A piano-led New Morning song set in a hotel, often read by listeners as a veiled account of a meeting with Elvis Presley.
The words
A traveller goes to see a famous fortune-teller in a big hotel, but the encounter slips away like a dream.
The singer visits a celebrated figure called the gypsy, who is staying in a grand hotel, and finds himself welcomed but uncertain what passed between them. When he returns, the gypsy has gone, and he wanders out into a quiet small-town dawn. The song has a hazy, dreamlike quality, with hints of a pilgrimage that ends in anticlimax. A rolling piano and a relaxed band keep it gently mysterious.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗Listen and watch
The words
A traveller goes to see a famous fortune-teller in a big hotel, but the encounter slips away like a dream.
The singer visits a celebrated figure called the gypsy, who is staying in a grand hotel, and finds himself welcomed but uncertain what passed between them. When he returns, the gypsy has gone, and he wanders out into a quiet small-town dawn. The song has a hazy, dreamlike quality, with hints of a pilgrimage that ends in anticlimax. A rolling piano and a relaxed band keep it gently mysterious.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1970
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