Découvrez les paroles de la chanson « Mr. Tambourine Man » de Bob Dylan, accompagnées des explications de leur signification, d’anecdotes et de contexte.
Paroles de la chanson
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand,
Vanished from my hand,
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship,
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip,
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin'.
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way,
I promise to go under it.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
Though you might hear laughin', spinnin', swingin' madly across the sun,
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facin'.
And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind,
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
Seein' that he's chasing.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
Explication des paroles de Mr. Tambourine Man de Bob Dylan
« Mr. Tambourine Man » est une chanson emblématique de Bob Dylan, sortie en 1965. Le thème principal de la chanson est l’évasion de la réalité à travers la musique et l’imagination. Le narrateur implore le mystérieux « Mr. Tambourine Man » de l’emmener dans un voyage onirique, loin des soucis et des tourments de la vie quotidienne.
La chanson a été écrite à une époque où Dylan était en pleine transition artistique, passant du folk traditionnel à des sonorités plus rock. Une anecdote intéressante est que la chanson a été initialement écrite lors d’une tournée en Grèce, où Dylan s’est inspiré du lever du soleil sur l’île de Mykonos.
En conclusion, « Mr. Tambourine Man » est une invitation à s’évader de la réalité et à trouver du réconfort dans la musique et l’imagination, ce qui en fait une chanson intemporelle et universelle.