Neighborhood bully

Bob Dylan

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Well the neighborhood bully he's just one man His enemies say he's on their land. They got him outnumbered about a million to one He got no place to escape to no place to run. He's the neighborhood bully.                        The neighborhood bully just lives to survive He's criticized and condemned for being alive. He's not supposed to fight back he's supposed to have thick skin He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in. He's the neighborhood bully.                        The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land He's wandered the earth an exiled man. Seen his family scattered his people hounded and torn He's always on trial for just being born. He's the neighborhood bully.                        Well he knocked out a lynch mob he was criticized Old women condemned him said he should apologize. Then he destroyed a bomb factory nobody was glad. The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad. He's the neighborhood bully.                        Well the chances are against it and the odds are slim That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him 'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac. He's the neighborhood bully.                        He got no allies to really speak of. What he gets he must pay for he don't get it out of love. He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side. He's the neighborhood bully.                        Well he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease. Now they wouldn't hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep. They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep. He's the neighborhood bully.                        Every empire that's enslaved him is gone Egypt and Rome even the great Babylon. He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand In bed with nobody under no one's command. He's the neighborhood bully.                        Now his holiest books have been trampled upon No contract he signed was worth what it was written on. He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health. He's the neighborhood bully.                        What's anybody indebted to him for? Nothin' they say. He just likes to cause war. Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed. He's the neighborhood bully.                        What has he done to wear so many scars? Does he change the course of rivers? Does he pollute the moon and stars? Neighborhood bully standing on the hill Running out the clock time standing still Neighborhood bully.                         

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La chanson dépeint l'histoire d'un homme isolé, souvent perçu comme un vilain par ceux qui l'entourent. Il est acculé par une multitude d'ennemis qui contestent son droit d'exister sur une terre qu'il considère comme sienne. Malgré les critiques et l'exil qu'il subit, il se bat pour sa survie et ne plie pas face aux injustices. Le personnage est confronté à une réalité où il est constamment jugé et condamné, cherchant à lutter avec ses moyens contre des forces oppressives qui semblent toujours plus puissantes que lui. Le contexte de cette œuvre met en lumière les thèmes de la résistance et de l'identité, tout en évoquant des échos historiques de peuples persécutés. Elle soulève des questions sur la lutte pour la dignité, la survie dans un monde hostile et la complexité de la perception que l'on a de ses adversaires. On y retrouve une réflexion sur le rapport à la violence, à la souffrance et à la survie dans un environnement qui semble souvent cruel et injuste.