"let me die in my foot steps, before I go down under the ground"-- Bob Dylan
(full song lyrics)
Dylan was talking about all the fear that was going on in the early 60s, particularily the fear of bombs; they would do all of the bomb drills where they would go into underground shelters. Dylan's philosphy was he'd rather go about his everyday life normally rather than live in constant fear of bombs and going into the shelter every time there was a bomb scare. of course we are going to have some fear though but we can't let it ruin our lives. "All men die, few men truly live" - braveheart (kinda taken out of context)