Like a Rolling Stone

The words

A sneering address to a once-privileged woman who has fallen and must now fend for herself.

The singer turns on a woman who once lived in comfort and looked down on others, and who now finds herself alone, broke and without a home. Verse after verse he lists the friends and privileges she relied on and shows how each has failed her, then lands on a chorus that taunts and challenges at once. Beneath the scorn runs a strange sense of release, as if losing everything has set her free. Rolling organ and a long, surging band arrangement drive it.