Por tudo isso, vale a pena regressar ao imenso e fascinante património lírico de Bob Dylan. Sugestão incontornável: o livro Lyrics 1962-2001 (Simon & Schuster, 2004), com todas as canções que vão desde o primeiro álbum, Bob Dylan (1962), até Love and Theft (2001).
Enquanto esperamos, revisitemos a estrofe de abertura de Not Dark Yet (in Time Out of Mind, 1997):
Shadows are falling and I've been here all day
It's too hot to sleep, time is running away
Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
There's not even room enough to be anywhere
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there