The second track on Tempest, a slow and gentle ballad with a lilting, old-fashioned doo-wop feel.
The words
A late-night love song from a man who sounds tender and patient, though a quiet menace keeps slipping in.
A man awake in the small hours waits for a woman and tells her how devoted he is. The song moves at an easy, swaying pace, sweet on the surface, but darker hints of jealousy and violence surface between the romantic lines, so the tenderness never feels entirely safe. The band plays softly behind a croon that is half lullaby, half warning, which makes it one of the gentlest and strangest moments on a dark record.
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The words
A late-night love song from a man who sounds tender and patient, though a quiet menace keeps slipping in.
A man awake in the small hours waits for a woman and tells her how devoted he is. The song moves at an easy, swaying pace, sweet on the surface, but darker hints of jealousy and violence surface between the romantic lines, so the tenderness never feels entirely safe. The band plays softly behind a croon that is half lullaby, half warning, which makes it one of the gentlest and strangest moments on a dark record.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 2012
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