Inspired by a brief affair with Sam Shepard during Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Review, this song swirls and dips between desire and reality, flirting the whole time. The singer knows it will never work, yet can’t resist:
And the next thing i know
That coyote’s at my door
He pins me in a corner and he won’t take “no!”
He drags me out on the dance floor
And we’re dancing close and slow
Now he’s got a woman at home
He’s got another woman down the hall
He seems to want me anyway
Why’d you have to get so drunk
And lead me on that way
You just picked up a hitcher
A prisoner of the white lines of the freeway
It’s the lead song on the Hejira and one of the songs Mitchell performed at the Last Waltz.
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