People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.

your problem is that wanna better word for world

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

The longer you live, the better you get.

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

I don't think there's enough guns.