People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane.