A gently swinging song on "Love and Theft" that later drew attention for borrowing lines from Junichi Saga's book Confessions of a Yakuza.
The words
An aging man drifts through memories of family, love and small-town life with dry, rambling humor.
An older narrator muses about his family, his youth, a romance and the passing of time, wandering from topic to topic like a man fishing on a lazy afternoon. His wit is dry and sometimes unsettling, with flashes of violence under the calm. The music is a lilting, old-fashioned swing with fiddle, giving the song the easy feel of a porch tune.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗Listen and watch
The words
An aging man drifts through memories of family, love and small-town life with dry, rambling humor.
An older narrator muses about his family, his youth, a romance and the passing of time, wandering from topic to topic like a man fishing on a lazy afternoon. His wit is dry and sometimes unsettling, with flashes of violence under the calm. The music is a lilting, old-fashioned swing with fiddle, giving the song the easy feel of a porch tune.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 2001
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