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Chris does a very deep dive into the amazing symbolic world of VISIONS of JOHANNA, in which we meet The Ghosts of Electricity, Mona Lisa, Madonna and some Jelly Faced Women

Chris examines a number of early Dylan protest songs

Chris looks at Bob Dylan's dark and rumimnative NO TIME TO THINK from 1978's STREET LEGAL

Chris looks at Dylan's mystical I and I from 1983's Infidels

A look at Bob Dylan's extraordinary single release from 1965 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window

Chris examines three sngs from OH MERCY - Most of the Time, What Was it You Wanted and What Good Am I

Analysis of Bob Dylan's Dream

As chaos takes over we return to our friend Leo, who can now make no sense of what is happening in this bizarre, hallucinatory scenario: …Leo turned to Cleo/ “I think I’m going mad”/ But he’d lost his mind already/ Whatever mind he had… We are never told who ‘Cleo’ is. Meanwhile the description of Leo trying to …block the doorway to save all those from harm/ Blood from an open wound pouring down his arm… seems to be a version of the scenes in the movie where Jack performs heroics in order to save some of the passengers. But this is the last we will hear of Leo and we will never find out whether he shares Jack Dawson’s fate. In the next verse we hear that: …Petals fell from the flowers/ ‘Till all of them were gone/ In the long and dreadful hours/ The wizard’s curse played on… The mention of the ‘wizard’s curse’ suggests that this dream-version of the sinking of the ship is indeed a kind of Hollywood movie in which the passengers have been bewitched by an unseen manipulator. Given that the trouble with the ship appears to have been started by a whirlwind, perhaps this ‘remake’ of the famous movie has somehow incorporated elements of The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy and her friends are however, nowhere to be seen.