This is Robert Zimmerman's first-ever national top-40 hit (out of 1965).
Essentially, this song deals with experiencing a major cultural shock
...not as a result of visiting another country and being thrown for a loop by its strange customs and practices, but, rather, as a result of one finally venturing out on their own in THEIR OWN country, the one they were born and raised in, and discovering all the long omnipresent "trade secrets" and dark underbellies inherent in one's society that no-one's ever bothered to teach them about.
This early song is, par for the course, peppered with the kind of idiomatic metaphors and subliminal insinuations Dylan songs have always beennotorious noted and reputed for.
Essentially, this song deals with experiencing a major cultural shock
...not as a result of visiting another country and being thrown for a loop by its strange customs and practices, but, rather, as a result of one finally venturing out on their own in THEIR OWN country, the one they were born and raised in, and discovering all the long omnipresent "trade secrets" and dark underbellies inherent in one's society that no-one's ever bothered to teach them about.
This early song is, par for the course, peppered with the kind of idiomatic metaphors and subliminal insinuations Dylan songs have always been
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