https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FaUx-Re8i0


For starters.

If that isn't poetry then I don't know much about poetry.

Much of the time, I like to read the lyrics before the musical accompaniment so that I can get a feel for the song and its meaning before the instruments have a chance to color the emotional impression.

Of course, what I read and what Bob Dylan delivers are two different animals--a happy accident that makes me a very rich human being.

I think this place is full of spies
I think they're onto me

Didn't anybody, didn't anybody tell you?
Didn't anybody tell you how to gracefully disappear in a room?

..I know you put in the hours to keep me in sunglasses, I know

And so, and now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
It went the wicked and ordinary way

I think this place is full of spies
I think I'm ruined

Didn't anybody tell you this river's full of lost sharks?

..I know you put in the hours to keep me in sunglasses, I know


And so, and now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
It went the wicked and ordinary way

-- my interpretation of some poetic lyrics from The National..


..heaven knows I couldn't explain if I tried why I found the line about the basement of the brain so funny and fitting--it'll do for now )

Thanks for asking, David..mighty cool of you )

I want to read this after seeing just the title...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KrCTNeuvmqA&pp=ygUhdGhlIG5hdGlvbmFsIGJhc2VtZW50IG9mIG15IGJyYWlu

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D0zaDYUdB4Y&pp=ygUodGhlIGRheSBraW5nIGhhcnJ5IGdvdCBoaXMgaGFtcHRvbiBjb3VydA%3D%3D