She Belongs to Me Lyrics
She don't look back.
She's got everything she needs, she's an artist,
She don't look back.
She can take the dark out of the nighttime,
And paint the daytime black.
Proud to steal her anything she sees.
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees.
But you'll wind up peeking through her keyhole
Down upon your knees.
She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child, the Law can't touch her at all.
She wears an Egyptian ring that sparkles before she speaks.
She's a hypnotist collector, you are a walking antique.
Salute her when her birthday comes.
Bow down to her on Sunday,
Salute her when her birthday comes.
For Halloween give her a trumpet,
And for Christmas, buy her a drum.
It doesnt seem like she belongs to him. . .
“Don’t Look Back” was his the title of his Movie and his girlfriend was a Christian around that time, but what I remember most about the song is it didn’t sound like a typical Bob Dylan song, so his influence aside from the lyrics, musically it was very abstract to his style then! He sounds like he’s trying to impress someone beautifully, musically as “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” was beautiful”.
So, basically...
It's an apprecation for a woman who has the ability to make men "worship" her by keeping herself attractive, strong, and elusive instead of becoming overly-available and needy-clingy.
yeah, its kind of the point, he is sort of poking fun at these kind of relationships were the woman is a user, and the dude is her servant because she is so beautiful/perfect or whatever.
I saw the song as been about wait for this..... Bob Dylan, the Bob dylan persona that Bob was composing at that time, my view was reinforced by Cate Blanchett playing a female Dylan in I'm Not There. His Dylan alter ego is quite feminin. Especially the lines "she's the hypnotist collector you are the walking antique". At that time dylan's art was full of very hypnotic references and abstract stream of conciousness lyrics, and him seeing the folk singer as old and outdated and antique.
IMO the song is about the dichotomy of how men view their relationships with women and how they actually turn out.
We start out with the "she belongs to me" mentality but the truth that we end up hypnotized and "collected" is so often true.
Funny how you can hear a song for 30 years and it might mean not much. or different things at different times.
This song recently found its way into my playing rotation, here's my current take, perhaps relevant to some current experinces.
Yup, he idolizes, and that means objectifies the woman, and after a bit this gets a bit tired for everybody, and he's history, the walking antique.
Point to me is, what happens when you put a woman on a pedestal; it does nobody any good. You idealize her and give her superpowers to make you miserable or elated, and nobody should hold that power over you but you.
Close relationships function best when folks want to learn to know each other, not worship each other and depend on them for taking away the dark and bringing the light.
my .02, subject to change , of course YMMV :-))
"you are a walking antique"... i think that might've been the Dylan equivalent of "you're so yesterday"
I have always interpreted the song “She Belongs To Me” by Bob Dylan in this way. The song is about Bob Dylan’s love of America, not the government. He makes references to freedom and liberty and the Statue of Liberty.
@Jamofe Also (She belongs to me) she’s got no place to fall because of the oceans. The Law (Britain) can’t touch her at all. All through the song are references to America, Liberty, Freedom, and the Statue of Liberty.
@Jamofe Also (She belongs to me) she’s got no place to fall because of the oceans. The Law (Britain) can’t touch her at all. All through the song are references to America, Liberty, Freedom, and the Statue of Liberty.
Trish Murphy did an excellent cover of this on her first album.