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Apr 18th 2016!⃝For me it's about the singer, a guy called Bob Dylan, using fairly poetic language to ask some lady who's just popped round, to lay across his bed which just happens to be relatively big and also made for the most part of brass.
He also apparently thinks her head is filled with m&m's and he's going to prove it to her, too, perhaps with a small but powerful torch he keeps for just such occasions and which he intends to use to bring light to the proceedings!
Beyond this, Bob seems to hope she'll stay for more than just 'a bit' and even, hopefully, to amuse him until he has to get up (apparently, pretty early), maybe because he's unhappy about how dirty he's let his one shirt get, lately, and so intends to finally wash it. His hands, he points out in his defence, bear no such grime.
He also thinks she's 'the best thing that he's ever seen' (quite possibly because of the m&m's in the ear trick!).
He also questions why she would wait any longer 'for the world to begin' and even entices her with the promise of a actually being able to eat the slice of cake he'd kindly brought to her bedside table (more m&m's on it?).
Further, he questions why she should wait any longer for the 'one she loves' (himself or m&m's cake?.. unclear) although Bob himself is apparently hovering bedside hoping for a positive outcome.
To boot, he's also fairly insistent that the laying (across) should start NOW, early on in the night, or evening time if you like, whilst he percieves that the rest of the night is still to come (or 'is still ahead', indeed.) Seeing her in the morning would also actually be quite welcome, especially after a night of possibly reaching out, maybe to check she's still there! (a bit of insecurity there?)
Well, its a thought! No disrespect meant, all just for laughs, and anyway it's actually my favourite Dylan song. I also think its pretty self explanatory as is most of his work. He doesn't hide much, really, story-teller and preacher that he is. Legend. I'm also just learning this on the ukulele. Hope I do it at least a modicum of justice!
