Hmm, my perception of this one seems to differ a bit from most of the other posts here. It's certainly filled with a lot of loving sentiment, but the tone of the song itself and the way he sings it sound very longing, almost as though he's trying to convince the person it's directed toward of what he's saying. Lines like "Oh, can't you see that you were born to stand by my side" even sort of hint at this interpretation, and "What's lost is lost, we can't regain what went down in the flood" certainly suggests some "trouble in paradise", so to speak; It's the last song on the album before "Blood on the Tracks", and I think it's very much paving the way for the heartbreak, loss, and sorrow so thoroughly explored on that album, a stark contrast to the domestic bliss portrayed on the rest of "Planet Waves".
Hmm, my perception of this one seems to differ a bit from most of the other posts here. It's certainly filled with a lot of loving sentiment, but the tone of the song itself and the way he sings it sound very longing, almost as though he's trying to convince the person it's directed toward of what he's saying. Lines like "Oh, can't you see that you were born to stand by my side" even sort of hint at this interpretation, and "What's lost is lost, we can't regain what went down in the flood" certainly suggests some "trouble in paradise", so to speak; It's the last song on the album before "Blood on the Tracks", and I think it's very much paving the way for the heartbreak, loss, and sorrow so thoroughly explored on that album, a stark contrast to the domestic bliss portrayed on the rest of "Planet Waves".
Just my two cents.