Bob Dylan quote of the week

We sat in an empty theater and we kissed,
I asked ya please to cross me off-a your list.
My head tells me it's time to make a change
But my heart is telling me I love ya but you're strange.
("Abandoned Love")

Yes, you could just consider it maudlin. But somehow it's still evocative. Is the theatre empty because they snuck in? Have they stayed late after the show? And the head and heart in opposition to each other -- now there's an old theme. But here instead of the sense of a tortuous relationship, we just learn that she's "strange." What might come off sounding like an insult turns instead into something truly endearing.