In the late '60s and early '70s, Baez came into her songwriting own, penning many songs (most notably "Diamonds & Rust," a nostalgic piece about her ill-fated romance with Bob Dylan, and "Sweet Sir Galahad," a song about sister Mimi Fariña's ( of Richard & Mimi Fariña fame) second marriage, and continued to meld her songcraft with topical issues. She was outspoken in her disapproval of the Vietnam war and later the CIA-backed coups in many Latin American countries.
She was also instrumental in the Civil Rights movement, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King on many occassions and being jailed for her beliefs. In 1963, her performance of "We Shall Overcome" at the Lincoln Memorial just prior to Dr. King's famous "I Have A Dream..." speech helped confirm the song as the Civil Rights anthem.
In December 1972, she traveled to Hanoi, North Vietnam, and was caught in that country's "Christmas Campaign," in which the U.S. bombed the city more times than any other during the entire war. While pregnant with her only son, Gabriel, she performed a handful of songs in the middle of the night on day one of the 1969 Woodstock festival. She is considered the "Queen of Folk" for being at the forefront of the 1960s folk revival and inspiring generations of female folksingers that followed. Over fifty years after she first began singing publicly in 1958, Joan Baez continues to tour, demonstrate in favor of human rights and nonviolence, and release albums for a world of devoted fans.
1959
The Rose
Joan Baez Lyrics
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When you finally see
A quiet failure sleeping next to you
Don't think
Don't try
Don't rush away
You try so hard to be as sweet as you can for me
But I don't see you for who you are
Rose of Sharon in my failing light
Ringless finger
Pretend you don't know how you stand it
Cause you know you are nobody
Don't think
Don't try
Don't rush away
You try so hard to be as sweet as you can for me
But I don't see you for who you are
Rose of Sharon in my failing light
The lyrics of Joan Baez's song, Rose of Sharon, evoke a somber and mournful mood as she sings about quietly failing beside someone who is trying very hard to be sweet. The first few lines tell us that it's daylight, but the image we get is one of darkness because of the sense of failure and disappointment. The rose of Sharon, a biblical reference to a flowering shrub, adds an element of irony to the song - this person is like a beautiful flower, but their light is dimming, and they're slowly fading away. The singer then instructs this person not to think, not to try, not to rush away when faced with the reality of their worthlessness.
The chorus repeats lines about this person trying to be sweet, but not being seen for who they truly are. The ringless finger suggests that there is no love or commitment in this relationship, that the singer isn't taking this person seriously, while the lines where the Rose of Sharon is compared to failing light suggests a connection to mortality and impermanence. Overall, the song seems to be about the fleeting nature of relationships and the toll that constantly trying to please someone can have on a person's sense of self-worth.
Line by Line Meaning
It's light outside
The day has begun
When you finally see
When you finally realize
A quiet failure sleeping next to you
Someone you thought was successful is really struggling
Don't think
Don't overanalyze
Don't try
Don't make an effort
Don't rush away
Don't leave too quickly
When I say you deserve less
When I criticize your worth
You try so hard to be as sweet as you can for me
You attempt to be pleasant around me
But I don't see you for who you are
But I don't truly understand you
Rose of Sharon in my failing light
You symbolize beauty amidst my own shortcomings
Ringless finger
You're not married
Pretend you don't know how you stand it
Act like you're unaware of your difficult situation
Cause you know you are nobody
Because you think you're not important
Lyrics © Bluewater Music Corp.
