Odds and Ends Lyrics
Just for the record, the first line sounds to me like "I stand in awe and I shake my face," but having checked around a good bit, these are the lyrics that come up on nearly every other site.
I know, why does it say "I plan it all and I take my place" everywhere?! It's obviously "I stand in awe and I shake my face" as you say.
I know, why does it say "I plan it all and I take my place" everywhere?! It's obviously "I stand in awe and I shake my face" as you say.
Now, as for the meaning: it's obviously about a rushed businesswoman who's trying to get to work early to impress the boss, and she making some kind of breakfast for her out-of-work slacker husband, but he doesn't want the juice his wife keeps offering, he wants her. Obviously.
Now, as for the meaning: it's obviously about a rushed businesswoman who's trying to get to work early to impress the boss, and she making some kind of breakfast for her out-of-work slacker husband, but he doesn't want the juice his wife keeps offering, he wants her. Obviously.
Sounds like that to me too!
The lyrics are DEFO wrong...there's no way that Dylan says 'plan it all' - I think you're right, BraveSirRobin
I'm not too sure what Dylan's talking about here but I interpret it as coming from a guy after being dumped by a woman because she's after marriage, kids etc. and the guy isn't like that at all - although she's tried to change him ("you take your file and you bend my head", "keep that juice to yourself"). The 'lost time' that is 'not found again' could be on both their parts
From wikipedia:
The chorus of the opening song–"Odds and ends, odds and ends/Lost time is not found again"–functions as "a kind of editorial comment on the entire Basement Tapes", writes Andy Gill, emphasizing the songs' "fragmentary form and fleeting pleasures".[3] Heylin suggests that this was one of the final basement songs to be recorded, and that here Dylan acknowledges that "when it came to spouting catchphrase choruses while espousing mock profundities in the verses, the process had just about run its course. Dylan admits as much by singing, 'I've had enough, my box is clean/You know what I'm saying and you know what I mean'."[4]
It's about someone, perhaps, who has forgotten that she's not his...by his choice. Interesting song.
Live you life and leave me alone. I began using this site long before I realized you had any connection to it. Don't flatter yourself why I am here.
Live you life and leave me alone. I began using this site long before I realized you had any connection to it. Don't flatter yourself why I am here.
To me this is the track that best shows the Blonde on Blonde era Dylan was still inside Bob.
Actually, I dunno why I said 'guy' and 'woman' - they could be anyone! It's just because Dylan's singing it, but yeah, could be any gender obviously
Actually, I dunno why I said 'guy' and 'woman' - they could be anyone! It's just because Dylan's singing it, but yeah, could be any gender obviously