On Tuesday, Dec 25th, I called the Radio 8 Ball again with the house full of family: Grampa Dave, Grama Julie, Oma Barbara, Bibi Betsy, Uncle Nick, Trish, Orion, and Jusby. I asked for a song that would have some significance for everyone in the house.

I Wanna Be Your Lover

Lyrics by Bob Dylan

Performed by Yo La Tengo

on the Soundtrack of "I'm Not There: suppositions on a film concerning Dylan"

Well, the rainman comes with his magic wand
And the judge says, "Mona can't have no bond."
And the walls collide, Mona cries,
And the rainman leaves in the wolfman's disguise.

I wanna be your lover, baby, I wanna be your man.
I wanna be your lover, baby,
I don't wanna be hers, I wanna be yours.

Well, the undertaker in his midnight suit
Says to the masked man, "Ain't you cute!"
Well, the mask man he gets up on the shelf
And he says, "You ain't so bad yourself."

I wanna be your lover, baby, I wanna be your man.
I wanna be your lover, baby,
I don't wanna be hers, I wanna be yours.

Well, jumpin' Judy can't go no higher.
She had bullets in her eyes, and they fire.
Rasputin he's so dignified,
He touched the back of her head an' he died.

I wanna be your lover, baby, I wanna be your man.
I wanna be your lover, baby,
I don't wanna be hers, I wanna be yours.

Well, Phaedra with her looking glass,
Stretchin' out upon the grass.
She gets all messed up and she faints

That's 'cause she's so obvious and you ain't.

I wanna be your lover, baby, I wanna be your man.
I wanna be your lover, baby,
I don't wanna be hers, I wanna be yours.

Divination then ~

Me: Both Mom and Dad guessed it was Dylan but not Dylan. Orion is totally into being the center of attention.

Andras: he's cribbing from the Beatles song that the Stones did. Dylan's doing his riff on it. The Beatles probably got it from some folk record.

Divination now ~

Orion loves magic wands. His little friend, Gavin Rain, is sometimes known as Rainman and visited on New Year's Eve/Day. Jusby wants to be Trish's lover. More as it develops.