What does "tangled up in blue" mean/refer to?

Answer 1

You're talking about the Bob Dylan song?

It's on one of his most bitter albums - 'Blood On The Tracks', which he wrote as his marriage was failing. He once described it as a song that took him 'ten years to live and two years to write.'

Look at the full lyrics:

http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tangled.html

And you'll find a song that's partly autobiographical (how he met his wife), but largely fictional. It's a fairly depressing story, and 'tangled up in blue' just has the meaning of 'unable to escape from the blues' - blues the depressed feeling, not blues the music!

Find out more here:

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=623

Answer 2

Tangled Up In Blue Meaning

Answer 3

Tangled Up In Blue Lyrics

Answer 4

Was it on Seniors that you had this unfortunate experience? If so why was he on here? What did you tangle about? Was it the sad subject you mention here? I would imagine he means 'get mixed up' with but why was he so upset? People are strange and you sound such a lovely caring person. Let's all ban him from here. I've just had a similar experience posted a question about sense of humour and said I enjoyed coming on here to read the funny things people say. I got an abusive comment about being bird brained and then had my question removed. I honestly wonder if some of these people understand the English language.

Answer 5

It's from an old Dylan song. Not all of Bob Dylan's lyric's can be taken on a literal level, but it could refer to being "blue" or depressed as someone suggested. I think it was from Blood on the Tracks.

Answer 6

That whole song is about a woman he (or someone he knew) loved... and lost, and found, and lost again... and about how you just have to 'keep on keeping on' regardless of how you feel or what happens to you. He's 'tangled up in blue' over it- maybe a more poetic version of 'tangled up in blues'

Answer 7

Bob Dylan used to give interviews to prominent music journalists who kept asking him what his music meant. He would act as if they had just asked him how much his liver weighs. He told a Time Magazine correspondent to come to the show, listen. watch. He could talk about what it meant to him (the reporter), but he wasn't going to put that on Bob Dylan. It means what it means to you. If there is anything in your life and your experience that resonates, the THAT'S what it means.
Have YOU wondered if somebody from your life has changed at all? If HER hair is still red? Can you imagine her working in a topless club and how you'd feel if she got down on her knees and tied your shoes? Is she coming on to you? Does she want to rekindle the relationship? Does she want to exploit your longing?
Would your conflicted emotions be described as "tangled up in blue?"
It is not a linear retelling, fictionally or autobiographically of anything. It's a bunch of images from his recollections of bitter and sweet moments from . . . from his lovelife? from his imagination? from his observations of others?
What difference does it make? That's what he was telling the reporters. He was saying that he doesn't make speeches, or write books, or analyze poetry. He writes and performs songs. He was really really successful at writing and performing songs. He could put things in songs that ripped feelings of your old relationships and put them right up in your face. But they were your memories and your feelings. Not his. If it doesn't find anything in your Pensive, then it probably won't mean anything at all to you.
But if it does touch an emotion you feel now or once felt, then you'll never get that song out of your head. And maybe when Bob Dylan gives words and music to your feelings, maybe it will inspire you to think about them and do something about them.
But don't try to put that on Bob. He won't like it.

Answer 8

"Tangled up in blue" is a Bob Dylan song; referring to a series of situations that lead him to a state where, "the only thing he knew how to do was to keep on keeping on."

Answer 9

"Tangled up in blue"means that you're caught in the Country/Blues Music,sad,or depressed.

Answer 10

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