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From dpj@hubcap.clemson.edu Fri Mar 16 10:47:31 1990
From: dpj@hubcap.clemson.edu (D. Pokrass Jacobs)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
Subject: What's I&I about?
Keywords: dylan, i&i
Date: 14 Mar 90 14:13:35 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
I've been fascinated with the song I&I off the Infidels
album ever since I heard it. I recently
tried to transcribe the words to it, and here's
about the best I was able to do.
Two questions, I'd like to address:
1. Are the words correct (especially the crucial Chorus),
modulo punctuation and formatting?
2. What's this song all about?
My own feeling about the song is that its an attempt to
address some of the paradoxes that might apply to the
dual nature of God (e.g. loving vs. wrathful), thus I and I.
Verse 3 also seems to support something along these lines.
But what do you all think? Any references to articles would also
be appreciated.
I & I (Warning: These verses may contain inaccuracies!)
1. Been so long since a strange woman slept in my bed.
Look how sweet she sleeps.
How free must be her dreams.
In another lifetime she must have owned the world,
or been faithfully wed
To some righteous king who wrote songs beside moonlit streams.
(CHORUS) I and I
In Creation's Way was nature
Neither honors nor forgives
I and I
One said to the other
No man sees my face and lives.
2. Think I'll go out and go for a walk.
Not much happening here, nothing ever does.
Besides if she waked up now
She'll just want to talk
I got nothing to say
Especially about what ever was.
3. Took an untrodden path once
Where the swift don't win the race.
It goes to the worthy who can divide the word of truth.
Took a stranger to teach me
To look into Justice's beautiful face
And to see an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth.
4. Outside are two men on a train platform
Theres nobody in sight
They're waiting for Spring to come,
smoking down the track.
The world could come to an end tonight
But that's all right.
She should still be there sleeping
When I get back.
5. Noon time and I'm still pushing
Myself along the road, the darkest part, into the narrow lanes.
I can't stumble or step foot.
Someone else is speaking with my mouth
But I'm listening only to my heart.
I made shoes for everyone -- even you --
And I still go barefoot.
--
David P. Jacobs
Department of CS, Clemson University, Clemson SC 29634-1906
(803) 656-5872
e-mail: dpj@hubcap.clemson.edu