Texas King Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 In your opinion what is this song about? And esp. what is a meaning of this line: I got one foot on the platformThe other foot on the trainI'm goin' back to New OrleansTo wear that ball and chain ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 It's very simple. It's about a man who's become addicted to gambling, just like his father, and the "house of the rising sun," being the gambling house, controls him like a slave. It's just a metaphor. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 It's very simple. It's about a man who's become addicted to gambling, just like his father, and the "house of the rising sun," being the gambling house, controls him like a slave. It's just a metaphor. Some people think it's about a whore house in New Orleans. http://songmeanings....ngs/view/15599/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemiBeers Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 It's very simple. It's about a man who's become addicted to gambling, just like his father, and the "house of the rising sun," being the gambling house, controls him like a slave. It's just a metaphor. Some people think it's about a whore house in New Orleans. http://songmeanings....ngs/view/15599/more specifically....asian whore house...hence the reference of the 'rising sun'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 It's very simple. It's about a man who's become addicted to gambling, just like his father, and the "house of the rising sun," being the gambling house, controls him like a slave. It's just a metaphor. Some people think it's about a whore house in New Orleans. http://songmeanings....ngs/view/15599/ Oh yeah, that's there too. But the metaphor stays the same. Not a difficult song to analyze, certainly not compared to the stuff Dylan was writing at that time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Dad Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Its about whores ok. Sheesh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosher Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 It's very simple. It's about a man who's become addicted to gambling, just like his father, and the "house of the rising sun," being the gambling house, controls him like a slave. It's just a metaphor. Some people think it's about a whore house in New Orleans. http://songmeanings....ngs/view/15599/ Oh yeah, that's there too. But the metaphor stays the same. Not a difficult song to analyze, certainly not compared to the stuff Dylan was writing at that time. It's a reworking of a very old folk song, though, so not contemporary to Dylan's work. It's gone through so many changes that it could be originally about many things- all though in all cases it certainly is about being damned by some form of vice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driventotheedge Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 In case you guys don't know, Dylan did a version but called it House of the Rising Son Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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