It was all the way back in 1964 that Bob Dylan released his seminal track, It Ain't Me Babe. The song begins with the lines, "Go away from my window/ Leave at your own chosen speed/ I'm not the one you want, babe/ I'm not the one you need," before it segues into a chorus where Dylan sings, "It ain't me, babe/ No, no, no, it ain't me, babe/ It ain't me you're looking for".

Now, people thought at first that this is a song where a man is telling a clingy partner that things aren't going to work out. He's telling her to buzz off, they thought. But it soon became increasingly clear that Dylan might have ascribed a different meaning to the words. You see, till that point, the hippie generation that the singer had been catering to had put him on a pedestal where they felt that he would tirelessly champion their pacifist ideals. Dylan, though, admittedly grew fed up of this pressure. And some thus feel that this track was his way of telling his demanding fans, "Give me a break. It's you I'm asking to buzz off. It ain't me, babe. I'm not the political hero you're looking for."