<P> According to novelist Ron Rosenbaum, Bob Dylan once told him that he'd written "Tangled up in Blue", after spending a weekend immersed in Joni Mitchell's 1971 album Blue . </P> <P> "Tangled Up in Blue" is one of the clearest examples of Dylan's attempts to write "multi-dimensional" songs which defied a fixed notion of time and space . Dylan was influenced by his recent study of painting and the Cubist school of artists, who sought to incorporate multiple perspectives within a single plane of view . As Neil McCormick remarked in 2003: "A truly extraordinary epic of the personal, an unreliable narrative carved out of shifting memories like a five - and - a-half - minute musical Proust ." In a 1978 interview Dylan explained this style of songwriting: "What's different about it is that there's a code in the lyrics, and there's also no sense of time . There's no respect for it . You've got yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same room, and there's very little you can't imagine not happening". </P> <P> The lyrics are at times opaque, but the song seems to be (like most of the songs on the album) the tale of a love that has, for the time being, ended, although not by choice; the last verse begins: </P> <Dl> <Dd> So now I'm goin' back again, </Dd> <Dd> I got to get to her somehow...</Dd> </Dl>

Meaning of bob dylan's tangled up in blue