 Prior to the June 2014 sale of the original lyrics of " Like a Rolling Stone " , written on four sheets of hotel <unk> by Dylan in 1965 , Richard Austin , of <unk> 's , New York , said : " Before the release of Like a Rolling Stone , music charts were overrun with short and sweet love songs , many <unk> in at three minutes or less . By <unk> convention with six and a half minutes of dark , brooding poetry , Dylan rewrote the rules for pop music . " 
