What do you think of my interpretation of Bob Dylan’s song, “Shelter From the Storm”?

I’ve always thought, and listening to it again, still think it’s about a lover or brief encounter with someone who is giving you a respite from the storms of life. I don’t see it in any way as giving up or having a negative connotation. We all need to take shelter sometimes and rest before resuming the struggle.

A first time hearing this song for me. I think Bob Dylan is a great american poet!
Which makes interpreting this very personal AND a great read!

I’ll wait for more.

It’s about mistaking a kindness for romance.

I’ve read that Dylan wrote the song about his now-ex-wife.

For many of us in recovery, it depicts a helping hand being available when one hits bottom in whatever personal crisis is occurring.

I look on it as a love song but love seen from a distance after the romance has long since cooled down and the relationship is viewed in a less romantic light. It is a way of the writer getting an old relationship out of his system but still some regrets remain.

“If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born”.

It is from Blood on the Tracks, which is the album he made during the divorce from his first wife, Sara. Jakob Dylan(Bob and Sara’s youngest son and lead singer of the Wallflowers) says listening to that album is like listening to his parents talk.