A very beautiful song, and like arabhammerhead said, somewhat like Lay Lady Lay
I think that song is about conceit as well, and Like A Rolling Stone
It shows the emotional evolution of Dylan, too
Like A Rolling Stone is angry, youthful, spite-fulled, vengeful, mean and oppositional toward the girl who is now no longer in the lap of luxury.
Lay Lady Lay is more a middle-aged, everyman view of it, just an honest working-class joe who loves this girl. I love the line "my clothes are dirty but my hands are clean"
And here, he is expanding the idea of conceit into a universal thing. Like the narrator in Like A Rolling Stone, is now suffering from the disease as much as the girl was at one time, and maybe the woman in Lay Lady Lay didn't lay, because she was conceited. And so her and the man in the song both suffer. It ties in everything. Very important song, to me, in the Dylan canon.
A very beautiful song, and like arabhammerhead said, somewhat like Lay Lady Lay I think that song is about conceit as well, and Like A Rolling Stone It shows the emotional evolution of Dylan, too
Like A Rolling Stone is angry, youthful, spite-fulled, vengeful, mean and oppositional toward the girl who is now no longer in the lap of luxury.
Lay Lady Lay is more a middle-aged, everyman view of it, just an honest working-class joe who loves this girl. I love the line "my clothes are dirty but my hands are clean"
And here, he is expanding the idea of conceit into a universal thing. Like the narrator in Like A Rolling Stone, is now suffering from the disease as much as the girl was at one time, and maybe the woman in Lay Lady Lay didn't lay, because she was conceited. And so her and the man in the song both suffer. It ties in everything. Very important song, to me, in the Dylan canon.