We love Emma Jane’s blog, and one of her posts from May is the next selection in our annual round-up. In it, she related the lyrics of a Dylan song, line by line, to her kink, starting with the opening line: – “She takes just like a woman”:
I am a woman, a grown-up, an adult. I have a career and responsibilities. I may fantasise about regressing to a school girl or a small child or a young teen but that’s not how I want to live my life. In a scene that I chose to partake in I love to be dominated, controlled and disciplined, but not in my real life.
I am an equal partner in life and you have to earn my trust and loyalty. I will take from friendships and relationships just like any woman would. I will give in return. I am not a dependent being.
She continues her dissection of the lyrics through the end of the chorus:
“But she breaks just like a little girl”
And sometimes you will break me. I will cry in your arms and let everything around me disappear. You will have brought me to that place that I crave so badly. I will break just like a little girl but will emerge again, just like a woman…
Powerful, intense, evocative: everything a great blog entry should be.
I’m slow on the uptake here, but I just wanted to say that this has been one of my favorite songs for many many years and I frequently use “She makes love just like a woman … but she breaks just like a little girl.” as a signature line in email, forum postings and the like.
I am also a rabid Dylan fan.
Anyway, thanks for pointing me to this post.