A slow piano ballad near the middle of New Morning, often counted among the album's finest and most personal songs.
The words
After a lonely winter and a broken romance, the singer imagines settling down to a quiet family life.
The song opens in loneliness: rain, a deserted town and a love that has gone elsewhere. Gradually the singer turns from what he has lost toward a modest dream of marriage, children and a home far away from it all, and wonders if that might be the real meaning of happiness. Dylan sings it slowly over his own piano, and the arrangement grows fuller as hope enters. Its mood moves from melancholy to hopeful calm.
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The words
After a lonely winter and a broken romance, the singer imagines settling down to a quiet family life.
The song opens in loneliness: rain, a deserted town and a love that has gone elsewhere. Gradually the singer turns from what he has lost toward a modest dream of marriage, children and a home far away from it all, and wonders if that might be the real meaning of happiness. Dylan sings it slowly over his own piano, and the arrangement grows fuller as hope enters. Its mood moves from melancholy to hopeful calm.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1970
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