Bob Dylan

[Helen Thomas]

A song by Bob Dylan has the words

"She's an artist, she's okay/alright"

or something to that effect.

Anyone know the song/album and what the words mean in the context he meant.

[Gregg Bolinger]

She Belongs to Me maybe? He was probably singing about Mary-Jane.

[Helen Thomas]

Thanks Greg. That's the one. Was Mary Jane his muse i.e did he sing a lot about her ?

[Gregg Bolinger]

Originally posted by Helen Thomas:
Thanks Greg. That's the one. Was Mary Jane his muse i.e did he sing a lot about her ?

Mary-Jane == marijuana.

Marijuana has been referred to as a woman a lot of times in numerous songs. Another song that comes to mind is Last Dance With Mary Jane by Tom Petty.

[Helen Thomas]

She's an artist, she don't look back.
She's got everything she needs

These words were used to describe the late Susan Sontag. I suppose the person who used these words didn't know what they were really about. Unless there's a connection I'm missing.
[ January 13, 2005: Message edited by: Helen Thomas ]

[Peter Rooke]

Dylan; Song Meanings

Did Dylan write lyrics about drugs? Maybe we are chasing shadows:
�And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind,
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
Seein' that he's chasing.� [Mr. Tambourine Man, Bob Dylan]

---------------------------------------
No language, just sound, that's all we need know, to synchronise
love to the beat of the show - And we could dance.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio. [Transmission, Joy Division]
[ January 13, 2005: Message edited by: Peter Rooke ]