A small carved wooden pew stands against a blue-gray background, with a slender spent match resting across its top.

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Bob Dylan

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker claims wealth is irrelevant to what truly matters: people fall into two categories, saved or lost. It is a stark spiritual division that sets material riches aside and treats a person's inner standing as the only real measure.

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