Dating and trading
Are similar. If you're long,
Someone else is short.
I used the best-guess lyrics as written by Eyolf Ostrem on his dylanchords.info website for this song. It's another half-finished item from the 1967 Basement Tapes sessions with the Band. It sounds like it nearly could have been something. You can hear it on volume 11 of the Bootleg Series. As for the haiku, I think that the connection between love, loss and capitalist trading structures is more than clear.
[First verse inaudible]
[Let's take a cherry], I can't make it no more
Can't stop, she's breaking all time on the floor
Better come down easy or don't come down at all
You don't try and to please me, somebody's gonna fall
One man's loss always is another man's gain
Yes, one man's joy always is another man's pain
Eight o'clock in the morning, [better] step aside (I think he said three o'clock)
[let me be to your] warning, you better go by
Three times a loser, number 45
better not lose her, best stayed alive
One man's loss always is another man's gain
Yes, one man's joy always is another man's pain
Wish I'd have found me [...] at the wall
One look at the watch, you better [lord at all]
You can't stop it or wait it [...] at night
Too hard to keep you waiting, calls me aside
One man's loss always is another man's gain
Yes, one man's joy always is another man's pain
Are similar. If you're long,
Someone else is short.
I used the best-guess lyrics as written by Eyolf Ostrem on his dylanchords.info website for this song. It's another half-finished item from the 1967 Basement Tapes sessions with the Band. It sounds like it nearly could have been something. You can hear it on volume 11 of the Bootleg Series. As for the haiku, I think that the connection between love, loss and capitalist trading structures is more than clear.
[First verse inaudible]
[Let's take a cherry], I can't make it no more
Can't stop, she's breaking all time on the floor
Better come down easy or don't come down at all
You don't try and to please me, somebody's gonna fall
One man's loss always is another man's gain
Yes, one man's joy always is another man's pain
Eight o'clock in the morning, [better] step aside (I think he said three o'clock)
[let me be to your] warning, you better go by
Three times a loser, number 45
better not lose her, best stayed alive
One man's loss always is another man's gain
Yes, one man's joy always is another man's pain
Wish I'd have found me [...] at the wall
One look at the watch, you better [lord at all]
You can't stop it or wait it [...] at night
Too hard to keep you waiting, calls me aside
One man's loss always is another man's gain
Yes, one man's joy always is another man's pain
Hello Robert, yes another piece of historical analysis. Written enough then come inside Bob Dylan's Music Box http://thebobdylanproject.com/Song/id/470/One-Man's-Loss and listen to every version of every song.
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