The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.
Bob DylanJohnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.
Bob Dylan[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.
Bob Dylan