"Dylan was 'being stoned' by audiences around the world for moving to Rock from Folk," wrote Muir, who also suggested the seemingly nonsensical verses of "Rainy Day Women" can be heard as allusions to social and political conflicts in the United States. He suggested that the title "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" refers to chapter 27, verse 15 (in the King James Bible): "A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike."ĭylan critic Andrew Muir suggested that the sense of paranoia suggested by the recurring phrase "they'll stone you" is a reference to the hostile reaction of Dylan's audience to his new sound. Heylin further suggested that the song's title is a Biblical reference, taken from the Book of Proverbs, "which contains a huge number of edicts for which one could genuinely get stoned".
Given its Old Testament connotations, Heylin argued that the Salvation Army band backing becomes more appropriate. You can look through history and find that people have taken offence to people who come out with a different viewpoint on things." "Dylan was 'being stoned' by audiences around the world for moving to Rock from Folk," wrote Muir, who also suggested the seemingly nonsensical verses of "Rainy Dayĭylan responded to the controversy by announcing, during his May 27, 1966, performance at the Royal Albert Hall, London, "I never have and never will write a drug song." According to Dylan critic Clinton Heylin, Dylan was determined to use a "fairly lame pun"-the idea of being physically stoned for committing a sin, as opposed to being stoned on "powerful medicine"-to avoid being banned on the radio. some people they just take offence to that.
No one helped Bobby-they shut doors in his face, but no one helped him.” She watched his progress from afar-“and then, when he was ready for Carnegie Hall, he called us.” "'Everybody must get stoned' is like when you go against the tide.you might in different times find yourself in an unfortunate situation and so to do what you believe in sometimes. “There were lots of times when he was ready to come back to Minnesota,” Beatty recalls. His mother was alternately angry and admiring. But at ten he started playing the guitar and soon Bob Dylan-he renamed himself for Dylan Thomas-was carrying his guitar from college campus to college campus, where he found both an audience and a reason to avoid going to high school. He had been a quiet, introspective boy Beatty says she expected him to become an English teacher. Life got interesting when Bobby reached adolescence. (I'm aware that most of Dylan's songs shouldn't be explained because their goal is not to make sense but to creat art, but I feel like this one isn't made as a huge nonsense, particularly because of the seriousness of the title) The title goes in this sense too: the "woman" is the drug you take when your days are grey and sad (rainy days) and that you can't stand the authority outside trying to "stone" you all the time.
There're obviously two different ways of understanding this song and both of them complement each other: you can see this song as a way of saying "you can have a good time by getting high anytime and forget your everyday problems" but also as a way of saying "We having drugs because "they" (the police, the society ect) literally "stone" us with their violence and their intolerance: they're always there trying to destroy us, but it's ok because, us, young people, are together and forgetting our troubles due to this society with drugs." Just playing with the world "stoned" and its different meanings.
I love the idea of using the word "stoned" with its two meanings.
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