The skeleton keys are a dense macabre, but they are also the keys to the kingdom, master keys that open the secrets of the rain, itself one of Dylan’s master symbols. Many of the Dylan commentators love the next to last line – The “harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain.” Dylan author John Hinchey writes: Blind’s Man Bluff is a game of tag, so I don’t understand what a key chain has to do with it.Īnd what about that bit about the “fish truck explodes”? What? “The ladies play blindman’s bluff with the key chain”. Somehow that’s interesting, if incomprehensible. “Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin’ you to defy it”. “She’s delicate and seems like the mirror” seems awkward every time I hear it. He’s sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all, There are some lines, at least to my mind, that really misfire: I don’t think it’s one of Dylan’s all-time greats. By pop music standards Visions is an epic, a tragic opera that ruminates on how love can overcome the emptiness of our lonely and otherwise pointless existence. Visions of Johanna is one of Dylan’s most ambitious lyrics, and for that reason alone it’s due much respect.
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