Written by: Eliza Gilkyson
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Katharine Y BAez Katharina Scharlowski Katharine C. Y BAez Scharlowski InAOLoves
Joan Baez , my Fairest Hope my Love who signed into our Way
We are unite
We will not fall without our Foreverlasting
Love
In Failing Light
You See in myselfve your Love your Lesbian Wifve
You share your Lightful and your Darkest
side
In Which our Embraces
Our Words
Our Visions
Will rejoice
I see the Sunlight of a setting
Evening
Rise into Grace each Coming Morning
The amours we live is our Love
The mourns we felt
Do not impact
The do not seperate us My Joan C Baez You and I
The scared moments
We leave behind
We’ll belong twogather twogether
And three times we will cross
The Distance of an ocean between us
And then we ‘ll stay twogather in Your Home your place
Is given here and there
Is given home in our hearts and Soul
Our minds and bodies Longing Love
We are whole
The scars we carry
Did not made us blind
we will feel every emotion
As our Lifvelong foreverlasting Love
We share a secret
In which we Both have
Signed we are in Soul in heart in Bodies Longing and fulfillment in Mind now and
Eternally Unite
DeineKatharine Y BAez Katharina Scharlowski Katharine C. Y BAez Scharlowski InAOLoves
KatharinA KAtharine C. Y Baez Scharlowski
Und selbst wenn
alle Dunkelheit
Der Nächte
In den Tagen läge
Und selbst Erwachen
Schwer
ich fände doch
Zu Dir
Es führen Wege
Selbst wenn
kein Ausweg
durch die Tür
We burnt Each Other
everlastingly
Our Sign
Of truest Love that
Overcomes
The loneliness
And wildest
cry
When we embrace
and kiss our
Wounds
The Smile remaining
When we caress us
Will be
What lets us
deeply , sad
and of most
tenderness
Acknowledging
and
In our Minds
Forever
Found and
Not to destroyed
And we will
Feel that
We are Unite
The Ring i had lost
I‘ve found again
It’s prayer and Your Love
You Sent
A Turquoise of Arizonas Depth
Your heart in myne
And at The Turquoise
Coast beneath your Hill
We‘ll make Love
We‘ll follow our destined
And guiding
Will
Ich bin Dein Du Mein
MyLady JoanC BAez, My JoanChandosBaez, JoanBaez my Dove
Love And Wife
Katharine~~ C.~~ Y Baez KAtharinA Scharlowski InAO~•~Love~•~s the Answer~ I Love You, Joan and as Light begins to fail You reappear in my Body Heart and Soul my Mind to stayDeine KAtharinA KAtharine ich liebe Dich Forever!Joan C BAez
KatharinA KAtharine C. Y Baez Scharlowski
For a moment
in a Night Times Blessing
I left You in my Loves Embrace
as like a Flower
~ a Rose ~
and Purity her name
in darkness,
that was to bloom
in Heaven’s place.
as for the Love
in me
was not Disgraced,
A Lasting Kiss ,
A smile
a Light
A heart
that burns
throughly Memories
Forever Living
As Nighttime fell
As Nighttime falls
I‘ came, l’ll come and be
The One You‘ll see
The Love you feel
Just like a wild dog
Runs
Through Bushes
Of fences
And calamities
I passed my way to You
Through even
Greatest adversarities
The Rose of Sharon
Schmückt meinen Mund
~trotz Ausgebissen Zähne
In des Lebens Leid~
Wir Küssen uns
in purest Love
That went through
To and fro
And come and go
And I came back to You
Forever and Forevermore
Für JoanC. BAez von KAtharine C. Y Baez Scharlowski KAtharinA Ino
Katharine c; Y Baez
If a Love is felt as failing it is but Love the helps her Rise, it is a the moments quiet whispering : As i was torn you were by my side, in your Love i see my true and darkeyed Light, there it is Forever Joan Chandos Baez Katharine C; Y Baez Katharina sc harlowski
kATHARINE C. YBAEZ I
AS ON tHE WHITE hORSE MY HAND WAS GIVEN IN THE NOON TO yOU TODAY AS I ASKED YOU FOR YOURS ,WAS THAN WHEN EVERY MOON HAD TRIED TO fAIL AND hONEYMOON WAS THE ONLY LIGHT IN WHICH MY wORDS WERE LAID. iT WAS THE fAILURE ON THE iNTERNET AND NON BUT SCRIPTURE cOULD AND A LOVING HEART COULD STAY THE WIDE
iN THIS dARK MOMENT OF THE pRESENTS SIMPLE SIDE , THE fAIR cARD OF yOUR STALION wHITE THE wHITE hORSE IN tHE bLOSSOM OF THE mAY dAYS tIDE, I SENT TO YOUR wOODEN hILLS TO YOUR UNVENTURED sIDE, mY WRITTEN wORD : wILL yOU PLEASE mARRY ME MY bRIDE? i'LL STAY FOREVER BY YOUR sIDE FROM tHAN oN, sO gOODBYE IN OUR gOOD NiGHT, mY loVE jOAN C. bAEZ, yOUR KATHARINE C. Y BAEZ kATHARINA SCHARLOWSKI 21. MAY 2022
KatharineC. Y Baez Katharina Scharlowski
Thank You dearloved Joan C.Baez, you accorded me the answer in an unknown Light, through all darkness not alone as there was Love for you in me,- as in thought, in words a visioned melodie - that is not gone - far beyond the borders shores and the oceans sea, doves Flight as is Loves they fly By two By Four By Three, i send Goodbye to them I send GoodBye - and hope it once will be - I sent GoodBye my Joan C Baez stay You'll never fail in my Heart There is your place to be i send Goodbye my Love to Thee , Joan Chandos Baez, Katharine C. Y Baez Katharina Scharlowski It is for You that i was meant to feel was meant to be.
