That's a passage from The Gospel According to His Bobness - investorshub.com
Evocative words in many songs of his, non-specific, apply to everybody's situation du jour, you can get anything you want at bobdylan's restaurant ... that particular song is called My Back Pages, and is likely [he never says] about his reflections back on a period he spent with Joan Baez in the civil rights movement in the early sixties ... he is often speaking of change, having gone through many, without really changing at the core, imho ... from that same song here's a bit that runs through my head when i catch myself preaching -
in a soldier's stance i aimed my hand
at the mongrel dogs who teach
fearing not that i'd become my enemy
in the instant that i preach
my pathway led by confusion boats
mutiny from stern to bow.
ah, but i was so much older then,
i'm younger than that now.
yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
too noble to neglect
deceived me into thinking
i had something to protect
good and bad, i defined these terms
quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
ah, but i was so much older then,
i'm younger than that now. |
