“
Meanwhile, far away in another part of town,
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin’ around.
Number one contender for the middleweight crown,
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down.
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road,
Just like the time before and the time before that.
In Paterson that’s just the way things go:
If you’re black you might as well not show up on the street
’Less you wanna draw the heat.
— Bob Dylan
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Meanwhile, far away in another part of town,
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin’ around.
Number one contender for the middleweight crown,
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down.
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road,
Just like the time before and the time before that.
In Paterson that’s just the way things go:
If you’re black you might as well not show up on the street
’Less you wanna draw the heat." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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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".
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".
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