Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan is about a lady who was once a wealthy upper class citizen with the luxuries of being in a position of riches but is now nothing more then a homeless person. This song is about how life can change so suddenly and how taking and becoming addicted to drugs can destroy your life completely. The girl in this song was given the best of the best opportunities to make it easier to succeed, money dresses etc. but this lack of restraint on money led to her being able to spend it on drugs. Now she has had to pawn all her old luxuries to maintain her lifestyle. Like A Rolling Stone has four verses and a chorus repeated after each verse.
The title "Like a Rolling Stone" is used because it explains the fact that once you continue on a downhill slope it gets harder and harder to stop making the decisions which are cascading downwards like a rolling stone. …
