"Nothing Was Delivered" is a tantalizingly open song that permits the insertion of any number of meanings. Is this a junkie talking to his pusher? Or is it just possibly Dylan talking to his God?
Nothing was delivered
And I tell this truth to you
Not out of spite nor anger
But simply because it's true
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Now I hope you don't object to giving
Giving back all of what you owe
The sooner you come up with this
That's as soon as you can go...
Again in this vein, "Too Much of Nothing" is a meditation upon the danger of despair:
Too much of nothing
Can make a man feel ill at ease
One man's temper rises where
Another man's temper might freeze
Now in that day of the Confession
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