When we listen to Dylan's bleaker songs, his empathic voice and the moods of his sounds make the hardness and the longing real. Dylan's lyrics are the third big part of his art. His words can be profoundly simple, like Willie Nelson's.
Or they can come at us in cascades of images, like T.S. Eliot on speed.
He has seen and felt a lot during a life outside the normal stream.
