Ok, some of the songs on this album already conjured memories of the willie nelson album "stardust," but the inclusion of the actual word "stardust" in this song is a dead giveaway. I see this as dylan's acknowledgement of his debt to nelson's album. it's also interesting that stardust is a cover album, while "modern times" is driven by some "covers" (eg. Someday Baby).
Favorite lines:
I'm touched with desire
What don't I do?
Through flame and through fire
I'll build my world around you
Beyond the horizon, at the end of the game
Every step that you take, I'm walking the same
It's dark and it's dreary
I've been pleading in vain
I'm wounded, I'm weary
My repentance is plain
Beyond the horizon o'r the treacherous sea
I still can't believe that you have set aside your love for me
Beyond the horizon, 'neath crimson skies
In the soft light of morning I'll follow you with my eyes
Through countries and kingdoms and temples of stone
Beyond the horizon right down to the bone
Beyond the horizon, the sky is so blue
I've got more than a lifetime to live lovin' you
(Sorry, that's just about the whole song, but I would like to add that "round about midnight" is probably a reference, somehow, to Thelonious Monk's "round midnight." I'd like to think that these two lovers are listening a little Monk.)
Ok, some of the songs on this album already conjured memories of the willie nelson album "stardust," but the inclusion of the actual word "stardust" in this song is a dead giveaway. I see this as dylan's acknowledgement of his debt to nelson's album. it's also interesting that stardust is a cover album, while "modern times" is driven by some "covers" (eg. Someday Baby).
Favorite lines: I'm touched with desire What don't I do? Through flame and through fire I'll build my world around you
Beyond the horizon, at the end of the game Every step that you take, I'm walking the same It's dark and it's dreary I've been pleading in vain I'm wounded, I'm weary My repentance is plain
Beyond the horizon o'r the treacherous sea I still can't believe that you have set aside your love for me
Beyond the horizon, 'neath crimson skies In the soft light of morning I'll follow you with my eyes Through countries and kingdoms and temples of stone Beyond the horizon right down to the bone
Beyond the horizon, the sky is so blue I've got more than a lifetime to live lovin' you
(Sorry, that's just about the whole song, but I would like to add that "round about midnight" is probably a reference, somehow, to Thelonious Monk's "round midnight." I'd like to think that these two lovers are listening a little Monk.)