![]() ![]() Won’t you let me in your room one time ’fore I finally disappear? I love to see you dress before the mirror I see you in the streets, I begin to swoon I come back to the town from the flaming moon Yet he needs to see her one more time before he finally bids farewell (although something tells us that even if he did, he’d still try and get back to her, rather than bid a tragic farewell.) But the truth is he can’t even bear to see her. The head rules by the heart brings sorrow, as the saying goes, and he’s been brought sorrow although you wouldn’t know this by the singing of the song. He’s always off somewhere when I need him mostīut my heart is a-tellin’ me I love you still My patron saint is a-fighting with a ghost Right, that is clear – he has been fooling himself, in love with the notion of being in love, upset by the parting, not by the loss, tied to the past by his own false visions. Oh, something’s telling me I wear the ball and chain I thought that he was righteous but he’s vain I’ve been deceived by the clown inside of me OK, that is yearning, but then we are off both in terms of the lyrics. The opening line of the studio version (not included in the live version) tells us exactly what is going on…. It seems to owe more to some Irish folk songs in which the subject is death, doom, destruction, poverty etc, and yet the whole piece sounds rather jolly. ![]() This song is bouncing along, and no matter what the words say it is hard to find it “yearning” or full of “grief” with such a musical background. Indeed I would argue that if you play the piece, especially the studio recording, it is hard to hear it as any of these. There is a recording of this remarkable performance on YouTube and I do recommend it…Īll Music doesn’t review the song but attempts to cover every aspect of the song’s meaning by simply listing the song as “Yearning”, “Feeling blue”, “In love”, “Grief”, “Reflection” which makes my currently stalled Classification file on this site look almost sensible. Jack appeared so speechless and overwhelmed by Dylan’s performance that he started his next song with Bob’s buzzing guitar. After he finished, he returned to his seat near the back of the club and quietly watched the rest of the show. We all felt we were watching history in the making. It was an incredible feeling to be in that small club listening to Bob Dylan perform a new song. Joe Kivak has written a piece about the show which I would highly recommend. Certainly Abandoned Love was recorded on 31 July 1975, although not released until Biograph, and we know it was earlier performed at The Bitter End cafe on Bleecker Street in on 3 July 1975, during a show with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott which was recorded illicitly. My order of the songwriting is identical to Heylin at this point so what is going on? It is hard to say although in writing the reviews of those earlier songs I have suggested that if Levy is there, his influence is minimal. Yet shows Oh Sister as “WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN AND JACQUES LEVY” and Romance in Durango the same – as with Money Blues. ![]() If Heylin is right then Levy did not have any involvement in those earlier songs. But I shall try.Īccording to Heylin Abandoned Love was the last song Dylan wrote before meeting up with Jacques Levy, which is odd, because when we look at the songs of the year in chronological order of writing it was clearly written at this point … Let me say from the start, I utterly love this song and always have, and that makes it harder to give anything remotely like a balanced review. ![]()
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