-”You must leave now” (It’s All Over Now Baby Blue)
What Weberman thinks Dylan means: “Fidel Castro and Soviet communism must leave Cuba now.”
Thanks for clearing up these ambiguous meanings, A.J.!
Weberman’s own beliefs are one of the most intriguing things about the book. Though he is determined to convince us that Bob Dylan was ideologically on the far Right, he seems to be a leftist with regards to social programs and drug legalization. However, he doesn’t mind filling his translations with racist tirades or adding tidbits like “Dylan was having sexual relations with more sexual partners than a Muslim would have if he reached heaven.” Weberman comes off an awful lot like the Dylan he criticizes. Despite all the hate, he claims that he and Dylan were friends and that “the Dylan-Weberman...relationship is the legend that poems are made of,” even noting that in a phone conversation “Dylan said he was going to write a poem about me entitled ‘Pig.’ That may not seem like the most positive title, but you just don’t understand the beauty of a friendship based around digging in someone’s trash.