A torch ballad from the 1950s songbook that Frank Sinatra recorded, sitting early on the first disc of Triplicate.
The words
Someone who watched a lover leave says he saw it coming all along and was hurt anyway.
The singer looks back on a love that ended the way he always suspected it would, and he speaks with more weariness than bitterness. The song is a slow, brooding ballad, built on the gap between knowing and still being unable to stop yourself. Dylan takes it at a patient pace with a muted band, letting his weathered voice carry the sense of someone who learned nothing from his own warnings.
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The words
Someone who watched a lover leave says he saw it coming all along and was hurt anyway.
The singer looks back on a love that ended the way he always suspected it would, and he speaks with more weariness than bitterness. The song is a slow, brooding ballad, built on the gap between knowing and still being unable to stop yourself. Dylan takes it at a patient pace with a muted band, letting his weathered voice carry the sense of someone who learned nothing from his own warnings.
Lyrics on Lyrics.com ↗The same year · 2017
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