Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying" - Meaning and context.">

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon

Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying

— Bob Dylan

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon

Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying" in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Bob Dylan

About Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016 Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".