repluso, Dylan became famous for writing "protest" songs. He soon moved beyond that phase of his career but people kept demanding that he write more of them. Dylan called them his "finger pointing songs" and said that he just wrote them because that’s what people were buying at the time. He understood that aiming his hand in a soldier's stance, to paraphrase "My Back Pages" wouldn’t end war or injustice but made him part of the problem of divisions between people.
His protest songs are great songs but the way to change things is to do something positive yourself, not accuse others of being the problem.
His protest songs are great songs but the way to change things is to do something positive yourself, not accuse others of being the problem.
