Compare: "I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt/ Well if you can't get along with me, then it's your own fault." Richard Brown, James Alley Blues.
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Well, it's sugar for sugar
And salt for salt
If you go down in the flood
It's gonna be your own fault
— Bob Dylan
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Well, it's sugar for sugar
And salt for salt
If you go down in the flood
It's gonna be your own fault" in the context of "Compare: "I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt/ Well if you can't get along with me, then it's your own fault." Richard Brown, James Alley Blues." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Bob Dylan" (Song lyrics, The Basement Tapes (1975), Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) (recorded 1967))
The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
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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