One of the starkest songs on Planet Waves, performed only by Dylan on piano and Robbie Robertson on acoustic guitar.
The words
A man looks back with bitterness and self-disgust on a consuming attachment he is finally ready to leave.
The singer turns on himself, confessing shame for having needed someone or something that brought him only misery. He describes the relationship with a harsh, unforgiving clarity and insists he is done with it. The mood is dark and unrelenting, as the title suggests, with no consoling chorus. Dylan's heavy piano and voice are joined only by Robertson's acoustic guitar, which makes it one of the barest, most intense recordings in his catalogue.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗Listen and watch
The words
A man looks back with bitterness and self-disgust on a consuming attachment he is finally ready to leave.
The singer turns on himself, confessing shame for having needed someone or something that brought him only misery. He describes the relationship with a harsh, unforgiving clarity and insists he is done with it. The mood is dark and unrelenting, as the title suggests, with no consoling chorus. Dylan's heavy piano and voice are joined only by Robertson's acoustic guitar, which makes it one of the barest, most intense recordings in his catalogue.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1974
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