A guy I was pretty close with "sent" this to me after a fight (could be permanent, here, I don't know). I think, he just got tired of "considering life." I think Dylan is literal in his chorus: "People are crazy and times are strange" because the 70's drug culture was just that...completely unpredictable behavior. But I think he's expressing his feeling of being trapped in that culture: "I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range; I used to care, but things have changed" and his subsequent "checking out" of reality. Now, why my guy chose this song to express his own feelings of sadness or loss or anger...well, the last lines, lol. "I hurt easy, I just don't show it; you can hurt someone and not even know it...I'm in love with a woman who don't even appeal to me." Dylan has said in that same verse that he's gonna get low down and gonna fly high: he's going to "lay low," withdraw emotionally, in other words, then fly high, stay stoned. Damn, I just don't like Dylan, lol. It's my guy's favorite, too.
A guy I was pretty close with "sent" this to me after a fight (could be permanent, here, I don't know). I think, he just got tired of "considering life." I think Dylan is literal in his chorus: "People are crazy and times are strange" because the 70's drug culture was just that...completely unpredictable behavior. But I think he's expressing his feeling of being trapped in that culture: "I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range; I used to care, but things have changed" and his subsequent "checking out" of reality. Now, why my guy chose this song to express his own feelings of sadness or loss or anger...well, the last lines, lol. "I hurt easy, I just don't show it; you can hurt someone and not even know it...I'm in love with a woman who don't even appeal to me." Dylan has said in that same verse that he's gonna get low down and gonna fly high: he's going to "lay low," withdraw emotionally, in other words, then fly high, stay stoned. Damn, I just don't like Dylan, lol. It's my guy's favorite, too.