Bye and Bye Lyrics
I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time
I'm singin' love's praises with sugar-coated rhyme
Bye and bye, on you I'm casting my eye
I know who I can depend on, I know who to trust
I'm watchin' the roads, I'm studying the dust
I'm paintin' the town, making my last go-round
I'm not even acquainted with my own desires
I'm tellin' myself I found true happiness
That I've still got a dream that hasn't been repossessed
I'm rollin' slow, goin' where the wild roses grow
You were my first love and you will be my last
I'm gonna baptize you in fire so you can sin no more
I'm gonna establish my rule through civil war
Gonna make you see just how loyal and true a man can be
dylan uses some cool things in these lyrics, the words bye and bye (or by and by) really have a double meaning and either one fits. I also like how dylan uses the literal meaning of being on time as sitting on a watch. When he says walking on briars he most likely means he has fallen upon hard times and it is hard to continue on. During the part of the song where he says he is rolling slow.... he is ina state of denial about his love and when he is goign to where the wild roses grow he probily means he is returning to being single which is a more wild state. In the end of these lyrics i think that he burns or simply murders his old lover so she cant love anyone else which makes the last line really ironic. This is a neat song anf is sertinly open for otehr interpretations.
The future for me is a thing of the past Only Bob Dylan can say that. Such an authority on that issue.