NP nor Pandemic. We can all talk about this new song and why Bob released it now?

[Mark Kohut]

Here is my admittedly fanlike hearing of the patsy line....

Since THE Patsy is a person worth being like, the first patsy is
an up usage of it, so to spin.

I read it with some resonances, one being one of her most famous song is
Nelson's
"Crazy' so the narrator is a patsy for love---or America, JFK, the soul of
America.

And, since I also like TRP, some of his song lyrics get bashed......

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 5:31 AM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> I am not saying you're wrong, just that the first thing one notes surely
> is that Bob Dylan is a conspiracy theorist.
>
> As for the archetypes... The song comes across as an elegy for a country
> or world gone wrong because of the most foul murder of the "king". If
> this is true, the ailing Fisher King of Arthurian legend does not work
> as a frame of reference, and neither does Frazer's sacrifice of a dying
> king for the good of the kingdom. Yes, the assassination is depicted as
> a "human sacrifice", a ritual slaughter performed on "the altar of the
> rising sun", but the killing of the king does not lead to the
> restoration of a barren wasteland but to strife and civil unrest.  The
> allusions to Shakespeare therefore seem more apt, even though I wonder
> why, besides "Hamlet", "The Merchant of Venice" and Lady Macbeth are
> singled out for reference.
>
> Apart from the references to the murder itself, the most peculiar aspect
> of the lyrics is the interlocking of motifs from assassination lore and
> from popular culture. Is this just free-wheelin' association, or is
> there more to it?
>
> Also, I find some of the lyrics awful. The clumsy opening or "I'm just a
> patsy like Patsy Cline" -- this is not very good, is it?
>
> Related listening:
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> https://www.themetimeradio.com/
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