Floater (Too Much to Ask) Lyrics
I find the 'second cousin' line very funny, and yet disturbing at the same time...
yes. I think the whole concept of this album is very relaxed. Having a good time playin' and writin in a non-conceptual way. This song, as many others, are a lot of funny lines or thoughts put together without a particular order or correspondance of any kind.
Yeah, I have no idea what this song is about, if anything. But it's one of my favorite Dylan songs of all time. It has a sense of timelessness, it could have been written in the 1930's.
Yes the song sketches a relaxed scenery and is very nice to listen to. No problem in sight - except in the title ("Floater") and in the last two lines:
"Sometimes somebody wants you to give something up And tears or not, it's too much to ask"
Nobody loves to have an easy life questioned by any wish or need.
Similarly:
- "People don't live or die, people just float" (Man in the Long Black Coat, Oh Mercy Album)
- "I step outside back to the busy street, but nobody's going anywhere" (Highlands, Time out of Mind Album)
When I first the album the work ducktrapper jumped out. Like he chose it because he hadn't heard it in a song before and just wanted to take ownership of the word.
..but no..the answer to the question why duck trapper? is..why not?