Dylan’s “The Night We Called It a Day” is a song that encapsulates the fight between (in this case) two aging men for a much younger femme fatale. The video is from the album “Shadows in the Night” and is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOxy_... The story is a noir staple—as in Goodis’ Street of No Return, Williams’ Hill Girl, Thompson’s A Hell of a Woman, Appel’s Sweet Money Girl, Homes’ Build My Gallows High, Brewer’s The Vengeful virgin, or Cain’s Double Indemnity. The lyrics are a lament for a break-up. The moon is down, shrouded in cloud; there are no stars; the owl sings sadly; the dawn was sunless. “There wasn’t a thing left to say.” It’s an intense lament of the isolation that only a final kiss-off can bring about. The video adds the story line.. Two men in their 50s meet in a bar. They wear rumpled shirts and ties. A blonde dances on stage . One of the men has a deep scar on his right cheek; the other is Dylan. His voice is all the more beautiful for its occasional scratchiness. He shows his friend an engagement ring, and is congratulated. But when he goes to the blonde’s apartment, Dylan is there, holding a gun on him. Then the blonde chloroforms and bashes Dylan’s friend’s head in. It’s a turn on for her, reminiscent of Cora and Frank making love over the body of her husband in The Postman Always Rings Twice. The femme fatale and Dylan, in an elevator going down, have guns pointed on each other’s stomachs. In a brightly lit empty corridor, she fall,. He escapes with the cops shooting at his car. The End.
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The story is a noir staple—as in Goodis’ Street of No Return, Williams’ Hill Girl, Thompson’s A Hell of a Woman, Appel’s Sweet Money Girl, Homes’ Build My Gallows High, Brewer’s The Vengeful virgin, or Cain’s Double Indemnity.
The lyrics are a lament for a break-up. The moon is down, shrouded in cloud; there are no stars; the owl sings sadly; the dawn was sunless. “There wasn’t a thing left to say.” It’s an intense lament of the isolation that only a final kiss-off can bring about. The video adds the story line.. Two men in their 50s meet in a bar. They wear rumpled shirts and ties. A blonde dances on stage . One of the men has a deep scar on his right cheek; the other is Dylan. His voice is all the more beautiful for its occasional scratchiness. He shows his friend an engagement ring, and is congratulated. But when he goes to the blonde’s apartment, Dylan is there, holding a gun on him. Then the blonde chloroforms and bashes Dylan’s friend’s head in. It’s a turn on for her, reminiscent of Cora and Frank making love over the body of her husband in The Postman Always Rings Twice. The femme fatale and Dylan, in an elevator going down, have guns pointed on each other’s stomachs. In a brightly lit empty corridor, she fall,. He escapes with the cops shooting at his car. The End.