Well, I think that the experience of them is much richer with the song, with the music. Tambourine Man," and seeing the verse on paper - "Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind / Down the foggy ruins of time / Far past the frozen leaves / The haunted, frightened trees" - it does feel as though these lyrics can stand without the song. You said that you don't believe it should be divorced from the music. So he has all of the moods and all of the techniques of any great literary artist. That said, his lyrical style varies tremendously - he can be cutting, he can be whimsical, he can be tragic, really in the space of a single stanza sometimes. First of all, I don't think you should read the lyrics without the song, without the music. Without the music, how do you hear these lyrics or describe them? What are the words you use to describe his work when people can't hear it? But he is telling a whole song about what's going on in America in his time through the idiom of the Bible.
You know, this terrifying story of Abraham - who happens to be his father's name too, so when he's talking about "God said to Abraham, 'Kill me a son,'" yikes, it gets a little personal maybe, too. a highway that runs right through the middle of America, all the way from Minnesota down to the Deep South.
Well, it's the Book of Genesis, right? It's the story of Abraham and Isaac and he's turning it into something that's very, very new. The song "Highway 61 Revisited," the title track from the album released in August 1965 - what do we know from this period in terms of his style?
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