What I Learned From Bob Dylan

A song doesn't have to go from point A to point B on a straight line. Big chunks of the story can drop out of it. People forget details or make them up or tell them in the wrong order. Everybody's version is different. You're likelier to get a movie than a story: continuous snapshots at discrete instants in time. Those images (and sounds and smells) are the story--that and what you use to fill in the blanks.