Blowin in the Wind....lyrics we should all look at

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.



This song was written by the great lyricist Bob Dylan in 1963. I find it very ironic that a song that was written over 40 years agon mirrors so much of what is going on today. This is one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs because I feel it raises questions of morality. Bob Dylan is telling us everything our society ignores, and the reprocussions of it. What I like about this song and the way Dyan writes it is that he never tells us the answers the questions but at the same time he does...they are blowing in the wind. The answers are all around us but because we all know that they are around us we all just assume that someone else will take the initiative to stand up to the injustices created by our society and what really happens is that all of this assuming it will be taken care of nothing actually gets done. The answers are all around us, we just need to look at our lives, look at our society, look at the poor education systems, the violence, the corruption, the globalization, the environmental issues, the greed, the unequal distribution of wealth and we need to learn to fight for those who cannot fight, and to live for all those who lived before us. I find it sad that a song relating to the problems of the 60's can be so realated to our society now, it should not be this way, we should be past all this already we should have moved foward as a society, not be at a standstill. We need to stop ignoring and start doing, like the song says "How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesnt see?"