I'll shortly comment. I love this song partly because is one example of the dialectic between the previous Dylans album Time out of mind and the one from wich this song is taken, a dialectic which is set in terms of basic feelings and attitude. If TOOM, expecially in songs like Not Dark Yet and Highlands, was the record of an old man, approaching to death, and the basic feeling is quiet desperation, this instead is the song of a man who feel that in the end, life is really worthwile. That he expresses with wonderful words such as:
Well my ship's been split to splinters and it's sinking fast
I'm drownin' in the poison, got no future, got no past
But my heart is not weary, it's light and it's free
I've got nothin' but affection for all those who've sailed with me
and above all
Stick with me baby, stick with me anyhow
Things should start to get interesting right about now
That, said from a 60 years old man, is deeply moving. He still had to pass through a great amount of sufference and humiliation (i love this: "Walking through the leaves, falling from the trees/Feeling like a stranger nobody sees"), and this is showed by the consistent use of apocalyptic imagery, (that is almost a Dylan trademark), even if with a humorous falvour i think . But the prevailing emotion is love of life. It makes me cry
Yes, I like it for the same reasons. However, I think that people often over identify the Dylan narrator character in his songs with Dylan the man himself. I love the downbeat, black humour in lines like that couplet "Stick with me baby...." The first time I heard it I laughed out loud. Perhaps one of the reasons that we always assume that Bob Dylan is singing about himself is the fact that his characters stand up so well.
Yes, I like it for the same reasons. However, I think that people often over identify the Dylan narrator character in his songs with Dylan the man himself. I love the downbeat, black humour in lines like that couplet "Stick with me baby...." The first time I heard it I laughed out loud. Perhaps one of the reasons that we always assume that Bob Dylan is singing about himself is the fact that his characters stand up so well.
I'll shortly comment. I love this song partly because is one example of the dialectic between the previous Dylans album Time out of mind and the one from wich this song is taken, a dialectic which is set in terms of basic feelings and attitude. If TOOM, expecially in songs like Not Dark Yet and Highlands, was the record of an old man, approaching to death, and the basic feeling is quiet desperation, this instead is the song of a man who feel that in the end, life is really worthwile. That he expresses with wonderful words such as:
Well my ship's been split to splinters and it's sinking fast I'm drownin' in the poison, got no future, got no past But my heart is not weary, it's light and it's free I've got nothin' but affection for all those who've sailed with me
and above all
Stick with me baby, stick with me anyhow Things should start to get interesting right about now
That, said from a 60 years old man, is deeply moving. He still had to pass through a great amount of sufference and humiliation (i love this: "Walking through the leaves, falling from the trees/Feeling like a stranger nobody sees"), and this is showed by the consistent use of apocalyptic imagery, (that is almost a Dylan trademark), even if with a humorous falvour i think . But the prevailing emotion is love of life. It makes me cry
Yes, I like it for the same reasons. However, I think that people often over identify the Dylan narrator character in his songs with Dylan the man himself. I love the downbeat, black humour in lines like that couplet "Stick with me baby...." The first time I heard it I laughed out loud. Perhaps one of the reasons that we always assume that Bob Dylan is singing about himself is the fact that his characters stand up so well.
Yes, I like it for the same reasons. However, I think that people often over identify the Dylan narrator character in his songs with Dylan the man himself. I love the downbeat, black humour in lines like that couplet "Stick with me baby...." The first time I heard it I laughed out loud. Perhaps one of the reasons that we always assume that Bob Dylan is singing about himself is the fact that his characters stand up so well.