While all other lyrics on "Together through Life" was co-written by Robert Hunter, "This dream of you" was written by Bob Dylan alone. Accordingly it is the top candidate for searching a personal communication from Bob Dylan. In my perception it is a prayer reflecting the questions of a person pursuing his lonesome way of faith (for several decades now) among atheists on one side and religious people immune to learning on
the other.
There are new challenges each day where he might fail or get hurt. Perception and interpretation of the signs and phases along the way requires sharpened senses. Messages often arrive with uncertain clarity like in a dream. Though the reality of the process is not doubted, and it gives the singer a goal for his life to which there is no alternative.
While all other lyrics on "Together through Life" was co-written by Robert Hunter, "This dream of you" was written by Bob Dylan alone. Accordingly it is the top candidate for searching a personal communication from Bob Dylan. In my perception it is a prayer reflecting the questions of a person pursuing his lonesome way of faith (for several decades now) among atheists on one side and religious people immune to learning on the other.
There are new challenges each day where he might fail or get hurt. Perception and interpretation of the signs and phases along the way requires sharpened senses. Messages often arrive with uncertain clarity like in a dream. Though the reality of the process is not doubted, and it gives the singer a goal for his life to which there is no alternative.