tangled up in blue

Tangled Up in Blue is one of the clearest examples of Dylan's attempts to write "multi-dimensional" songs which defied a fixed notion of time and space. Dylan was influenced by his recent study of the Cubists who sought to incorporate multiple perspectives within a single plane of view. In a 1978 interview, Dylan explained this style of songwriting: "What's different about it is that there's a code in the lyrics, and there's also no sense of time. There's no respect for it. You've got yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same room, and there's very little you can't imagine not happening."  Dylan said he wrote the song after spending a weekend immersed in Joni Mitchell's Blue.

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