Everything is broken.

[G_j]

Broken lines, broken strings,
Broken threads, broken springs,
Broken idols, broken heads,
People sleeping in broken beds.
Ain't no use jiving
Ain't no use joking
Everything is broken.

Broken bottles, broken plates,
Broken switches, broken gates,
Broken dishes, broken parts,
Streets are filled with broken hearts.
Broken words never meant to be spoken,
Everything is broken.

Seem like every time you stop and turn around
Something else just hit the ground

Broken cutters, broken saws,
Broken buckles, broken laws,
Broken bodies, broken bones,
Broken voices on broken phones.
Take a deep breath, feel like you're chokin',
Everything is broken.

Every time you leave and go off someplace
Things fall to pieces in my face

Broken hands on broken ploughs,
Broken treaties, broken vows,
Broken pipes, broken tools,
People bending broken rules.
Hound dog howling, bull frog croaking,
Everything is broken.


B. Dylan

[LiberalLoner]

1. Yup. n/t

[deutsey]

2. We live in a political world

where peace is not welcome at all.
It's turned away from the door
to wander some more,
or put up against the wall.

[G_j]

4. I was also thinking of that one

:thumbsup:

[virgogal]

3. Spirit's not broken. Poor Dylan,a a glass half empty kind of guy.

[blindpig]

5. So throw it away

tear it down

build something new.

[starroute]

6. Tikkun Olam

Dylan is somebody who always knows more than he says.

http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/TikkunOlam.htm

Isaac Luria, the renowned sixteenth century Kabbalist, used the phrase “tikkun olam,” usually translated as repairing the world, to encapsulate the true role of humanity in the ongoing evolution and spiritualization of the cosmos. Luria taught that God created the world by forming vessels of light to hold the Divine Light. But as God poured the Light into the vessels, they catastrophically shattered, tumbling down toward the realm of matter. Thus, our world consists of countless shards of the original vessels entrapping sparks of the Divine Light. Humanity’s great task involves helping God by freeing and reuniting the scattered Light, raising the sparks back to Divinity and restoring the broken world. . . .

The basic principle of Kabbalah is that the seeker pursues spiritual practice to transform his or her being and rise through the levels of worlds, to bring his or her own will back to the Divine will, while opening a way for the higher energies to flow down to this world, and thereby advancing the great process of tikkun olam. For millennia Kabbalists have sought to serve this process, for example by meditating on and opening to the higher energy, the Divine Light, the Light of the Shechina above their head. They allow the Light to spread through them as if sitting in its midst and draw the Light down for the Earth, for life, for their own soul. The possibility of opening to the Divine Light stands within reach of us all, if we are prepared to do the necessary inner work.

[G_j]

7. fascinating

yea, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a layer of intention there. I also like the verse with:

broken treaties, broken vows...
(then,)
..broken pipes
(which I always picture as a broken sacred pipe of the Lakota indians.)
Sometimes these things are subconscious, or unintended with Bob, but never the less, connect to a myriad of images and meanings.

[bobbolink]

10. Network of Spiritual Progressives

http://www.tikkun.org/

[bobbolink]

8. We poor and homeless people knew all of this a long time ago.

Welcome to reality.

[G_j]

9. hear, hear!

:hi:

[bobbolink]

12. Yeah, but we will still be ignored when the rest of you catch up to our poverty.

I knew that, and it's happening.

The current Salvation Army ad that is running, pits "them" against "us" in a very obvious and cruel way.

"THEY" are the newly poor, and have done nothing "wrong".

As one DUer pointed out in her researchh on the history of US poverty, it has always been the story of the "worthy and unworthy poor".

So, you will get to be the worthy poor.

Don't you feel better now?

You see, you will already have someone to look down on.

ME.

Beat ya there!

[BeHereNow]

11. Do I know you?

I used to date Captain Beefheart's guitar player.
You remind me of him more every day.
BHN
On edit: recommended.