“Sweetheart Like You” is one of those songs that make you say, “This is it; this is the one that captured the sound Dylan wanted during this phase of his music. For me, “Someday Baby” is the song that did the same from 1997 to 2004. I feel both songs have a certain quality to them that Dylan successfully channeled, epitomizing these different segments of his artistic life.
The line with “glass” in it is a classic onomatopoeia moment of Dylan’s, maybe his best:
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You can be known as the most beautiful woman
Who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal
Who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal
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Whatever crawling across cut glass would be like is the cr/acr/cut/ss sounds combined with Dylan singing them.
I put this up there with Paul Simon’s “sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon” or Eliot’s “pair of ragged claws scuttling across the sands of silent seas.”
No rhyming attention with this song, but a brilliant sound effect, poetic, smooth as glass.
Many Dylan fans will remember the video:
Bob Dylan's Skipping Reels of Rhyme 