Released as a single from Street-Legal, it is a slow ballad with the album's gospel-style backing singers.
The words
A man tries to comfort a heartbroken woman and offers to help her if she will let him.
The singer speaks to a woman who is distraught after being hurt by someone else, and he offers himself as a friend and protector. Each verse sketches her trouble and his willingness to take her side, returning to a pleading chorus asking her to dry her tears. The tone is tender but also a little helpless, as if he is unsure she wants him. Slow, swelling saxophone and the backing singers give it a soulful, almost doo-wop warmth.
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The words
A man tries to comfort a heartbroken woman and offers to help her if she will let him.
The singer speaks to a woman who is distraught after being hurt by someone else, and he offers himself as a friend and protector. Each verse sketches her trouble and his willingness to take her side, returning to a pleading chorus asking her to dry her tears. The tone is tender but also a little helpless, as if he is unsure she wants him. Slow, swelling saxophone and the backing singers give it a soulful, almost doo-wop warmth.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1978
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