It’s both childish and mature, and ultimately just genuine. Instead he sings “I’m not asking you to say words like yes or no, please understand me / I have no place I’m calling you to go … Mama, you’re just on my mind.” It’s a kind of half-hearted resignation. To my mind, the song is doubly tender– tender in its show of affection, and tender in its show of restraint.ĭylan doesn’t say “I need you” or “you complete me” or “baby come back” or anything like that. It’s about a love that burns but does not consume love required to exist in ambiguity. It’s about something subtler and more complicated. It’s not about love sought or love achieved or love betrayed or any of those timeless motifs that abound across musical genres. It’s a love song that is not cut from a clean template. It provides a rich and moving glimpse into a relationship that is at a “crossroads”– forced to pivot into a new phase by some unnamed force. This is one of my all-time favorite Dylan songs. I’d just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear When you wake up in the mornin’ baby look inside your mirror. I’m just whispering to myself so I can’t pretend that I don’t know. I’m not askin’ you to say words like yes or no. I don’t even mind who’ll you be waking with tomorrow. Where you been don’t bother me or bring me down with sorrow. I do not pace the floor bowed down and bent but yet,Įven though my eyes are hazy and my thoughts they might be narrow I am not pleading or saying I can’t forget you. I don’t mean trouble please don’t put me down or get upset. Or maybe it’s the weather or somethin’ like that. Perhaps it’s the color of the sun cut flat and coverin’
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