Widely heard as his farewell to protest songwriting, it was later a hit cover for The Byrds.
The words
The singer looks back on his own preachy certainties and finds that shedding them has renewed him.
The singer looks back on a time when he was sure of everything, preaching about right and wrong and seeing the world in black and white. Verse by verse he admits how proud, rigid and self-righteous he had been, and how those certainties shut him in. The refrain makes the turn: he felt old and stiff back then and feels younger now that he has let them go. It is a reflective, self-mocking song for solo guitar and voice.
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The words
The singer looks back on his own preachy certainties and finds that shedding them has renewed him.
The singer looks back on a time when he was sure of everything, preaching about right and wrong and seeing the world in black and white. Verse by verse he admits how proud, rigid and self-righteous he had been, and how those certainties shut him in. The refrain makes the turn: he felt old and stiff back then and feels younger now that he has let them go. It is a reflective, self-mocking song for solo guitar and voice.
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