I had wondered for years. I mean, catchy but bothersome. What the fuck was Bob talking about? He’s dead. I can’t ask him. I’ll never know. But, fuck, somewhere, someone must know what the fuck he’s talking about. All codes are cracked. Enigma. Algebra. This one too.
Finally, I saw a movie. Two guys wondered the same thing. I knew I wasn’t alone. This question had plagued man (probably not woman) since Bob first wrote it and THEY had an answer. Each one a different one. One of them was good. That’s it! From the grave, Bob was speaking to me! Suddenly, it was clear! I finally got it!
Two days later I visited the chiropractor’s office and excitedly shared with Rion my new discovery. “Since the first time I heard the song ‘No Woman, No Cry’ I wondered what the fuck it meant. I’ve always wanted to know what Bob Marley was talking about and I finally got it! The other day I was watching a movie and two of the characters were discussing the same exact thing, the song ‘No Woman, No Cry’ and the meaning of it. One of them had his idea, from outta left field but the other, the other guy got it.”
“Very simple,” he said, “It means: No woman, I won’t cry for you. Bob’s telling her he isn’t go to cry for her. No woman’s worth that.”
“You’d think after living this long I could have figured it out,” I continued. “I thought I was going to my grave without knowing.”
“That’s interesting,” Rion said. “I never thought much about it.”
“What do mean? Didn’t you wonder what the fuck it meant?” I asked.
“No. I figured it meant just what the song said: No woman, No cry. If there’s no woman in your life, there’s no crying in your life.”
…
“Fuck!”
It took thirty five years (this was last year), wandering the wilderness, reading blogs, having an epiphany watching a movie and finally visiting the doctor’s office only to be corrected to make the discovery it means just what it says it means “No Woman, No Cry.”
And ain’t it the truth?
*Epilogue* Alix was kind enough to quote the original lyrics: "No, woman, no cry." Disregard the blog entirely. Commas make a world of difference. The meaning should be obvious. More fuck!!!