‘City's just a jungle, more games to play
Trapped in the heart of it, trying to get away
I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town
I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down’
Just like Time Out of Mind it’s fragmentary and elegiac… has lots of wonderful mirrorings with Blood on the Tracks. I like Bob’s voice in this one immensely. In terms of this century, maybe only bested by Rough and Rowdy Ways.
relistened straight through for the first time in a while… still his best. Not Dark Yet is the moving song ever written.