If Dogs Run Free Lyrics

Lyric discussion by fjording 

Cover art for If Dogs Run Free lyrics by Bob Dylan

but they can't :p they are all in a leash or a handbag even.

He's not just talking about physical freedom, but about a certain mental state which dogs display and humans do not. Running free not only over terrain, but across the swamp of time, the cycle of life, existence, making peace with the finite.