To be alone with you lyrics12/21/2023 ![]() “Hey listen Dad I can do this.” “OK son, yes you can. I personally blame the pianist, whose work is out of context, crude, jarring and just erghhh… I think I was playing like that when I was about six years old – no imagination, no originality, I’d just learned it from rock n roll records and was imitating. And that very gentle light start suggests he might be halfway there.īut it never happens. The fact is that Dylan had easily enough talent each day before he woke up and switched on the light to be able to do something very unusual, interesting and exciting with this song. Plus that false modulation in “Too many thoughts” it is too, too, much. And then to sing the last line of the 8 unaccompanied is just so everyday, so much what everyone would do in the middle 8 of every song of this type. Fine – that’s ok if it were to be the nighttime that was the right time to … something very unexpected. Which is about as hackneyed as you can get. Dylan can and does use platitudes and common phrases, but he gets away with it usually by being unexpected in the music, or having given us the everyday phrase, takes us off to somewhere unexpected. If you listen to the first two verses which are taken in a slightly lighter manner than what happens later, before the middle 8 starts to stretch the simplicity and instead gives us what everyone else would have done, then you can have the feeling that despite the simplicity this really could actually turn into a beautiful or at least memorable love song.īut where it all goes wrong is in the middle 8. To be Alone with You is a dead simple song that sticks to the standard format of chords and structure, and it has been suggested in an interview by Dylan that it was part of an experiment musically to grasp something new, but in which that “something” remained forever out of reach.Īnd yes the song does degenerate into, well, not the ordinary, because Bob is never that, but less than it might have been. They say that nighttime is the right timeĪnd oh… I find that hard to take from a man who has given me so many phrases that have peppered my life from teenager to pensioner. Which always makes me think this could have been a delightful song, worthy of Dylan – or at least worth playing once in a way just for old times sake.īut then, talk about throwing it all away we get It’s not brilliant, it’s not a revelation. There is something really rather charming, slightly unexpected, a little unusual in that verse.
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