Hmmm..is Dylan prophetic with this song?

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the song is "License to Kill" from Bob Dylan's '83 album, Infidels. [snip] "Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth He can do with it as he please And if things don't change soon, he will

Oh, man has invented his doom First step was touching the moon" [wasn't the moon race the real development of computers? wait, there's more...]

"Now there's a woman on my block Sitting there in a cold chill" [how many people will be likewise at the date turn?]

"She say who gonna take away his license to kill"

"May be noisemaker, spirit maker Heartbreaker, backbreaker Leave no stone unturned" [look at the polarity...two groups busy..one on merriment (party favors and booze), the other on some somber work (preps?)

You've got the gist. If you have the album, why not give it a listen. Do I think Bob had Y2K in mind back in '83? Course not. But I do believe in a Supreme Being who can infiltrate our mind with an idea or message beyond ourselves.

-- Cowboy (gene@autry.not), October 26, 1999

Answers

Yes, indeed, you're gonna haf'ta seeeerrve somebody...

-- Delerious (delerious@inthewindycity.com), October 26, 1999.

Somethin's happening here, There's a man with some rice over there, Telling me, I gotta beware,

Saying

Stop children what's that sound, everybody look the grid's shutting down. Hmmmmn.

What a day for the heat, Thousands of people in the street, Screaming, we need something to eat,

Why can't you help us when were really in need...

-- doomer (song@sing.song), October 26, 1999.


"You don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows..." Robert Zimmerman

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), October 26, 1999.

Ding Dong the bug is dead Wicked bug, the bug is dead Ding Dong the Y2K is dead, Hi ho, the merry oh, sing it high, sing it low, Ding dong the Y2K is dead...

No more of stashing beans, stacking spam and storing things, ding dong the Y2K is dead, and so we tell you,

Stop all your foolish preps Whip out your cards, get back in debt, the doomers were wrong, don't get upset, Cause Y2K is dead...

-- polly (lyric@verse.now), October 26, 1999.


When I wake up to the sound of gunfire, Charlie Tuna comes to me, Speaking words of wisdom... Let it be...

And in my hour of darkness, there is still a light that shines on me, Shine on till tomorrow, Coleman propane, free standing...

Let it be, let it be, let it be, oh let it be, got my own provisions, but out of T.P. EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

-- doomer (paperback@writer.not), October 26, 1999.



Oh give us a mill Or a chainsaw from Stihl Throw in two hundred pint jars from Ball A bushel of wheat Would be quite a nice treat And some Gamma seals, O2 and all

Home, home in the burbs Our bunker for post Y2k And may we not lack For a fine Generac On our TEOTWAWKI holiday!

Home, home in the burbs We'd sure like a pump and a well. May our goose soon saute In a solar array While a Baygen still brings us Art Bell.

-- Fiver2000 (Fiver2000@yahoo.com), October 26, 1999.


"It's a hard, it's a hard hard rain's gonna fall on you."

-- Ace (Ace@nospam.com), October 26, 1999.

in e minor:

damn you masters of code you that build the Big Iron you that made the screen stall you that jam up the wires

you that thought that the date was a two digit year you've made us a future with nothing but fear...

-- coprolith (coprolith@rocketship.com), October 26, 1999.


Take this badge right off of me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark to dark to see
and...


-- I feel like I'm (knockin@heavens.door), October 26, 1999.

"La la lala la la, la lala la la" -- Smurfette

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), October 26, 1999.


So near, and yet so far.

Y'all missed it.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), October 27, 1999.


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