Angel faces hell-bent for violence.

Werner Bischof - Caryatids, Acropolis, Athens, 1946

Tangled Up in Blue is one of the clearest examples of Bob Dylan’s attempts to write “multi-dimensional” songs which defied a fixed notion of time and space. It has been described as, “The most dazzling lyric ever written, an abstract narrative of relationships told in an amorphous blend of first and third person, rolling past, present and future together, spilling out in tripping cadences and audacious internal rhymes, ripe with sharply turned images and observations and filled with a painfully desperate longing.” When Dylan introduced it onstage in 1978, he described it as a song that took him “10 years to live and two years to write.” Rolling Stone ranked it #68 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. x