repost Dec 8 2006
Bob Dylan's "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" from his 1975 Blood on the Tracks album is a song I discovered comparatively recently. I find the shoulder-bouncing music appealing and the poem lyrics intriguing: I'd like to know the whole story. The one line that thoroughly evokes eye-widening and applause is "The only person on the scene missing was the Jack of Hearts." Apart from visceral appreciation comes the cerebral wonder if the perfect sequence of words came firstly or were the result of several rearrangements. Move "missing" around and see what I mean.
Posted on December 08, 2006 at 07:26 AM |