Definitely one of the great Dylan songs. It's about Sara, anguish at two-timing and betraying her ("there's a babe in the arms of a woman in rage"), losing her, moving on from her, but always missing her. Lots of intense garbled imagery, but if you think of Dylan with another woman and Sara finding her at their house, with their kids, then taking the kids away, the images begin to make sense: including forbidden fruit, leaving town at dawn, the inner conflict, the obscure truths of a broken relationship, truths that you can't live without exploding. There's another woman, another sweet paradise, but the price for that are the scars. It's a divorce song, isn't it? Maybe the great divorce song.
Definitely one of the great Dylan songs. It's about Sara, anguish at two-timing and betraying her ("there's a babe in the arms of a woman in rage"), losing her, moving on from her, but always missing her. Lots of intense garbled imagery, but if you think of Dylan with another woman and Sara finding her at their house, with their kids, then taking the kids away, the images begin to make sense: including forbidden fruit, leaving town at dawn, the inner conflict, the obscure truths of a broken relationship, truths that you can't live without exploding. There's another woman, another sweet paradise, but the price for that are the scars. It's a divorce song, isn't it? Maybe the great divorce song.