dylan uses some cool things in these lyrics, the words bye and bye (or by and by) really have a double meaning and either one fits. I also like how dylan uses the literal meaning of being on time as sitting on a watch. When he says walking on briars he most likely means he has fallen upon hard times and it is hard to continue on. During the part of the song where he says he is rolling slow.... he is ina state of denial about his love and when he is goign to where the wild roses grow he probily means he is returning to being single which is a more wild state. In the end of these lyrics i think that he burns or simply murders his old lover so she cant love anyone else which makes the last line really ironic. This is a neat song anf is sertinly open for otehr interpretations.
dylan uses some cool things in these lyrics, the words bye and bye (or by and by) really have a double meaning and either one fits. I also like how dylan uses the literal meaning of being on time as sitting on a watch. When he says walking on briars he most likely means he has fallen upon hard times and it is hard to continue on. During the part of the song where he says he is rolling slow.... he is ina state of denial about his love and when he is goign to where the wild roses grow he probily means he is returning to being single which is a more wild state. In the end of these lyrics i think that he burns or simply murders his old lover so she cant love anyone else which makes the last line really ironic. This is a neat song anf is sertinly open for otehr interpretations.