This is a very sweet song, written by a father for his son (Jakob Dylan, the youngest of four children that Bob Dylan had with first wife, Sara). Dylan is a songwriter of unparalleled talent, so why is he producing lyrics that read like a Hallmark card? He once wrote a bittersweet love song about words that poured off every page as if they were written in his soul. He once asked how many roads a man must walk down. But on “Forever Young” — which appears twice on the 1974 album Planet Waves — Dylan falls back on trite phrases like: “May you build a ladder to the stars/ And climb on every rung.”
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