Song of the Day 4/17: Bob Dylan, “I Contain Multitudes”
Mr. Zimmerman is at it again. He dropped another new song, again at midnight, without explanation or embellishment. This one’s a lot shorter than “Murder Most Foul,” but it’s similar in its spare instrumental accompaniment and its lyrical obsessions. Still no word on whether this is part of a forthcoming album.
He is large and contains multitudes, just like Walt Whitman, who first used that expression and was another great poet of the American people.