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Newport Version

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While listening to the recording I own of the Newport version, I found that Peter Yarrow's announcement, usually coming directly after "Like A Rolling Stone", had been placed at the end of "Phantom Engineer". I know that Yarrow spoke after Dylan walked off, right after "Like A Rolling Stone" (this was his last song), but so many articles list "Phantom Engineer" as the last song. I no longer know what to think about this situation.BootleggerWill (talk) 04:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Different Take

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I have to disagree with the interpretation about it being about someone who is sexually frustrated.

If anything, love between the man & woman underpins the song.

The frustration is not sexual.

I think he is talking to two people, the woman & the listener{s}.

The frustration with the woman is more about the relationship, than purely sexual.

But, really, he is talking to the audience in regards to how to live life.

People look at relationships & life in regards to money, work, purchasing, rather than, more so, one to one.

We are missing out on enjoying life, because we are busy working.

The relationship allegory is that people are working for a future that is disappearing like so much tracks, when right outside their window, the Sun is setting, the Moon is rising. Our wife or husband is right there at our window, yet we never look up from the desk, from the controls of the train.

The song is about missing out on life & relationships.


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