"A Simple Twist of Fate"

Sometimes when riding in my car I envision myself in a scene of my favorite song. The music I listen to plays a significant part in my fantasies of a music themed life. One of the main songs that inspired me to write on the topic of fate and freewill is the song “Simple Twist of Fate” by Bob Dylan. Dylan released this song on his “Blood on the Tracks” album in 1975, which happens to be my favorite album of all time and is extremely inspirational. The song tells a story of a woman he meets on the street and he instantly falls in love with her. They end of spending the night together and then in the morning she is gone from his life, he wonders to himself “how long should I wait, one more time for a simple twist of fate”. This is a confusing concept because maybe the woman that left ruined her own fate by leaving that morning without a word. Could it be that we can ruin our fate and not be able to get it back once destroyed. In the end of the song he makes it sound like fate that she left because “she was born in spring, but I was born too late, blame it on a simple twist of fate”. So maybe Dylan is trying to tell us that there is no free will and that everything has a purpose in our lives, even the things and people that don’t stay.