Written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II for the 1929 Broadway show Sweet Adeline, it closes Triplicate and with it Dylan's run of standards albums.
The words
Someone devoted to a lover who does not return the feeling asks what the point of their own life can be.
A person in love with someone who does not love them back wonders aloud why they were ever born, if it was only to want what they cannot have. The song is built as a chain of plain, aching questions that never receive an answer. Its tone is torch-song despair softened by tenderness. As the final track of Triplicate, Dylan's slow, worn reading turns it into a quiet farewell to the whole songbook project.
Words by Oscar Hammerstein II
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The words
Someone devoted to a lover who does not return the feeling asks what the point of their own life can be.
A person in love with someone who does not love them back wonders aloud why they were ever born, if it was only to want what they cannot have. The song is built as a chain of plain, aching questions that never receive an answer. Its tone is torch-song despair softened by tenderness. As the final track of Triplicate, Dylan's slow, worn reading turns it into a quiet farewell to the whole songbook project.
Words by Oscar Hammerstein II
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