Editing Bringing It All Back Home (section)

=== Side one ===
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==== "Subterranean Homesick Blues" ====
The album opens with "[[Subterranean Homesick Blues]]", heavily inspired by [[Chuck Berry]]'s "[[Too Much Monkey Business]]". "Subterranean Homesick Blues" became a Top 40 hit for Dylan. "Snagged by a sour, pinched guitar riff, the song has an acerbic tinge … and Dylan sings the title rejoinders in mock self-pity," writes music critic [[Tim Riley (music critic)|Tim Riley]]. "It's less an indictment of the system than a coil of imagery that spells out how the system hangs itself with the rope it's so proud of."

==== "She Belongs to Me" ====
"[[She Belongs to Me]]" extols the bohemian virtues of an artistic lover whose creativity must be constantly fed ("Bow down to her on Sunday / Salute her when her birthday comes. / For Halloween buy her a trumpet / And for Christmas, give her a drum.")

==== "Maggie's Farm" ====
"[[Maggie's Farm]]" contains themes of social, economic and political criticism, with lines such as "Well I try my best to be just like I am/But everybody wants you to be just like them" and "Well, I wake up in the morning, fold my hands and pray for rain/I got a head full of ideas that are drivin' me insane". It follows a straightforward blues structure, with the opening line of each verse ("I ain't gonna work...") sung twice, then repeated at the end of the verse. The third to fifth lines of each verse elaborate on and explain the sentiment expressed in the verse's opening/closing lines. It references working for Maggie, her father, her mother, and her brother on a farm.

==== "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" ====
"[[Love Minus Zero/No Limit]]" is a love song. Its main musical hook is a series of three descending [[Chord (music)|chords]], while its lyrics articulate Dylan's feelings for his lover, and have been interpreted as describing how she brings a needed [[zen]]-like calm to his chaotic world. The song uses surreal imagery, which some authors and critics have suggested recalls [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s "[[The Raven]]" and the biblical [[Book of Daniel]]. Critics have also remarked that the style of the lyrics is reminiscent of [[William Blake]]'s poem "[[The Sick Rose]]".

==== "Outlaw Blues" ====
"[[Outlaw Blues (Bob Dylan song)|Outlaw Blues]]" is an [[electric blues]] song that lyrically follows a fugitive traveling through harsh conditions ("Ain't it hard to stumble and land in some muddy lagoon?/Especially when it's nine below zero and three o'clock in the afternoon") as he resents the life of being on the run.

==== "On the Road Again" ====
"[[On the Road Again (Bob Dylan song)|On the Road Again]]" catalogs the absurd affectations and degenerate living conditions of bohemia. The song concludes: "Then you ask why I don't live here / Honey, how come you don't move?"

==== "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" ====
"[[Bob Dylan's 115th Dream]]" narrates a surreal experience involving the discovery of America, "Captain Arab" (a clear reference to [[Ahab (Moby-Dick)|Captain Ahab]] of ''[[Moby Dick]]''), and numerous bizarre encounters. It is the longest song in the electric section of the album, starting out as an acoustic ballad before being interrupted by laughter, and then starting back up again with an electric blues rhythm. The music is so similar in places to ''Another Side of Bob Dylan''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "[[Motorpsycho Nitemare]]" as to be indistinguishable from it but for the electric instrumentation. The song can be best read as a highly sardonic, non-linear (historically) dreamscape parallel cataloguing of the discovery, creation and merits (or lack thereof) of the United States.