The third track on Tempest, a long, hard-driving blues built on a repeating riff.
The words
A weary, stubborn man insists that one day he and the woman he wants will finally meet halfway.
A narrator who has wandered and suffered addresses a woman who keeps her distance, swearing that if he cannot climb up to her, she will one day have to come down to him. Verse after verse returns to that promise as a refrain, mixing boasts, grievances and stray images of hardship and travel. The groove barely changes, rolling forward relentlessly, and the song's length turns it into an endurance test of longing and pride.
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The words
A weary, stubborn man insists that one day he and the woman he wants will finally meet halfway.
A narrator who has wandered and suffered addresses a woman who keeps her distance, swearing that if he cannot climb up to her, she will one day have to come down to him. Verse after verse returns to that promise as a refrain, mixing boasts, grievances and stray images of hardship and travel. The groove barely changes, rolling forward relentlessly, and the song's length turns it into an endurance test of longing and pride.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 2012
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