da Seeing Things - 2008

Esiste una poesia con lo stesso nome di Stephen Crane che probabilmente è servita di ispirazione per il titolo. Quella di Dylan è una lettera di un soldato ai suoi cari.

(1996)

Parole e musica di Jakob Dylan
dall'album Bringing Down the Horse.


La morte delle idee, di Signora Libertà e del sogno americano

"I tend to write with a lot of metaphors and images, so people take them literally. The song's meaning is all in the first verse. It's about the death of ideas. The first verse says, 'The death of the long broken arm of human law.' At times, it seems like there should be a code among human beings that is about respect and appreciation. I wasn't feeling like there was much support outside the group putting together the record. In the chorus, it says, 'C'mon try a little.' I didn't need everything to get through, I could still get through - meaning 'one headlight."

(Jakob Dylan)

Forse la canzone più famosa dei Wallflowers, una band americana capitanata da uno con un cognome ingombrante. Jakob Dylan è il figlio di quel signore dai mille volti, recentemente... (continua)

(2012)
Album: "Glad All Over"
Lyrics: Jakob Dylan
Music: The Wallflowers (Jakob Dylan, Greg Richling, Rami Jafee, Stuart Mathis, Jack Irons)

"Constellation Blues" touches on global conflict, with its dead soldiers "bankrupt and buried by war that is carried out by messengers now," as Dylan puts it in the lyrics of the song. As the father of four, it's his biggest concern, he said.
"That's the first fear that anybody has who has children, that there's going to be a war anywhere close to them, and that their children may be asked to be involved -- especially in a war that they don't agree with," he said. "A lot of songs I write have images of that. That's just because it's eternal and war is inevitable. It's a strong place to draw the images you need to write lyrics."

Montreal Gazette

(Jakob Dylan)

Album: Rebel, Sweetheart (2005)

Album: "Seeing Things" (2008)