{"id":1133,"date":"2011-05-03T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2011-06-24T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:30:58","slug":"on-relating-core-to-bob-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/05\/03\/on-relating-core-to-bob-dylan\/","title":{"rendered":"On Relating Core to Bob Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Professor David Roochnick mentioned this morning as part of CC102’s concluding thoughts from the faculty, the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s Chimes of Freedom (here performed by Bruce Springsteen) reflect the themes and ideas covered throughout the first year of core humanities.<\/p>\n

Lyrics:<\/p>\n

Far between sundown’s finish an’ midnight’s broken toll
\nWe ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing
\nAs majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds
\nSeeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing
\nFlashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight
\nFlashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight
\nAn’ for each an’ ev’ry underdog soldier in the night
\nAn’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.<\/p>\n

In the city’s melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched
\nWith faces hidden as the walls were tightening
\nAs the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin’ rain
\nDissolved into the bells of the lightning
\nTolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
\nTolling for the luckless, the abandoned an’ forsaked
\nTolling for the outcast, burnin’ constantly at stake
\nAn’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.<\/p>\n

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
\nThe sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
\nThat the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
\nLeaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
\nStriking for the gentle, striking for the kind
\nStriking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
\nAn’ the poet an the painter far behind his rightful time
\nAn’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.<\/p>\n

In the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
\nFor the disrobed faceless forms of no position
\nTolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
\nAll down in taken-for granted situations
\nTolling for the deaf an’ blind, tolling for the mute
\nFor the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
\nFor the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an’ cheated by pursuit
\nAn’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.<\/p>\n

Even though a clouds’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
\nAn’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
\nElectric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
\nCondemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
\nTolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
\nFor the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
\nAn’ for each unharmfull, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
\nAn’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.<\/p>\n

Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
\nTrapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
\nAs we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
\nSpellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
\nTolling for the aching whose wounds cannot be nursed
\nFor the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
\nAn’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
\nAn’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Professor David Roochnick mentioned this morning as part of CC102’s concluding thoughts from the faculty, the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s Chimes of Freedom (here performed by Bruce Springsteen) reflect the themes and ideas covered throughout the first year of core humanities. Lyrics: Far between sundown’s finish an’ midnight’s broken toll We ducked inside the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[522],"tags":[5892,4572,5890,5891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}