This deep seeming song is nothing more than Dylan stringing together a bunch of disconnected but compelling story bits. I kept thinking I was missing something in that they don't seem to connect very well, until one day I realized... they just don't. Especially the "moral of this story, the moral of this tale..." at the end. I think Dylan is just playing with the notion of a mythic tale, that isn't really anything at all.
This deep seeming song is nothing more than Dylan stringing together a bunch of disconnected but compelling story bits. I kept thinking I was missing something in that they don't seem to connect very well, until one day I realized... they just don't. Especially the "moral of this story, the moral of this tale..." at the end. I think Dylan is just playing with the notion of a mythic tale, that isn't really anything at all.