What's so obscure about "Someone saved my life tonight"? He was going to get married to this loser woman, and has a conversation with a friend which makes him change his mind.

Geez, I got that back in Junior High School.

And Floyd's Bike is very straightforward. So straightforward you think there's more to it. There isn't. He's just talking about stuff he has.

Then again, too many Dylan songs are just nonsense. You wonder if he didn't get to the point where he thought, "I could write total nonsense, and they'd still buy it," and then went ahead and proved himself right.

Ickle Dorrit, time to switch to decaf? :o) The clouds song is a compare-and-contrast thing. Love is confusing, like clouds or life. She's really not so much contemplating clouds as using them as a metaphor for how enigmatic love can be.

Bagpuss, love the quote. But there ARE songs that are just total fluff. Fortunately most of them are love songs so we don't notice. It was extremely popular in the 80s to write lyrics that were totally worthless. See Tears for Fears, for example. The words to some (not all) of their songs seem to be merely a peg to hang the melody on.

There. There's a piece or two of my mind. Flame away.

ALex