What is love? Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more Oh baby, don't hurt me, don't hurt me No more What is love? Yeah No, I don't know why you're not fair I give you my love, but you don't care So what is right and what is wrong? Gimme a sign What is love? Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more What is love? Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh, oh Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh, oh Oh, I don't know, what can I do? What else can I say? It's up to you I know we're one, just me and you I can't go on What is love? Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more What is love? Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh, oh Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh, oh What is love? What is love? What is love? Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more Don't hurt me Don't hurt me I want no other, no other lover This is our life, our time If we are together, I need you forever Is it love? What is love? Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more What is love? Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more Yeah, yeah Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh, oh Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh, oh What is love? Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more What is love? Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more (whoa, whoa) Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more (whoa, whoa) Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more What is love?
In this song, Dylan repeats the lines "Take the rag away from your face / Now ain't the time for your tears."
He uses these lines throughout the song in order to tell the listener that *this* isn't what they should be upset about. Don't get upset that this woman was murdered. Don't get upset that she was only a maid. Now isn't the time to get upset about these things.
By the end of the song, however, this line changes. It now becomes "Bury the rag deep in your face/ For now's the time for your tears." Dylan says that now is the time to cry because justice was not served. Zanzinger only got six months for the murder of an innocent woman.
Therefore, the repetition of these lines allows Dylan to indicate the true tragedy of this story.
I feel like agree with (B) much more because in the question it states that the quote has to show the "cultural complexity" of the genre meaning that its not as static as it was before as mentioned in question A. , but how it evolved over-time thus becoming more complex : branching out into different ideas of race and class .
