tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post3816187199852630749..comments2024-03-27T22:25:44.006-05:00Comments on Ennyman's Territory: Shooting Star: Bookend on Dylan's Monumental Oh MercyEd Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-78683434809531776452017-12-31T18:06:16.554-06:002017-12-31T18:06:16.554-06:00For some reason I always thought Shooting Star was...For some reason I always thought Shooting Star was about Dylan's father (Abe?) after his death. Lines like "Guess it’s too late to say the things to you<br />That you needed to hear me say" strike me as the sort of thing you might reflect upon as the years go by. Same applies to "If I ever became what you wanted me to be". I think from memory Abe died long before, but I know I still reflect on such things even forty years later.<br />Beautiful song, regardless.<br />Garryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08251904514457016579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-18972210122895723712017-01-23T08:26:14.325-06:002017-01-23T08:26:14.325-06:00Finally! I've been telling my wife this for ye...Finally! I've been telling my wife this for years. Dylan has written many end-of-era songs, "Restless Farewell," "Like a Rolling Stone," "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." "Shooting Star" is a farewell to his Christian era, at the end of what I see is his last Christian album. Just as "Blood On The Tracks" was a fully grown up and very adult perspective on intimate relationships--not the push pull excitement and discouragement with lovers in the early '60s music of a man in his early '20s--so the "Oh, Mercy" album was his mature commentary on his Christian era and a religious view of the world in general. Good and evil, faith and doubt, hope and disappointment are the themes overviewed and summarized. Personal, soulful and instructive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com