I Can’t Find My Knees

Words: 18 (7×7)

Average Length: 5.00

I just finished a fascinating (to me at least) book about the relationship between Bob Dylan and The Beatles, “Where the Music Had To Go,” by Jim Windolf.  At one point, the book discussesthe Dylan song that’s in 8A, which is one of my favorites of his.  I think the first verse is among the most evocative passages he ever wrote:

Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks
When you’re tryin’ to be so quiet
We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin’ you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there’s nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of [redacted] that conquer my mind

Later in the song, the lyrics get more obtuse, and that’s where the title of this puzzle comes from: 

See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, “Jeez, I can’t find my knees”

Come back Saturday for a full-size themed puzzle titled “What’s the Big Idea?”

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