‘Bent out of shape from society’s pliers cares not to come up any higher but rather get you down in the hole that he’s in’

Accidentally hearing to Bob Dylan’s ‘It’s alright mama, I’m only bleeding‘, from 59 years ago, an image of James Cook (above) of BBC Scotland popped unpleasantly into my mind:

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he’s in

Is there anything more boring than old gits quoting Bob Dylan to younger folk when some current controversy pops his words into his mind?

Do I care?

Does Bob have some words for how little I should care?

Readers?

4 thoughts on “‘Bent out of shape from society’s pliers cares not to come up any higher but rather get you down in the hole that he’s in’

  1. Im gonna change my way of thinking make my self a different set of rules im gonnaput my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools

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  2. I watched him deliberately wind up the very peaceful and good humoured crowd at the event pictured here in Perth and then read him whining the next day about how BBC folk found it hard to go out on broadcasts because of the abuse they faced. Some little guy had very quietly called him scum as he argued with a woman in the crowd. absolute manipulation.

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  3. Is there anything even more boring than old gits quoting The Clash?  

    “ All over people changing their votes
    Along with their overcoats
    If Adolf Hitler flew in today
    They’d send a limousine anyway”

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  4. Nothing wrong with boring old gits, get used to it youngsters there’s loads of us old gits;

    I can’t help about the shape I’m in
    I can’t sing, I ain’t pretty and my legs are thin

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