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icono11 year, 8 months ago

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Great take on an interesting Dylan song. Again, loved how the art worked with the song to underline the nature of the message being presented.
I believe this song was done during Dylan's religious period which really sorta shocked some of my friends but to me he was ahead of the curve on exploiting a growing grass roots Christian movement amongst the young hippies of the day. Yet Dylan was and still is good at profiting off of the socially and politically obvious.
The message is simple and to the point; no matter how great or insignificant you are in the eye's of society everyone will have to spiritually serve somebody. In this case either the Devil or the Lord. Yet through an extended metaphor, good or evil. (...'precious my precious.' Sweet!)
To me the point of the song is in 'you will do one 'or' the other not one 'and' the other'.
You can't have it both ways; you can only have it one way; 'It could be the Devil or it could be the Lord; but you Gotta Serve Somebody.'
True.

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