One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) Lyrics
Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.
Your back is straight, your hair is smooth
On the pillow where you lie.
But I don't sense affection
No gratitude or love
Your loyalty is not to me
But to the stars above.
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below.
And a wanderer by trade
He'll teach you how to pick and choose
And how to throw the blade.
He oversees his kingdom
So no stranger does intrude
His voice it trembles as he calls out
For another plate of food.
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below.
Like your mama and yourself.
You've never learned to read or write
There's no books upon your shelf.
And your pleasure knows no limits
Your voice is like a meadowlark
But your heart is like an ocean
Mysterious and dark.
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below.
Amazing song! The Arabic influence is incredible, and pull's it off extremely well - I certainly can't sing like this and if I try to sing along it sounds like dreadful wailing (and I'm not a terrible singer, in general!)
This song is about a guy who falls in love with an uneducated, beautiful, mysterious, travelling gypsy who he is love with, but her commitment is to nature and her family and he knows he cannot hold onto her.
@rebbit can you plz show me the Arabic influence that you are talking about?
@rebbit can you plz show me the Arabic influence that you are talking about?
and yea great understanding I feel the same about the song too. about a guy.....
and yea great understanding I feel the same about the song too. about a guy.....
I think this song is about unrequitted love
I always thought it was Bob commenting about a wild girl who he wants for a relationship...but being wild, she'll never settle down.
This is a haunting song. Always been one of my favorite, late at night, alone with a beer song.
his vocals are amazing, spine tingling song.
I absolutley adore this song.I can't believe there isn't more comment on this.It was the very first Dylan song I'd ever listened.And now I'm a huge Dylan fan and I know all of his songs by heart.
Anyway I think this song tells the story of a rambler who falls in love with a gypsy girl who is wild and hard to tame.So he doesn't have any chose but rambling on.
I think he sings it after they made love for the last time,
Your breath is sweet Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky. Your back is straight, your hair is smooth On the pillow where you lie.
He knows he's got to go.Because she won't be his to have.He still loves her.Although he doesn't sense any love from her.Or affection or gratitude to make him stay.
Note:Sorry for my english if I made any mistake.
@ecekam : I think you got it right. They are definately laying in the same bed in the beginning. Thats a great start to understand the mood in the rest of teh song.
@ecekam : I think you got it right. They are definately laying in the same bed in the beginning. Thats a great start to understand the mood in the rest of teh song.
Much later in the song I & I he sings: “Beens son long since a strange woman slept in my bed, look how sweet she sleeps, how free must be her dreams”
Much later in the song I & I he sings: “Beens son long since a strange woman slept in my bed, look how sweet she sleeps, how free must be her dreams”
The song is arabic/spanish/greek... as it's arranged in phrygian mode.
As far as meaning, it's classic Dylan, interpreting the existance (and relationship) between Man and Woman. I wouldn't read too specific into it. It must be understood from (what is likely) his point of view.. intense love. The man's ability to love a woman, to desire her, solely, irrelevant of status, means, wealth.. simply her sexiness. The sexiness, of course, has a price.. her mind is 10 milleniums behind his; she is a simpleton, oblivious to his complexeities. Yet, her simplicities are a dagger. He knows this.. takes want he can from her, as she is already (still) under the spell of other men. Disgusted with his desires, drags his own dagger across her upon exit... Metaphorically.
@res07njc : Very interesting. COuld also be that she is superior in her “simplicity”. Although subject to her fathers dominance, she is closer to the real world/nature than he is in his “complexity” as you write it. Her “pleasure knoes no limits” she’s close to true nature, and her loyalty is “to the stars above”:
@res07njc : Very interesting. COuld also be that she is superior in her “simplicity”. Although subject to her fathers dominance, she is closer to the real world/nature than he is in his “complexity” as you write it. Her “pleasure knoes no limits” she’s close to true nature, and her loyalty is “to the stars above”:
And your pleasure knows no limits Your voice is like a meadowlark But your heart is like an ocean Mysterious and dark
And your pleasure knows no limits Your voice is like a meadowlark But your heart is like an ocean Mysterious and dark
She is probably more ture to life than most of us.
She is probably more ture to life than most of us.
Just a thought of course :-)
Just a thought of course :-)
how has no one commented on this song its amazing
who is the woman he sings this song with?
Emmylou Harris
Such an amazing song, and his vocals are wicked.