So I've been on a Dylan kick the last week or so. One of my favorite Dylan songs, or perhaps one of my favorite songs of any artist, is "Love Minus Zero/No Limit."
I heard it first being sung by Buck Owens on some obscure album he did in the late '60s. The complex, almost string-of-conscience, lyrics took me off guard from the typical Buck Owens songs (which, albeit clever and smart, are usually typical country cliche ridden).
Filled with contradictions ("speaks like silence", "no success like failure") because after all, isn't an artist loving someone who doesn't really care at all a contradiction in itself? To have someone who doesn't care about what everyone says (even though, for christ sakes, your Bob Dylan) but just love you for who you are. . . now that's a love to write a song about.
"She knows too much to argue or to judge," speaking of the love of my life, I couldn't have said it better.
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