This is a long shot but recently I came across an old photograph of teenage Dylan playing what looked like an Arabic Drum. That added something in the meaning of this song for me personally. In that context, I think warehouse eyes might be a reference to his childhood neighborhood buildings full of warehouses possibly as his town was a coal mining town or maybe the warehouse his father had to store his electrical machinery that he sold or worked on etc. This is a wild long shot, it may not be relevant for some at all, but it is to me in some way so sharing it here. He has come all through these years of growing up to the lowlands where the sad eyed lady lives and where no one comes, with his past of arabian drums and warehouse eyes, he wants to submit it all to her and look for salvation from Time maybe which only she can provide through her mystique, love and feminine powers etc. But she isn't there yet, she is out somewhere or maybe he is not that pure or mature yet to invoke her in front of him so he asks from the outside 'Should I put it all here and leave or should I wait for you to show up and take me in?'
This is a long shot but recently I came across an old photograph of teenage Dylan playing what looked like an Arabic Drum. That added something in the meaning of this song for me personally. In that context, I think warehouse eyes might be a reference to his childhood neighborhood buildings full of warehouses possibly as his town was a coal mining town or maybe the warehouse his father had to store his electrical machinery that he sold or worked on etc. This is a wild long shot, it may not be relevant for some at all, but it is to me in some way so sharing it here. He has come all through these years of growing up to the lowlands where the sad eyed lady lives and where no one comes, with his past of arabian drums and warehouse eyes, he wants to submit it all to her and look for salvation from Time maybe which only she can provide through her mystique, love and feminine powers etc. But she isn't there yet, she is out somewhere or maybe he is not that pure or mature yet to invoke her in front of him so he asks from the outside 'Should I put it all here and leave or should I wait for you to show up and take me in?'