One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)

One of Us Must Know ( Sooner or Later ) is a folk rock song by Bob Dylan, who appeared on on his seventh studio album Blonde Blonde and was produced by Bob Johnston. Almost simultaneously with the release of the album was the song as a single with the Queen Jane Approximately B-side on the market.

Formation

Dylan took One of Us Must Know on January 25, 1966 on Columbia Records. According to allmusic.com, the song originated in a session that should work then deliberately bring about a successful single. The latest single, Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window was not as successful have been in the charts as the previous Like a Rolling Stone and Positively 4th Street. With Dylan (guitar and harmonica) played music on the day the later The Band members Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko on guitar and bass, and Al Kooper on organ, Paul Griffin on piano and Sandy Konikoff on drums. In addition to One of Us Must Know ( Sooner or Later ) I'll Keep It With Mine also and an alternative version of Visions of Johanna, but not on the album Blonde Blonde was used arisen.

Publication

While the album Blonde on Blonde is reached well sold and significant placements in the charts, it managed the first single One of Us Must Know difficult in the Billboard charts, finishing only rank 119th in the UK, the song reached number 33 It followed by four further single releases, which all ran better than this first. The most successful was Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35, the controversial opening song of the album. He made it in America at # 2 on the charts.

The text

Formally, there is the song of three stanzas of eight verses and a chorus à consisting of four verses and at the end of each verse is played.

The lyrics describe the excuse of the lyrical ego of his ex - girlfriend and makes the relationship again briefly pass in review. Here, the protagonist initially thought in mind that she was doing just a short-lived affair.

In the second verse it is clear that it also came within the relationship to errors in communication.

The lyrical I is astonished by the directness of the woman who openly represents their interests and older worked for him as she was.

In the third stanza is the protagonist clear that the relationship with nothing leads ( I could not see where we were goin ') and it finally comes to a dispute that ends the relationship. The narrator asserts in the chorus several times that he had seriously tried to get close to her and one day one of them would have to know that.

Discussions

In fan and critic circles have been widely discussed, whom Dylan sings in this song. A name often falls is that of Edie Sedgwick, which is traded as a possible inspiration for snappy Dylan songs like Like a Rolling Stone or Just Like a Woman. Dylan has, as usual, is not expressed on the interpretation of the text.