Dylan and Strauss-Kahn

His Bobness has a song for every mood - sorrow (You're a Big girl Now), vengeance (Positively 4th Street), injustice (The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll), love (Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands), departure (Mississippi), bliss (The Man in Me), the zeitgeist of the 60ies (the whole Blonde on Blonde album), the feeling of existential absursdity (Desolation Row), fear (A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall), you name it.

He also has a songs, or some immortal lines, for every occasion. Of the many pictures that were published of monsieur Strauss-Kahn, there was one that struck me immediately and that linked me to a Dylan song.

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?

Yes, monsieur Straus-Kahn, you were bound to fall. This was so clear in this one picture, seeing the soles of his shoes (no diamonds there), of a man who was a sharp dresser. Yes, he's only guilty when proven so, and that is not yet the case.

But in the meantime he may remember another Dylan phrase:

Like the lion tears the flesh off of a man
So can a woman who passes herself off as a male
They sang "Danny Boy" at his funeral and the Lord's Prayer
The preacher talked 'bout Christ betrayed
It's like the earth just opened and swallowed him up
He reached too high, was thrown back to the ground
You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up
Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down

(Foot of Pride)

BTW - Happy birthday Bob!