Driftin' Too Far From Shore

The words

A man tells a lover she has wandered too far from him to be brought back.

The singer tells a lover that she has wandered so far from him that there may be no bringing her back. He sounds frustrated and a little bitter, puzzled by her moods and tired of trying, though he cannot quite let her go. The verses circle the same distance between them rather than telling a story, and the tone stays restless throughout. It is one of the few songs on the album Dylan wrote by himself.