The song's lyrics have been described as "generic pop lyrics".
There is the surface meaning, forging sexuality with pop lyrics that sound so sweet.
The archetypal pop lyric is "I want to hold your hand" - sung by the person who wrote and, presumably, felt it.
According to one source, the theme of the song's "hopeless pop romantic" lyrics are about "struggling to make his marriage work."
Such eternal questions can reflect the palaver of pop lyrics or the depths of an existential search, a spiritual quest.
Peniston began writing pop lyrics already at school.
For a pop lyric to get across, it has to create some kind of immediacy -real or feigned, direct or contrived.
Simple pop lyrics about where to go are saturated in the echo chamber.
Indeed, since the 60's, the notion that everybody is - or can be - a star has been a recurrent theme in pop lyrics.
That was Dylan's significance, after all: to give pop lyrics the resonance of literature.