I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.

Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.