do not attempt to tell a story or convey an emotion. They are weighed down with abstracts, use far too many adjectives, and are often deliberately confusing with subject changes. Do we use the same methods for interpreting songs as we do for poetry? Do we judge the lyrics in music by the same rules as we do poetry? If so, then lyrics are bad poetry. ![]() We sense chaos if we leave things undefined. It is a human condition that we try to understand things and put them into little boxes. There is an arrogance about people who say they know when they don’t. You can read the words, but you can’t fully interpret song lyrics because maybe you haven’t been to the same place. How then can someone else interpret it? Quite simply, you can’t, especially when observation is essential in the mix. Unless that is, you can place them in context. Therefore, an interpretation is not completely possible with some songs. Songs and lyrics are written in a certain time and place. ![]() It ended up not being about either scenario, but he left it, as it was for a laugh. He said it started as one thing and changed to another. I read recently where the composer said he didn’t know what his song was about, and he wrote it. Using Lyrical Interpretation to Discover the Meaning of a Song – Final Thoughts. ![]()
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