I saw the song as been about wait for this..... Bob Dylan, the Bob dylan persona that Bob was composing at that time, my view was reinforced by Cate Blanchett playing a female Dylan in I'm Not There. His Dylan alter ego is quite feminin. Especially the lines "she's the hypnotist collector you are the walking antique". At that time dylan's art was full of very hypnotic references and abstract stream of conciousness lyrics, and him seeing the folk singer as old and outdated and antique.
I saw the song as been about wait for this..... Bob Dylan, the Bob dylan persona that Bob was composing at that time, my view was reinforced by Cate Blanchett playing a female Dylan in I'm Not There. His Dylan alter ego is quite feminin. Especially the lines "she's the hypnotist collector you are the walking antique". At that time dylan's art was full of very hypnotic references and abstract stream of conciousness lyrics, and him seeing the folk singer as old and outdated and antique.