bruce springsteen- i want you

how did i not know this existed? springsteen covering one of my fave dylan songs.
i've always been drawn to dylan's love songs. there's never been anything simple about them. they're complicated and sad and scatter shot and pleading and angry and completely loving. which is how i feel lately.
and for all the wordiness in this song, all the characters and metaphor, it could have been edited down to just the chorus:

i want you
honey i want you
i want you
so bad.

sometimes i wish i was somewhere else. sometimes i wish i was in the audience in philly, '75, hearing this song live. sipping a lukewarm domestic, sneaking peeks at the girls dancing slowly at the front of the stage.

that's not where i wish i was tonight.