“ Outlaw Blues” is an electric blues song that lyrically follows a fugitive traveling through harsh conditions (“Ain’t it hard to stumble and land in some muddy lagoon? Especially when it’s nine below zero and three o’clock in the afternoon.”) as he resents the life of being on the run. Critics have also remarked that the style of the lyrics is reminiscent of William Blake‘s poem “ The Sick Rose“.
The song uses surreal imagery, which some authors and critics have suggested recalls Edgar Allan Poe‘s “ The Raven” and the biblical Book of Daniel. Its main musical hook is a series of three descending chords, while its lyrics articulate Dylan’s feelings for his lover, and have been interpreted as describing how she brings a needed zen-like calm to his chaotic world. “ Love Minus Zero/No Limit” is a love song. The third to fifth lines of each verse elaborate on and explain the sentiment expressed in the verse’s opening/closing lines. “ Maggie’s Farm” follows a straightforward blues structure, with the opening line of each verse (“I ain’t gonna work…”) sung twice, then repeated at the end of the verse. For Halloween buy her a trumpet / And for Christmas, give her a drum.”)
“ She Belongs to Me” extols the bohemian virtues of an artistic lover whose creativity must be constantly fed (“Bow down to her on Sunday / Salute her when her birthday comes. “It’s less an indictment of the system than a coil of imagery that spells out how the system hangs itself with the rope it’s so proud of.” “Snagged by a sour, pinched guitar riff, the song has an acerbic tinge … and Dylan sings the title rejoinders in mock self-pity,” writes music critic Tim Riley. “Subterranean Homesick Blues” became a Top 40 hit for Dylan. The album opens with “ Subterranean Homesick Blues“, heavily inspired by Chuck Berry‘s “ Too Much Monkey Business“. The album abandons the protest music of Dylan’s previous records in favor of more surreal, complex lyrics. On side one of the original LP, Dylan is backed by an electric rock and roll band-a move that further alienated him from some of his former peers in the folk music community. The first half of the album features electric songs, followed by mainly acoustic songs in the second half. It was released on March 22, 1965, by Columbia Records. Bringing It All Back Home is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
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