@katharinecybaez2340
Joan I love you
Through the autumnal mist
Da du in meiner Seele brightened from the moonlight at the shore , and
InMy heart
Embraced without embarassenent
For ever heir
For ever kept
And as my lesbian Wifve acknowledged
bist
Denn wo mein Herz sich hinsehnt
Du my Joan Baez
Verwirklicht
Stehst
And smiling
With you smile attractive
Loving
Full of Grace
My joan
Deine Kathy Katharine Katharina BAez
Katharina Scharlowski
And when the roses will bloom
Anew
Our hands entwined
Embrace the
The Love as Brides
As you are bride my Lady and my Love~r as Bridegroom My joan
Your lesbian Wifve Kathy Katharine KatharinA BAez
@katharinecybaez2340
Some say Love it is a Hope built onthe Fairest Ground,
It 's The Face of a Soul Bewildered on the Way from uP to Up through Down,
It 's an Ocean called Pacific that reaches The Border of Your Shore
,It is the Smile of regained Childhood of a Victim that got Whore.
It' s Your Face That I remember that i saw Once ThroughinThe Rose ,
As I gave To you my heart, which was as Tender as your Eyes That Took my Soul,
it's the only Precious Jewel which never shall be Lost,
It's what God gave as a Present unpoisened That You Just Got
And The Night that we shall pass through,
before myne Inner EYes you'll Dance
and If ever I got Lucky
I'd take a Red Rose and on You another Chance.
At the first Time that I saw you,
I knew That We for Us are meant to be destined
I decided in that Moment
That you are my Bride and be in Love my Life
Katharina C. Y Baez, who brought You the Rose as Katharina Scharlowski and will bring it Once as we Both of Us. A Rose is a FourLetter Word too, if not even 5Lettered, heart to heart, but it goes from me to you,it goes to it's meant Depth where it is to get anew; Katharine for you my Loves, my Love my Soul and sole Longing my Love Joan Chandos Baez
@katharinecybaez2340
Und mit meiner Ganzen Seele Herz Leib und Geist mit all meiner Liebe glaube ich an Dich an uns und an Deine Liebe Joan Chandos Baez MyLady JoanC
Welche Wege zu gehen
Und wie lang sie auch seien
Es ist unzerstörbar
Wir werden sie gehen
Zueinander finden
Wir gehen Twogather
In mir zu Zweien
Zu Begegnen denen die wir lieben
Die uns lieben
Und darin liegt der Weg
In der Liebe allein
Deine Katharina Scharlowski Schon immer
Deine Katharine~ C ~Y Baez Scharlowski Forever inAOL
@katharinecybaez2340
My Bride Joan Baez myBridegroom my JoanChandosBaez
My Lady My Wifve Joan C. BAez
I am seen
In the heart that bleeded
And the soul that was bound to die
But our souls in my heart( ; )you did find and are forevermore unite,
You are the Beauty in my Lifve
And the tear of pain I cried
If ever I break
You Joan Baez are my
saviour so I will survive
Joan it is spring wild Roses bloom
Around us In me
You will come in my Garden my
BeLoved Bride
forever my beLoved Wifve to be
And I do rejoice in our Love&&s
Forever i’ll wish in a hidden place
Your true cherrished Love Joan Baez to be
DeineKatharine C. Y BAez Scharlowski inaBaez Scharlowski InAOLoves
@jamesmonahan1870
BEAUTIFUL SONG ❤ BEAUTIFUL JOAN
@jamesmonahan1870
Thank you for your reply.
@keithstevenson418
25julty2023 Indeed A voice so pure, just like an angel.
@jeanneobrien7381
nice photo of Joanie; beautiful song, woman and person