Nowadays the lyrics are given as:
»There's a Man up on a cross and He's been crucified«
I (mis)heard:
»There's a man on the cross and he'll be crucified for you«
Interpretation:
»I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the
least of these brothers of mine, you did for me« - By this,
I can do something for Jesus right now (by doing something
for the least of his brothers), which means by the
structure of causality that he is part of my future.
I might even be able to save him, but I fail to do so.
By using the future tense »he'll be crucified«, the
misheard Dylan wants to bring this to my attention.
The crucification is part of the past and part of
the future, because it actually exists beyond the time line.
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The lyrics are given as:
»No time to prepare for the victim that's there«
I (mis)heard:
»No time to prepare for the big time that's there«
Comment:
»prepare for the big time« has 21 hits on Google,
so it seems to make some sense, too.


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